Description

Required Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a closely related field.
• 5+ years designing and shipping electronics and electrical hardware (advanced degrees can offset years of experience).
• Direct, hands-on experience designing electronics for robots or comparable electromechanical systems: humanoids, cobots, robotic arms, drones/aerospace, EVs and motor drives, medical devices, or other power-and-motion hardware.
• Deep expertise in PCB design: schematic capture and multilayer layout in a major EDA tool (Altium, KiCad, Cadence/OrCAD, or similar), with real fluency in power and signal integrity.
• Strong grasp of power electronics: power distribution, DC-DC conversion, battery/bus systems, protection and fusing, and powering motors and compute on a shared, noisy bus.
• Hands-on with motor-drive and actuator electronics: BLDC/gate drivers, current sensing, and the interface between power stage and controller.
• Fluency in the fundamentals: analog and digital design, mixed-signal, sensing and signal conditioning, and the common robot buses (CAN, EtherCAT, SPI, I2C, RS-485).
• A genuine design-and-manufacturing mindset: you design for how boards get fabricated, assembled, and sourced, and you've shipped electronics that survived the real world.
• Comfortable on the bench: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, bench supplies, and the kind of system-level debugging where the bug could be anywhere.
• A track record of taking electrical designs from schematic to validated, manufacturable hardware that actually shipped.

Nice to Have (Strong Pluses)

• Battery systems and Client design, including pack integration, charging, and safety.
• High-current / high-power design and the thermal and layout challenges that come with it.
• Firmware and embedded experience (C/C++ on STM32 or similar), and bringing up your own boards.
• EMI/EMC design and pre-compliance testing for motion-heavy, electrically noisy systems.
• Functional safety for machinery and robotics (e.g., ISO 13849, IEC 61508), e-stop and safety-rated circuits.
• Thermal design for densely packed actuator and power electronics.
• Integrating force/torque sensors, encoders, and IMUs at the electrical and signal level.
• High-speed digital design and interfaces (compute, cameras, high-bandwidth sensors).
• FPGA experience for real-time sensing or motor control.
• Experience scaling a hardware product from prototype to volume manufacturing with contract manufacturers and PCBA houses.
• Enough fluency with controls and firmware to design a clean, controllable electrical "plant," and to speak the same language as those teams

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree