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BuffaloGrid is looking for a senior electronic design engineer, who is interested in design for developing countries.
BuffaloGrid makes solar mobile phone chargers with a twist: our solar-power units are provided for free to rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa and India, and people buy a phone charge by sending it a text message. In the future, our systems will bring other services like internet, radio and screens.
Working with BuffaloGrid offers a unique opportunity to design for the bottom billion market, with an award winning team of people who are changing the world a little.
You will be responsible for the electronic development of our units, both from a technical perspective and a user perspective. This will include field visits to our deployment sites and management of production with manufacturers.
Technical skills:
Previous experience of start-to-finish electronic design (prototyping, schematic, board layout, connections, system wiring, safety, test procedures, manufacturing)
Embedded programming experience (embedded Node.js is a bonus, excellent C/C++ expected as a minimum)
Proven ability to create fast-turnaround prototypes
Experience with GSM modems and cellular communication, preferably with at least one cellular product already on the market
A good understanding of MPPT systems and SMPS design in general
Must be an experienced Linux user
Business experience:
Flexible approach to rapidly changing development environments
Strong contributor to technical strategy and an understanding of how this links to commercial strategy
Experience working in a small company is highly desirable
If you are the right person, we are flexible about whether you are full or part-time
Company Description
BuffaloGrid's highly experienced design and engineering team is backed by the world leading Royal College of Art’s Innovation Incubator, with offices in the new Dyson Building in Battersea, London. Committed angel investors have also funded the business. Its pioneering, award winning technology has been tested in Uganda in 2013, initial deployments have started in India in 2014 and we are now working towards deployments in another 2 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 . The BuffaloGrid solution will transform lives across the off grid world by deploying a sustainable and scalable business model that provides mobile off-grid power units to a local distribution network that will reach out to remote areas starved of power.