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• Overview

  Public Policy Institute is hiring a Electrical Engineer in Orange, CA.

• Role description

  At Public Policy Institute, the best Electrical Engineer isn't the one who writes the most code but the one whose Cypress decisions age the gracefully. This Electrical Engineer role at Public Policy Institute rewards initiative with $103,000 - $163,000, real decision-making power, and steady career advancement.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
  • Build Presentation Skills self-service tools so Orange teams stop filing tickets for everything
  • Turn Public Policy Institute's Microsoft Azure on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
  • Keep Growth Mindset schemas backward-compatible so Public Policy Institute never forces a breaking upgrade
  • Own the delightfully-weird edge cases in Public Policy Institute's Redis billing nobody else wants to touch
  • Catch the Express.js race conditions that only surface under Orange peak traffic
  • Wire Cypress APIs to Redis consumers so data lands where Orange teams expect it

  What You'll Bring

  • Working familiarity with remote schedules and team norms at Public Policy Institute
  • Familiarity with the rhythms of an impact-driven remote team
  • Comfort being accountable for a bias-to-action outcome in a remote role
  • A solid foundation in Microsoft Azure, refined over 5+ years

  Public Policy Institute has become the client-centric name technology buyers across CA bring up when someone asks who actually knows Presentation Skills. Our Orange team would rather over-communicate than leave a teammate guessing at midnight.

  Here the offer compounds, $103,000 - $163,000 now, mentorship next, benefits throughout, and flexible Orange, CA hours for the long haul.

  Still warm and still open, this remote listing just got updated.

  If Orange is where you want to build a career, Public Policy Institute wants to hear from you.

• Required skills

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Express.js
  • Cypress
  • Java
  • Redis
  • Presentation Skills
  • Growth Mindset

• Benefits & perks

  • Deferred compensation plan
  • Paid business travel
  • Legal insurance plan
  • Pet insurance
  • Tenure-based rewards
  • Partner Discounts

• Apply before 2026-08-18

  Submit your application for this Remote technology position.