Join Our Team!
Since 2003, SparkFun has been helping turn ideas into reality – whether you’re creating a smart weather station, exploring the frontier of machine learning, building a robot for school or prototyping your first (or tenth) product.
No matter your vision or skill level, our open source components, resources and online tutorials are designed to broaden access to innovative technology and make the road to a finished project shorter.
Current Openings
How do we do it?
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Get emerging tech into the hands of the masses - the more people using it, the more brilliant ideas rise to the surface
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Design and manufacture dev boards and ecosystems that support rapid prototyping and save major time
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Develop stellar documentation for the products we produce - from tutorials, to sample code, to videos...our GitHub repository is second to none
Why Work At SparkFun?
Become Part of an Amazing Culture
We take a holistic view of every person at SparkFun - we are humans, not just employees.
Support Global Innovation
Our products are used around the world to fuel cutting-edge research and development (we’re even on Mars!).
Take Advantage of Top Benefits
We do our best to provide benefits to enhance life outside of SparkFun.
Our Teams
Every person at SparkFun impacts the strategy and our ability to be successful. It’s really not quite this simple, but...
Design It
Engineering & Product Services:
Ideate, Design, and Test Products
Build It
Production: Assemble and Kit Product Using Advanced Manufacturing Machines and Processes
Supply Chain: Find and buy parts for everything we build or sell
Share It
Sales, Marketing, Business Development: Share SparkFun products, services, and news with the world
Ship It
Warehouse & Shipping: Receive, Shelve, Pick, Package and Ship Products
Support It
Technical and Customer Support: Ensure people have a great experience and can use our products
Keep the Lights On
Software and IT: Literally -- they ensure the lights are on; make sure software and hardware is up and running; build the software side of products; and keep our website live
HQ: From finance to human resources to data analysis to facilities -- these folks support every team and make sure SparkFun is making smart decisions
Benefits
Just some of the benefits and perks we provide*:
- Matching 401k Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- SparkFun contribution to insurance
- Life & Disability insurance
- Paid time and/or flexible time off
- New-hire tour with the founder
- Flexible schedules
- Fun employee gatherings - barbecues,
summer party, anniversary party... - Dogs - yes, we bring dogs to work
- Full gym with climbing wall
- EcoPass
- $250 continuing education stipend
- Choose: monthly gym stipend or onsite massage or onsite yoga
- Possibility to create and share content with the SparkFun community
- Paid time to volunteer
- Employee discount
*Details and final Benefits and Perks Summary to be shared during the application process
By The Numbers
Nearly 13 Million Widgets Built
~100 Employees Over 500K Social Followers
Shipping to ~190 Countries
~25 Dogs in the Building Daily
672 Solar Modules on our Roof
75+ New Original Products Released Every Year
A History Of Innovation
For nearly 20 years, SparkFun has been based on a voracious curiosity about new technology, a dedication to solving technical problems, and a commitment to making technology as easy as possible to use.
From research, to ideation, to design, to production our engineering team innovates quickly, releases original SparkFun products nearly every week, and carefully selects resell products. These tools have been embraced by hobbyists, prototypers, R&D Teams, all over the world (and even on Mars!).
Here's just a few of our top selling original products:
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