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FAANG+Microsoft and they have a division focused on Hardware operating out of their MV office off of shoreline Blvd next to computer history museum. They hire for board level HW engineers to work on Hololens and their other HW initiatives. Check out their websites for the actual listings

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You're right: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/397873/Sr-Electrical...

The only problem is that I do not have any experience on consumer electronics, even thought I've worked with all these technologies in some level, sometime in my career. Would this be a show stopper?

  5+ years of experience designing and building electronics products with a focus on consumer and portable systems.

Don't think so. When I got into CE I came from a Medical devices background. All they are looking for is your ability to go from specs to schematics to pcb layout to overseas manufacturing builds transfer. This process though not set in stone is very common across various industries.

Thanks! This is the kind of information I needed!

I surely have gone in all these steps, just in smaller scale (few hundreds at a time). Now I quadrupled my confidence on these applications, given that I already worked on a varied of situations.

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