Responsibilities

• Build Interesting Projects
• 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.
• Document & Share
• The projects you build need to be more than something that works. You'll turn successful projects into clear, repeatable, shareable resources that others can understand, recreate, and build upon.
• You'll be responsible for capturing the technical details behind your projects, including:

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
• Experience with the following technologies is highly encouraged:
• ESP32
• BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, or other communications technologies

Preferred

• Curiosity is critical to this role.
• You should be the kind of person who sees a new sensor, development board, or technology and immediately starts wondering what you could build with it.
• You should naturally want to experiment, ask "what if?", solve problems, and turn interesting ideas into things people can actually build.
• Most importantly, you should care about making technology approachable. The goal isn't simply to build the most technically impressive project possible — it's to build something that makes someone think, "I could build that."

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision plan
• Matching 401(k)
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• A casual dress code for you
• Dogs - yes, we bring dogs to work
• Full gym with climbing wall. If that’s not your style we offer a monthly gym stipend
• We have a great employee discount and opportunities to create and share content with the SparkFun community
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid time to volunteer
• EcoPass (public transportation pass)