
Electrical Engineer V
Sunnyvale, CAContract$75–90/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Fresh Consulting is seeking an Electrical Engineer V for a six-month onsite contract in Sunnyvale. The engineer will support prototype builds and mixed reality hardware development, troubleshoot and test electrical hardware, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams. The role involves lab-based debugging and board rework, alongside independently managing multiple workstreams. Candidates should bring extensive prototype and bench electrical experience; systems-level engineering, FPGA, and consumer hardware experience are preferred.
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Fresh Consulting is a design-led, software development and hardware engineering company, offering end-to-end digital services to help companies innovate. We bring together amazing UX designers, sophisticated developers, digital strategists, and top-notch engineers to help companies create fresh experiences that connect humans, systems, and machines. We’ve been growing fast and need someone to help us continue to manage the delivery of high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
See more at freshconsulting.com. Visit freshconsulting.com/portfolio to see our project work across several industries.
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Title: Electrical Engineer V
Duration: 6-month contract
Location: Sunnyvale, CA – Onsite (5 days/week)
Benefits: Employee benefits at 100% including Medical, PTO, Holiday Pay, 401K Plan and much more!
Role:
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Partner with prototype teams to support builds that include electrical and mechanical assembly, component-level placement and rework, and bring-up with engineering teams to accelerate early concept development for mixed reality hardware
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Serve as the primary point of contact for electrical hardware testing and troubleshooting, working with other engineers to root-cause failures and define preventive and corrective actions
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Debug hardware using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers
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Perform PCBA (printed circuit board assembly) and FPC (flexible printed circuit) rework in an electrical lab environment
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams including systems engineering, architecture, product design, NPI, and research
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Execute multiple workstreams simultaneously, independently balancing and prioritizing workload to meet timeline constraints
Qualifications:
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8+ years of experience with prototypes or bench electrical assembly, bring-up, electro-mechanical integration, and electrical and mechanical debug
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Full-cycle board ownership experience
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Breadth of experience across electrical engineering domains
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Ability to read and understand schematics and locate components on PCBs using design schematics and layout viewers
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Experience setting up, supporting, and maintaining hardware in a lab environment
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Ability to generate complete assembly and test documentation for prototype assembly and test setups, and share results
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Strong creativity, verbal and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
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Critical thinker who leverages innovative ideas; detail-oriented team player
Preferred Qualifications:
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Systems-level engineering development and test experience with complex integrated electromechanical assemblies
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Experience with system-level electrical design, including circuit design, system bring-up, integration, and debug
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Experience specifying components, building schematics, completing board layouts, and assembling, testing, debugging, and integrating designs into opto-electro-mechanical systems
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Soldering experience with fine-pitch devices, 0201 or 0402 components, BGA/CSP, and power component rework
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Parts programming experience (FPGA, Flash, etc.) and ability to take scope measurements
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FPGA capability
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Wearables or small-form-factor consumer hardware background
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Firmware or scripting skills to self-serve during bring-up
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Range is $75 to $90 per hour.
Equal employment opportunity: All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, familial status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability for which a reasonable accommodation can be made or any other status protected by law. Assistance will be gladly provided upon request for any applicant with sensory or non-sensory disabilities.
Fresh Consulting is a participating E-Verify company.
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How this job compares
Set against the 10,328 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–90/hr
- California median$59–77/hr36 hourly ranges
- US median$40–55/hr402 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $82.50/hr, is 20% above the California median midpoint ($69/hr) — in the top quarter of Electrical Engineer hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,277 open Electrical Engineer jobs in California and 10,328 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril Industries80 open
- Anduril69 open
- Jacobs62 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (8,613 postings).
- Education
- 6,972 of the 10,328 open Electrical Engineer jobs (68%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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