Job Description
Electrical Engineer - Quality Assurance
Department: Clean Cooking
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Kenya
Job Location: Nairobi, kenya
About The Role:
Sun King is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join the Clean Cooking Quality Assurance (QA) team and take ownership of the testing, validation, and performance monitoring of electronic and electromechanical systems used in clean cooking products, including devices that enable pay-as-you-go access to LPG.
The role will work closely with the R&D, Firmware, QA, and Manufacturing teams to ensure devices are thoroughly validated before release and continue to perform reliably across production environments and real-world deployments.
What you would be expected to do:
- Support testing, validation, and troubleshooting of the electronics and electromechanical hardware used in clean cooking products, such as control devices, sensors, and communication modules.
- Conduct firmware feature upgrade testing and pre-release validations for clean cooking products.
- Investigate and diagnose hardware and firmware faults, documenting findings clearly for internal teams.
- Perform QA testing of software used on manufacturing test stations.
- Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and inspection checklists for hardware and firmware releases.
- Support field inspection activities, including occasional on-site hardware checks and performance data collection.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- A Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechatronics Engineering.
- 1–3 years of experience working with embedded systems, electronic hardware, or firmware testing.
- Experience reading printed circuit board (PCB) schematics and layouts.
- Hands-on experience testing both physical hardware and embedded firmware or software.
- Familiarity with embedded systems and microcontrollers (e.g., ESP32, Arduino, Raspberry Pi).
- Familiarity with communication protocols, including but not limited to UART, I²C, and SPI.
- Proficiency in Python for scripting, test automation, or data evaluation.
- Comfortable using standard lab equipment, including multimeters, bench power supplies, and oscilloscopes.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with high attention to detail.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively across teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Swahili.
- Experience with IoT products or connected device ecosystems.
- Experience with soldering, hardware rework, or PCB-level diagnostics.
- Familiarity with QA management tools or defect tracking systems (e.g., Jira, TestRail).
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of
- innovation and making a profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from
- different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager,
- and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure
every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires
conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort,
and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color,
gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
