Senior Staff Hardware Engineer

Dexcom • San Diego, CA

2d • $172,400 - $287,300 • Onsite

About The Position

The Dexcom R&D Electronics Team is a group of highly motivated and talented engineers responsible for developing industry-leading continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems that improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. Our team designs high-volume wearable medical devices with a focus on low-power electronics, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication, precision sensing technologies, reliability, and manufacturability. We support existing commercial products, drive continuous product improvements, and develop next-generation technologies that continue to expand the capabilities of glucose sensing and wearable medical devices. This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, uncovering system-level behavior through data, and influencing the design of life-changing medical technologies. As a senior technical leader within the Electronics Characterization Team, you will help define characterization strategies, drive engineering decisions, and ensure robust product performance from concept through commercialization.

Requirements

• Recognized as a technical leader with extensive experience in electrical system characterization, validation, debug, and root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing complex test strategies, design verification plans, and characterization studies for electronic products.
• Strong hands-on laboratory expertise using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, current analyzers, and other advanced electronic test equipment.
• Significant experience troubleshooting mixed-signal electronic systems, including analog, digital, power, wireless, and sensing technologies.
• Highly proficient in experimental design, statistical analysis, and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and can effectively present technical findings to engineers, cross-functional stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Experience supporting products throughout the full product lifecycle, including new product development, design verification, commercialization, and sustaining engineering.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering decisions without direct authority.
• Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams improve technical rigor, problem-solving approaches, and engineering best practices.
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 13+ years related experience or a Master’s degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 5+ years of experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing FDA-regulated medical devices and working within design control environments.
• Experience with Design for Reliability (DFR), Design for Test (DFT), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), and Design for Cost (DFC) methodologies for high-volume products.
• Experience with wearable electronics, battery-powered devices, wireless communication systems, and high-volume consumer or medical products.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple product development programs, influencing engineering decisions and helping ensure robust product performance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define and execute characterization strategies, design verification activities, and test methodologies that establish product performance, reliability, and design margins across complex wearable medical device systems.
• Develop comprehensive test plans, characterization frameworks, and experimental protocols to evaluate analog, digital, wireless, sensing, and power management subsystems.
• Lead complex root cause investigations and failure analysis efforts spanning product development, manufacturing, reliability testing, and post-market performance.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, systems, quality, reliability, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to drive effective technical solutions.
• Analyze large data sets, identify key insights, and provide data-driven recommendations that influence product design and business decisions.
• Support sustaining engineering activities for commercial products, including issue investigation, corrective actions, risk assessments, and design improvements.
• Participate in architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical risk assessments, helping improve reliability, manufacturability, testability, and overall product quality.
• Champion engineering best practices, test automation, and continuous improvement initiatives that increase team efficiency and product robustness.
• Serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, helping develop junior engineers while fostering engineering excellence across the organization.

Benefits

• A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior