{"id":1485084,"url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-staff-engineer-electronics-architect","title":"Staff Engineer, Electronics Architect","company":{"id":1935342,"name":"Salt","domain":"welovesalt.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/welovesalt","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":64,"open_postings":1440,"ghost_share":0.608,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":138000,"max_usd":252000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":324},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Modularization","optional":false},{"name":"Draw.io","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-04-22T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-04-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T22:22:26Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":163,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":162},"description":"Back to all jobs\nApplications are now closed.\nStaff Engineer, Electronics Architect\nRef: JO-2603-359854\nManufacturing and Production \n\n1,000 - 4,999 Employee \n\nEnvironment:\n\nHybrid \n\nContract Type:\n\nPermanent \n\nStarts:\n\n2026-06-01 \n\nSenior Engineer (Electronics)\n Austin, TX (Hybrid)\n Position Summary:\nThe Senior Engineer (Electronics) serves as the subject matter expert and technical authority for system-level electronic architecture across all dispensers and connected hardware platforms. This role is responsible for defining, maintaining, and evolving the electronic architecture that supports dispensers, controllers, pedestals, chargers, edge devices, switches, and other components within the portfolio. The Staff Engineer ensures all components work cohesively, meet specifications, maintain compatibility, and scale effectively across regional and global product lines.\nThis position requires close collaboration with Software and Firmware Architects to ensure seamless hardware-software integration, alignment on new component designs, and consistent architectural principles. The System Architect/Staff Engineer will own and maintain comprehensive system diagrams, interface definitions, and electrical architecture documentation that guide development teams across the engineering organization.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nDefine, maintain, and evolve the end-to-end electronics architecture across all product platforms (dispensers, controllers, pedestals, chargers, edge devices, switches), including global and North American variants.\nDevelop and manage system-level documentation such as architecture diagrams, interface maps, compatibility matrices, and compliance requirements (safety, regulatory, EMC, environmental, payment certifications).\nLead cross-functional alignment with Electronics, Firmware, and Software teams to ensure cohesive system design, clear interfaces, defined behaviors, and seamless integration of components.\nEvaluate system performance, limitations, interoperability, and field issues; collaborate with Customer Support and Operations to drive architectural improvements for reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.\nPartner with Product Management to align architecture with business needs, feature roadmaps, regional requirements, and legacy considerations, including global vs. North American variations.\nDrive innovation by introducing new technologies, components, and platforms while supporting platform strategy through harmonization, modularization, scalability, reuse, and cost efficiency.\nProvide technical leadership through system design reviews, mentorship, and guidance-promoting best practices, standardization, accountability, and strong decision-making across multidisciplinary teams.\nQualification Requirements:\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, or Computer Engineering required; Master’s degree preferred.\n8+ years of experience in electronics engineering, embedded systems, or hardware architecture.\nDeep understanding of electronic system design, component selection, embedded interfaces, and system integration.\nExperience developing architecture diagrams, interface definitions, and system-level documentation.\nStrong understanding of communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, USB, wireless).\nProven ability to collaborate with Firmware and Software teams on system-level behaviors and architecture.\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to assess limitations, evaluate risks, and propose technical solutions.\nExperience with global product platforms and regional variations preferred.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with cross-domain systems including mechanical, power electronics, and embedded firmware.\nKnowledge of architectural modeling tools or diagramming platforms (e.g., Visio, Draw.io, Enterprise Architect).\nExperience with high-level system modeling, interface definition, or platform architecture development.\nFamiliarity with regulatory and certification processes (EMC, UL, PCI, safety).\nExperience supporting field issues, root cause analysis, or operations/manufacturing teams.\nPrior involvement in multi-region or global engineering organizations.\nSalt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4259,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T22:11:27Z"}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.216,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":162,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:31","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","ghost","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-staff-engineer-electronics-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-staff-engineer-electronics-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T02:33:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3447,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1553,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}