Responsibilities

• Build Interesting Projects
• A significant portion of your time will be spent hands-on with hardware, building projects that demonstrate the capabilities and possibilities of SparkFun products.
• This includes, but is not limited to:
• Combining multiple products into compelling, useful applications
• Quickly prototyping ideas and iterating until they work
• Exploring new technologies, sensors, microcontrollers, communication protocols, and development platforms
• Creating projects that range from approachable beginner builds to more advanced technical applications
• Thinking strategically about how SparkFun products can work together to solve problems, demonstrate interesting applications, and introduce our audience to products they may not have otherwise considered
• Let's get beyond blinking an LED and make something worth showing people.
• You'll work closely with the Marketing team to identify products and projects with the potential to perform across our channels and grow our audience. You'll then turn those ideas into reality, creating the projects and demonstrations that fuel our video, photography, social, SEO, email, and product marketing efforts.

Requirements

• Coding with Arduino and MicroPython
• Microcontrollers and development boards
• Connecting projects to IoT and other wireless technologies
• Sensors and peripherals
• Basic electronics and circuit design
• Reading datasheets and technical documentation
• Debugging hardware and software
• You don’t need to be an expert in everything on this list. We’re much more interested in someone who can quickly learn and build rather than someone who checks every box.
• Experience with the following technologies is highly encouraged:
• ESP32

Preferred

• ESP32
• BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, or other communications technologies
• Robotics
• Computer vision
• Machine learning / edge AI
• GNSS/GPS
• Raspberry Pi
• 3D printing or fabrication

Benefits

• Benefits of Being SparkFun's Creative & Technical Content Specialist
• You'll have access to our entire catalog of electronics, tools, development boards, sensors, and technologies. This includes your own workstation in the office, surrounded by everything you need to keep projects moving. Literally, anything you want to get hands-on with is at your disposal.
• You'll have the opportunity to work closely with the engineers who build our products, giving you a direct connection to the people who know the technology best and helping you better understand the capabilities of the products you'll be working with.
• You'll have the freedom to experiment, build fun things, fail, try again, and turn successful experiments into content that reaches a large and engaged community.
• You'll be part of a tight-knit, fast-paced Marketing team whose job is to make sure the things you build actually get seen.
• General Benefits Of Working At SparkFun
• At SparkFun, we ask a lot of our employees, and that's why we give so much in return. Here are just some of the benefits:
• - Competitive salary (salary range for this position starts at $70,000 per year)
• - Medical/dental/vision plan
• - Matching 401(k)