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Location: Remote - Prefer candidate located in the Greater Los Angeles Area, CA
Background Check Requirement
As part of our hiring process, Frontline Wildfire Defense conducts comprehensive background checks for all new hires. These checks typically cover the past 7–10 years and may include employment and education verification. For roles that require work in the field, driving record verification is also required. Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of these background checks.
About Frontline Wildfire Defense
Founded in 2017, Frontline developed the first fully integrated wildfire defense system to stop the leading cause of home loss in wildfires: ember-driven ignition. The system combines exterior sprinklers, full-coverage design, and connected software for remote monitoring and response, allowing homes to protect themselves long after families evacuate or infrastructure fails.
Proven effective during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, 96% of homes with Frontline systems survived. That success has earned top industry recognition, including Frontline being recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 in the Green Tech category and receiving the PCBC Gold Nugget Award for “Most Innovative Housing Concept” and the Best of IBS Award for “Best Home Technology.”
As wildfires grow hotter and more frequent, our vision is to give people the tools and strategies to live safely with fire. We’re building a mission-driven team creating real-world solutions in wildfire safety and climate tech.
About This Opportunity
As an Electromechanical Engineer , you’ll design, test, and validate the physical systems that make Frontline’s wildfire defense network reliable, manufacturable, and ready for large-scale deployment. You will own detailed mechanical and electrical integration work - from early concept development through release to production.
This role will focus on advancing design-for-manufacturability (DFx), cost-down initiatives, and business continuity improvements, ensuring we maintain reliability and scalability across our installed base. You’ll be hands-on in both CAD and ECAD environments, collaborating with electrical, software, and manufacturing partners to bring new designs and sustaining improvements to life.
Key Responsibilities
Design and document electromechanical assemblies, harnesses, and sub-systems using SolidWorks and ECAD tools (Altium, OrCAD, or similar).
Support new product introduction (NPI) and sustaining engineering initiatives-including cost reduction, supplier transitions, and component requalification.
Own DFx and reliability improvements, developing test plans and qualification methods that ensure robustness in outdoor and field environments.
Update and maintain mechanical and electrical documentation - 3D models, 2D drawings, wiring diagrams, and BOMs - through PDM, PLM and ERP systems.
Collaborate with contract manufacturers and suppliers to validate production processes, tolerances, and assembly workflows.
Work cross-functionally with software, product, and field operations to integrate new sensors, pumps, and controller designs into the system architecture.
Conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions for field and production issues, driving permanent fixes through documentation and process updates.
Prototype and test components and sub-systems in-house; contribute to lab setup, instrumentation, and test automation as needed.
Qualifications
Must-Have:
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Mechatronics Engineering (or equivalent experience).
3–6 years of hands-on experience developing and releasing electromechanical systems to production.
Proficiency in SolidWorks (or equivalent 3D CAD) for design and drawing creation.
Experience with ECAD tools (Altium, OrCAD, KiCad, etc.) for PCB or harness design review.
Working knowledge…