Embedded Hardware Development Engineer

About the role

Direct4.me, a Slovenian company developing autonomous smart parcel lockers, is looking for an Embedded Hardware Development Engineer to join its development team in Ljubljana. The role focuses on designing and improving the electronic assemblies behind the products, especially power supplies, battery chargers and power systems. It is a full-time position within a permanent employment arrangement.

Key responsibilities

• Circuit design and component selection: design analogue and digital circuits, select components, prepare and maintain bills of materials, and draw schematics and PCBs or work with PCB layout colleagues.
• Prototypes and performance: build, bring up, test and debug prototypes, measure and analyse results, and optimise circuits and power-system performance, evaluating component substitutions for reliability, availability and cost.
• Integration and compliance: align hardware with product requirements, coordinate with software, firmware and mechanical engineers, maintain technical documentation, and help resolve safety and EMC/EMI issues and product certification.
• Industrialisation: support the transfer of new products into production, support manufacturing partners, and investigate production and product issues to improve existing designs.

Required profile

• Relevant technical education in electrical engineering, electronics, mechatronics or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of electronic components, circuits and their operating principles, and of PCB technologies and electronics manufacturing fundamentals.
• Ability to link circuit-level decisions with the requirements of the complete product.
• Innovative, systematic and precise approach, initiative, proactivity and responsibility for quality.
• Good working command of English; the role is based in Ljubljana.

Required skills

• Altium Designer or a comparable electronic design environment.
• Circuit simulation tools such as Multisim or LTspice.
• Experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, laboratory power supplies and other measurement equipment.
• Knowledge of EMC/EMI, product safety, standards and certification is an advantage.

What we offer

• A development role at the heart of a rapidly growing European technology company, with involvement across the full product lifecycle.
• Competitive compensation linked to performance and a flexible working environment.
• Continuous professional development through projects, internal knowledge sharing and external training.
• Permanent employment with a three-to-six-month probation period.