# Electronic Engineer / Electronic Design Engineer

Introduction Maxwell+Spark is a multinational Greentech company with primary offices in Durban, South Africa, and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. We help industrial users reduce energy costs and carbon emissions through lithium-ion energy storage and power electronics. We’re looking for an Electronic Engineer to join our multidisciplinary engineering team in Durban. You’ll design, develop and support electronics for our battery systems, working closely with Product Owners and colleagues across engineering, fabrication and production. You’ll be supported by a senior engineer and contribute across the product lifecycle, from early design through testing, certification and continuous improvement. Duties & Responsibilities What you’ll do: Design circuits, schematics and PCB layouts for battery products and components. Develop embedded firmware for microcontroller-based systems. Build, test and troubleshoot prototypes; document results and iterate designs. Support product certification activities, including UL 2580, UL 583 and CE, by preparing test evidence and technical documentation. Work with fabrication and production teams to support prototype builds and resolve design issu

- **Id**: 3633453
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/maxwell-and-spark-electronic-engineer-electronic-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Durban, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T11:57:02Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-02T11:57:02Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 7
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- **Description chars**: 2841
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- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4496111
- **Name**: Maxwell and Spark
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/maxwell-and-spark>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Battery Management Systems** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T20:26:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: seen:6, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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