About us:

We’re Impulse. We’re a team of engineers, designers and innovators based in San Francisco who believe making good decisions for your home and the environment should not come at a cost to your lifestyle. We’re dedicated to building delightful, high-performance products for everyday needs that enable rewarding, long-term, scalable solutions for whole-home electrification.

We’re looking for individuals excited to join an early-stage, VC-backed growing company with powerful aspirations to make positive change in a major industry - come build with us!

What you’ll be doing:

- Developing next generation hardware products at a strongly backed, growing company with a powerful vision of the future that we can build together.

- Building long-term architectures that will have impact beyond our first products.

 - Working closely with the whole team during product definition and development.

 - Building first-in-class prototypes. 

 - Bringing up production-intent devices.

 - Shepherding volume manufacturing for a new product category.

Who you are:

 - Able to cross technology domains to produce clever solutions that scale.

 - Experienced in shipping electrical hardware from first prototypes to volume production, particularly in consumer, energy, or automotive domains.

 - Experience with modern SoCs, including selection, power system design, and associated system engineering implications.

 - Comfortable using schematic capture and layout tools to design high performance PCBs.

 - Experienced working with colleagues and external partners to develop constraints and specifications collaboratively - software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing and others.

 - Excited about being able to operate with substantial freedom.

What you have:

- Engineering degree or related experience in volume electrical hardware.

 - A deep familiarity with embedded systems.

- Track record of delivering designs and products on time, on budget, complete and correct.

- History of successful engagements with external design and manufacturing partners.

What’s in it for you:

- Meaningful equity in a fast-moving company with top investors

- Generous benefits including health, vision, dental, and fitness.

- Help define culture for what will be a diverse, inclusive, and global team.

We are growing quickly so if you’re interested in joining us but don’t see a job that fits what you’re looking for or if your experience doesn’t quite check all the boxes, please feel free to reach out - we’re happy to connect.

Impulse is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and prohibit discrimination and harassment. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone feels safe and welcome.