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Chargepoint INC

Staff Hardware Engineer

US-CA-Campbell-254 Posted today

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Sponsorship verdict

Sponsorship possible

One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 16 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
  • What Chargepoint INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Hardware Design Engineer” (Mechanical Engineers) in CA: $132k–$132k, median $132k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 16 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
What Chargepoint INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
1 certified filing for “Senior Hardware Design Engineer” (Mechanical Engineers) in CA: $132k–$132k, median $132k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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About the role

About Us With electric vehicles expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040, electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) is at the center of this revolution, powering one of the world’s leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware, software and mobile solutions for every charging need across North America and Europe. We bring together drivers, businesses, automakers, policymakers, utilities and other stakeholders to make e-mobility a global reality. Since our founding in 2007, ChargePoint has focused solely on making the transition to electric easy for businesses, fleets and drivers. ChargePoint offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an all-electric future and a trillion-dollar market. At ChargePoint, we foster a positive and productive work environment by committing to live our values of Be Courageous, Charge Together, Love our Customers, Operate with Openness, and Relentlessly Pursue Awesome. These values guide how we show up every day, align, and work together to build a brighter future for all of us. Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go, in any context, for generations to come. Reports To Director, Product Engineering Role Summary At ChargePoint, we are building the future of electric mobility. As a Staff Hardware Engineer, you will serve as a key technical leader shaping the architecture and system-wide design of our next-generation EV charging hardware. You will tackle our most complex electrical engineering challenges, influencing hardware roadmaps and driving innovations that scale across North America and Europe. What You Will Be Doing You will own the system-level electrical architecture and lead the design of advanced PCBA solutions across our product portfolio. Acting as a domain expert, you will set technical direction, evaluate complex tradeoffs, and guide systems from conceptual block diagrams through to volume manufacturing. In your first 6–12 months, you will establish key architectural patterns, partner with cross-functional leadership (software, mechanical, thermal), and mentor engineering teams to elevate our hardware reliability and feature integration. What You Will Bring to ChargePoint • Architect and own the system-level electrical design and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) strategies for next-generation charging platforms. • Lead the development of complex board-level architectures, defining block diagrams, sub-components, and circuit-level implementations. • Drive technical direction for the integration of embedded processors, high-speed interfaces, power electronics, analog sensing, and motor control. • Partner with cross-functional leadership across software, mechanical, and thermal domains to define system boundaries and seamless integration strategies. • Optimize global hardware designs for extreme reliability, cost-efficiency at scale, and advanced feature capabilities. • Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of critical systems, from discrete circuit conceptualization to volume manufacturing and global deployment. • Establish rigorous testing, validation, and documentation standards to ensure robust performance and margin-to-limits across the engineering org. • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level hardware engineers, elevating the overall technical bar and design practices of the team. • Evaluate and select emerging hardware technologies, tools, and components to keep ChargePoint at the forefront of the EV industry. • Resolve the most complex system-level hardware escalations and field deployment challenges. Requirements • 8-12 years of experience engineering and architecting

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