Job Description – Analog Electronics Engineer
Nov 2026
Level II Engineer
About G2V Optics
G2V Optics is a global leader in advanced lighting technologies. Founded in 2015 based on technology invented at the U of A, the company now provides solutions to world-leading organizations (e.g. NASA, Meta, Tesla, NREL). They use our light to power the most critical developments in solar renewable energy, advanced materials, and space exploration.
We are an agile team that functions on a startup-style culture based on quick learning, honesty and personal development, flexibility, and balance. If you want to be part of a team that’s making a global impact from right here in Edmonton, join us.
Summary
The Analog Electronics Engineer reports to the Product Development Manager. This role moves products and projects from idea to customer - whether those customers are external buyers or internal stakeholders - by owning the full lifecycle of product development work within G2V’s gate process. The Analog Electronics Engineer translates customer needs into clear requirements, manages timelines and risks with scenario awareness, validates engineering work through disciplined testing, and performs or coordinates technical work including paper models, simulations, proofs of concept, and prototypes. This role is the essential link between what customers need and what gets built. The Analog Electronics Engineer manages the engineering work in a project, identifies and mitigates risks (internal or outsourced) and exercises the technical judgment and oversight needed to deliver on G2V’s commitments.
The role depends on clear, honest communication with teammates, stakeholders, customers, and vendors. Value and trust lie at the core of our internal and external customer commitments.
The Analog Electronics specialty owns G2V’s primary product electronics. From simulation, to schematic, to electronics layout, and then to manufacturable PCBs. This role must understand how electronics design choices ripple through optical, thermal, mechanical, and manufacturability domains. The work is grounded in analog fundamentals: simulation driven validation, sound circuit calculations, and manufacturable layouts that survive optical, thermal, mechanical, and power realities of the product.
This role works within G2V’s Core Engineering function, which focuses on engineering the core components that build our products. This work emphasizes components that will be integrated into externally shipped customer products. Core Engineering encompasses a wide variety of engineering disciplines at G2V including electronics, firmware, thermal, software, and optics.
Stewardship of G2V Core Values
Every member of the G2V team is expected to embody these core values as the lived standard of how we work, communicate, and make decisions every day.
- Do the Right Thing - This is who we are when no one is watching. We do right by people and the planet. We make hard calls, tell uncomfortable truths, own mistakes, and hold each other accountable. Letting something slide is its own kind of dishonesty. G2V exists to build a better future. We leave things better than we found them.
- Sharpen the Team - This is the environment we build. We add energy instead of draining it. We assume good intent. We make it safe to be honest, take risks, and admit mistakes. We offer and receive tough feedback because the team matters more than our egos. Our confidence doesn’t depend on being right. We listen to understand, not to rebut. We get mad at problems, not people. We hold the door open for others to grow. We invest in the team we want to be a part of.
- Make it Happen - This is our engine. We don’t wait to be told what matters. We keep going when others might stop. We treat “I don’t know” as a starting point, not a destination. We act before we're certain. We learn from small, quick bets. We take ownership of outcomes. We value impact more than effort.
- Close the Loop - Everything else leads here. Integrity, team, drive - together they build something that matters. We close the loop. We seek feedback from each other and our customers. We learn equally from our successes, our failures, and our surprises. We don't solve the same problem twice. Our learning compounds, improving us as individuals, as a team, and as a company.
Primary Responsibilities
- Engineering Testing & Oversight: Write test plans and test packages linked to requirements across all development phases. Define pass/fail criteria tied to specifications. Execute or coordinate test protocols and document results. Conduct right-scoped design reviews to catch issues early. Steward the gate process: ensure gate documentation is complete and that the business is making informed go/no-go decisions.
- Engineering Design: Translate requirements into buildable designs within their discipline (electrical, optical, mechanical, software, or cross-discipline). Perform or oversee design iterations: paper models, simulations, proofs of concept, prototypes, alpha builds. Define the right architecture with well-defined interfaces. Produce or review complete design files (BOM, schematics, CAD, code) at each iteration.
- Product Management: Build and maintain user story maps and requirements documentation. Engage with customers and internal stakeholders during gate reviews from ideation through delivery. Translate feedback into actionable requirements with traceability. Maintain living project documentation that tracks desirability, feasibility, and viability.
- Project Management: Maintain the task backlog for your work. Own your estimates: give the project manager effort, duration and a confidence level for each milestone you are on. Identify and own technical risks on your work, with a mitigation and a date, and keep them current in the shared register. Think in scenarios - bring the project manager alternate paths in cost, time, and risk.
- Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Prepare release packages for vendors and internal stakeholders (requirements, specifications, design files, timeline context) - the same disciplined handoff applies whether work is going to an outside supplier or another team within G2V. Manage deliverables through budgetary approval and track against schedule. Conduct design reviews against requirements. Manage AI-assisted engineering in the same frame: specifying work, reviewing output, and validating results.
- Continuous Learning: Actively build new skills in tools, methods, and domain knowledge relevant to product development. Evaluate, adopt, and integrate new capabilities as they emerge (including AI tools and outsourcing options). Contribute to process improvements. Mentor less experienced team members. Practice version-controlled collaboration (git workflows, pull requests, releases).
Target Skills & Qualifications
The successful candidate will have:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physical Science, Computer Science, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3 years of experience in a product development environment taking electronics engineering designs from concept to volume production
- Understanding of, or strong aptitude and willingness to develop, product management fundamentals: user stories, requirements, stakeholder engagement, and maintaining the link between what’s being built and why
- Ability to manage project backlogs, estimates, and technical risks in a communicative manner to internal and external stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate uncertainty in early-stage product development
- Strong written and verbal communication skills sufficient for requirements documentation, gate reviews, and stakeholder updates
- Technical depth in electronics engineering sufficient to evaluate designs and conduct reviews.
- Simulation-driven design: Proficiency with SPICE tools (LTspice, PSpice, TINA TI) for design validation
- EDA/PCB design: schematic capture and PCB layout experience (KiCAD preferred, Altium/others acceptable)
- Design For Manufacturing (DFM): working knowledge of PCB fabrication and assembly constraints with experience resolving DFM issues with contract manufacturers
- Analog circuit fundamentals: strong applied skills in circuit calculations, practical “rule of thumb” judgement and relevant industry standards
- IPC standards: working knowledge of IPC design/workmanship standards (e.g. IPC-2221)
- Rapid prototyping and bench skills: fast iteration from simulation to prototype to test by using bench test equipment for bring-up and debugging
- Proficient in Python scripting for hardware test automation and calibration - comfortable using control APIs, binary data formats, repeatable test sequences for board validation
- Working proficiency in embedded C for ARM; able to read, modify, and debug firmware that drives mixed-signal peripherals (I2C, ADCs, PWM, SPI) and closed loop control
- Proficiency in version controlled releases and automated workflows (branches, PRs, preference for git)
Assets (Nice to Have)
- EMI/EMC mitigation and thermal management experience
- Extensive experience in a specific analog electronics field (power electronics, sensors, mixed-signal)
- Component supply-chain awareness and second-sourcing
- Exposure to regulatory certification (UL, CE)
- Experience managing vendors or outsourced engineering work
- Familiarity with user story mapping, requirements traceability, or structured product development processes
- Cross-disciplinary literacy beyond primary specialty (e.g., an EE with optics or mechanical exposure)
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows
- Project management certification or formal training
- APEGA registration: EIT or P.Eng, or eligible and actively working toward registration
Mandatory Employment Requirements
- International travel to customer sites as required, up to 10% of the role.
Why G2V?
- Opportunity to join an innovative and energetic team of professionals who are passionate about green energy and sustainability
- Competitive compensation package, including medical and dental benefits, Health and Lifestyle Spendings Account and Paid Time Off.
- G2V observes all holidays and “optional” holidays (i.e.: Family Day, August Long Weekend, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation).
- Flexible working hours when possible, including time off for medical and dental appointments
- Planned social and wellness team building events
G2V is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive and diverse workplace that values and respects every individual. Our hiring decisions are made without discrimination on the basis of mental disability, physical disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, ancestry, place of origin, religious beliefs, age, marital status, family status, or source of income. We strive to create an environment that encourages the contributions of all qualified applicants. All candidates will be considered fairly and equally, and we welcome applications from individuals of every background.
G2V Optics Inc. thanks all candidates for their interest and regrets that due to application volumes only those individuals selected for interview will be contacted.
