What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Electrical Engineer position at Motion Recruitment?
A stealth-stage neurotechnology startup based in Chicago is hiring a Founding Engineer to help build a first-of-its-kind wearable system focused on real-time brainwave monitoring and predictive health insights. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape both the core technology and the long-term technical direction of a mission-driven company developing next-generation medical hardware and intelligent software.
We’re looking for a Founding Electrical Engineer to help design and build the core hardware behind a next generation neurotechnology platform. You’ll own electrical design from early prototypes through production-ready systems, working hands-on with sensors, wireless communication, and signal processing. This is a true founding role with real technical ownership and influence over product direction.
Required Skills & Experience
We’re looking for a Founding Electrical Engineer to help design and build the core hardware behind a next generation neurotechnology platform. You’ll own electrical design from early prototypes through production-ready systems, working hands-on with sensors, wireless communication, and signal processing. This is a true founding role with real technical ownership and influence over product direction.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3 years of professional Electrical Engineering experience (industry experience strongly preferred)
- Hands-on experience designing PCBs using KiCad and/or Altium
- Experience working with BLE-enabled microcontrollers
- Strong understanding of SPI communication, ADCs, and signal processing fundamentals
- Ability to independently own hardware designs from concept through bring-up and debugging
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
- Firmware development experience, especially with Nordic Dev Kits and Zephyr RTOS
- Experience with EEG or other bio-signal acquisition and processing
- Low-noise analog design experience
- Exposure to wearable, medical, or sensor-heavy devices
- Experience supporting prototype testing and early manufacturing runs
- Tech Breakdown
- 40% PCB design, schematic capture, and layout
- 25% Hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation
- 20% Signal processing, ADC integration, and performance optimization
- 15% Cross-functional collaboration with firmware and software engineers
- Daily Responsibilities
- 70% Hands On Hardware Development
- 10% Technical Planning and Design Ownership
- 20% Team Collaboration and Integration
- Remote or Hybrid Work Flexibility (role-dependent)
- Founding-level technical ownership
- Direct impact on product direction
- Casual, execution-focused startup culture