Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Dusty Robotics develops robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce. While today's buildings are built predominantly with manual labor, Dusty envisions a future in which skilled labor makes use of robotic automation to make the work safer, more efficient, and more precise. We want to create a future in which construction workers don't need to retire early because their bodies give out.

In Dusty's future, the buildings we live and work in are built by teams of creative and problem-solving construction crews who direct robots to do the dull, dirty, and dangerous work.

Dusty Robotics is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to help design, develop, and manufacture the electrical systems that power our autonomous construction robots. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of product development, system integration, and real-world deployment.

You will play a key role in architecting and delivering robust electrical hardware for next-generation robotic platforms, working closely with mechanical, firmware, software, and manufacturing teams. Your work will directly impact the reliability, performance, and manufacturability of products operating in demanding construction environments.

This is currently a one-person EE function, so you'll own electrical engineering end to end — there's a steady flow of new PCBAs to design and an ongoing need to support Manufacturing, plus real ambiguity in how work gets structured. You'll be given problems more often than playbooks, and part of the job is building the tools, processes, and documentation (Confluence pages, spreadsheets, test fixtures, schedules, cost estimates) that don't exist yet.

We're looking for an engineer who has successfully developed complex electromechanical systems from concept through production and is excited by the challenge of bringing innovative robotic products to market.

• Design and develop electrical architectures for autonomous robotic systems
• Own schematic capture, PCB design oversight, component selection, and system integration
• Develop power distribution, battery management, motor control, sensing, and communication systems
• Define electrical requirements and interfaces across hardware and software subsystems
• Be responsible for EE prototype development, bring-up, debugging, validation, certification, and release to manufacturing

• Lead electrical hardware development from concept through production release
• Drive design reviews and ensure designs meet performance, reliability, safety, and cost targets
• Perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting for electrical and system-level issues, including diagnosing hardware returned from the field
• Develop and execute validation plans to verify system functionality and robustness
• Improve product reliability through testing, failure analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives — minimizing costly hardware do-overs through disciplined prototype testing and QA

• Work closely with mechanical, firmware, software, and systems engineers to develop integrated robotic solutions
• Partner with manufacturing and supply chain teams to support design for manufacturability, assembly, and serviceability
• Contribute to system architecture decisions and tradeoff analyses across multiple engineering disciplines
• Support field deployments and incorporate customer feedback into future product improvements
• Proactively drive cross-team collaboration — on a lean team, alignment doesn't happen unless someone owns making it happen

• Collaborate with contract manufacturers and suppliers to support production builds
• Drive component selection, qualification, and lifecycle management
• Develop test strategies and production validation processes
• Support transition from prototype to volume manufacturing while maintaining product quality and reliability

• Help define the electrical architecture of future generations of Dusty's robotic platforms
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies in sensing, power electronics, controls, and robotics
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices — several teammates are early in their careers and rely on…