Hardware Engineer - job 1 of 2

Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity 

Flock is looking for an experienced Hardware Engineer to add to our Hardware Engineering design team. This team is responsible for all physical design, testing, and hardware product delivery to manufacturing. This role will make an outsized impact by contributing to the electrical design of the Flock Safety product suite and its associated peripheral components. You will work closely with internal and external engineering teams to deliver high quality, mission critical electronics. 

The Skillset 

• BSEE with 5+ years of industry experience

• PCB Circuit Design production experience from product level requirements, including schematic capture, component placement, libraries, layout, and simulation

• Familiarity with Altium Designer

• Familiarity with mobile electronic product architectures and main components, such as SoCs, SOMs, MCUs. Familiarity with associated memory interfaces such as DDR, UFS/eMMC

• Design familiarity of efficient mobile power delivery networks including switching and linear DC-DC converters

• Knowledge of standard peripheral interfaces, such as USB3.1 / 2.0, I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, etc..

• Understanding of SerDes and common high-speed peripheral interfaces (USB/USB-PD, PCIe, HDMI, MIPI CSI/DSI, etc..)

• Familiarity with IoT & wireless interfaces (4G/5G MIMO, Wifi/BLE MIMO, GNSS/GPS, associated antennas), including RF implementation and awareness

• Familiarity with consumer electronics certification standards such as FCC, UL, and PTCRB

• Additional relevant technology concepts may include:

  • Sensors (CMOS image sensor, MEMS, motion, light, microphone)

  • ML ASICs

  • Audio DSPs

  • ADCs

  • Industrial solar panels

  • MPPT-tracking charge controllers

  • Custom battery packs (chemistry and BMS)

  • AC/DC converters

• Experience with SI/PI board-level verification and product-level validation plan creation and execution for EVT, DVT, PVT design phases

• Hands-on experience with PCB/Electronic system bring-up, debugging, and functional verification

• Experienced in using testing and validation lab equipment: Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, Function Generaters, E-loads, logging, thermal chambers, Spectrum Analyzers, etc..

• High level familiarity with software engineering principles for IOT devices

• Experience working cross functionally with power, mechanical, firmware, software, and cloud teams during product development

• Motivated and result-driven team player with strong communication skills, demonstrable sense of ownership

• Comfortable and excited to work in a start-up environment

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a Hardware Engineer with Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Get acquainted with the company, the team, the mission, and the product/customer experience

• Conduct a dive of shipping and planned product architecture

• Observe the Flock Culture as it applies to your team and your day to day experience

• Contribute immediately and incrementally to an active design, test, or debug investigation

The First 60 Days 

• Completely understand the high level electrical architecture of the existing Flock ecosystem. Recognize its role in our highly vertical customer offering.

• Become involved in ongoing product design effort as needed - join project standups and related channels to observe Flock’s design methodology.

• Make progress with ongoing product validation efforts - write or execute functional and/or performance tests on an active EVT/DVT/MB dev

90 Days & Beyond 

• Become a true and independent DRI (Dedicated Responsible Individual) within the team, having full ownership of a design workstream, and impacting decision making and cross-functional implementation/productization plans

• Demonstrate full proficiency of all Flock development tools and demonstrate awareness of all Flock development processes.

• Become highly available and communicative as a resource to your immediate team and cross functional stakeholders

• Assume full ownership and responsibility of outcomes to the business - your impact at Flock will strongly influence the health of the business, positive outcomes to customers, and real-time reduction in societal crime.

The Interview Process 

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way. 

1. Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are. 

2. The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field. 

3. The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day. Expect to defend all relevant design work in your resume.

4. The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more. 

The Perks 

💰Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $105,000-$145,000 as well as stock options

🌴Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.

⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match. 

👪Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. In 2024, Flock will provide a $ 50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace.

💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support 

💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions. 

💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.

🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies. 

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at careers@flocksafety.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock Safety, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.