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Capgemini Invent / Synapse - Electrical Engineering Architect

San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 May 2026

💰 $200,000/yr($150,000/yr – $200,000/yr)

About the role

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Synapse, a part of Capgemini Invent, is a product development consultancy working with the world’s most ambitious companies to envision, create, and launch breakthrough AI-powered intelligent products. Sitting at the intersection of hardware, embedded systems, and AI, we specialize in engineering-led innovation that transforms business and unlocks entirely new market categories. Join an innovation team at our global hub in San Francisco or at our Seattle office. We bring new human-centered products to market through close collaboration across three capability units: Synapse, frog, and AIE.

Your Role

If you aim to lead a team of electrical engineers on multidisciplinary projects to conceive, architect, design, and build innovative products and systems for top-tier clients, Synapse's Electrical Engineering team is interested in talking to you. Your primary focus would be bringing our client’s ambitions to life by guiding programs from end to end, including system architecture definition, hardware platform selection, and technical risk management.

In this role, you would be progressing product development through multiple project phases, starting with development of product requirements, system-level architecture, block diagrams, and interface definitions, to prototyping, electronics design iterations, rigorous troubleshooting, hands on board bring-up, and performance verification, resulting in mature product designs ready for mass production.

Scope, estimate, and present project proposals directly to clients in response to RFPs in conjunction with sales and engineering teams, including ideation of technical approaches, architecture tradeoffs, and development timelines.
Design, build, test, and deliver innovative, high quality electronics product designs, including analog/mixed-signal and digital circuits, embedded systems, power management, and wireless connectivity.
Mentor and develop top talent within Synapse electrical engineering department, including guidance on best practices in circuit design and simulation, PCB layout, design for manufacturability (DFM), and developing AI powered process enhancements
Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to successfully deliver project outcomes; meet milestones and deadlines in collaboration with firmware, mechanical, and industrial design teams.
Serve as a senior client advisor, translating complex engineering considerations into clear business impacts and actionable recommendations.
Partner with Invent and Synapse leadership to build thought leadership, reusable assets, and AI‑enabled delivery methods that strengthen our market position.

Qualifications & Experience

In order to thrive as an Electrical Engineering Architect at Synapse, you should possess effective verbal and written communication skills, and demonstrate excellent technical project planning and task delegation abilities. You are comfortable working in ambiguity, and you instill confidence in client engineering and leadership teams. You have experience successfully architecting and implementing electronics products from beginning to end. You have embraced the use of AI to improve your delivery and output. You have a talent for leading teams while maintaining the ability to keep calm and laugh when things don’t go as planned.

Required skills:

Experience scoping, estimating level of effort, proposing, selling, and giving technical presentations to prospective and existing clients
Track record of designing, developing, testing, documenting, and delivering custom electronic assemblies using EDA and simulation tools and electronics lab equipment, including schematic capture, simulation, PCB layout, PCBA bringup, debugging, rework, and performance verification.
Ability to lead a team of engineers to success including risk mitigation, task management, scheduling, design reviews, root-cause analysis, and iterative hardware design cycles, using AI tools to improve efficiency and quality of execution.
Breadth of experience designing with a wide range of technologies and interfaces such as SOCs, MCUs, DDR, ethernet, Bluetooth, WiFi, UWB, LTE, NFC, batteries, motors, cameras, amplifiers, filters, IMUs, antennae