Electrical Engineer

We're looking for an Electrical Engineer to own the electrical backbone of our humanoids and cobot arms: power distribution, custom PCBs, sensing, and the interconnect that ties every joint, actuator, and sensor into one reliable system. You'll take boards and electrical subsystems from schematic and first-principles power budget through layout, bring‑up, test, design‑for‑manufacturing, and deployment on the floor. This is a hands‑on senior IC role for an electrical engineer who likes to live close to the metal, so someone who has shipped real robot electronics, sweats power integrity, thermal headroom, and connector pinouts, and wants the boards they designed to hold up under real use.

You'll work closely with mechanical, controls, and firmware: your electrical design is what gives those teams clean power and trustworthy signals to build on.

• Own the electrical design of robotic arms and humanoids end‑to‑end: power distribution boards, motor‑driver and sensor PCBs, interconnect, and harnessing from schematic through production.
• Design power distribution and conditioning: battery/bus input, fusing and protection, e‑stop and safety circuits, DC‑DC conversion, and clean power rails for compute, actuators, and sensors.
• Design and deliver custom PCBs: multilayer, mixed‑signal, high‑current and high‑speed digital: schematic capture, component selection, layout, and BOM, with a constant eye on power and signal integrity.
• Integrate motor drivers, gate drivers, and current sensing for BLDC actuators, and partner with controls and firmware to get clean torque and position control out of real hardware.
• Build out sensing and signal chains: encoders, force/torque sensors, IMUs, current/voltage monitoring, and the analog front‑ends and interfaces behind them.
• Design the communication and power buses across the robot (EtherCAT, CAN/CAN‑FD, RS‑485, SPI, I2C, USB) and the interconnect and cable harnesses that hold it all together.
• Run the fundamentals: power budgeting, thermal analysis for densely packed electronics, EMI/EMC, component derating, and protection against the brownouts, transients, and faults a robot actually sees.
• Bring up boards on the bench (scope, logic analyzer, bench supply), debug at the board and system level, and root‑cause electrical failures straight back into the design.
• Drive design‑for‑manufacturing and design‑for‑assembly (DFM/DFA), and work with PCB fab and assembly houses to scale from prototype to the factory floor.
• Define and run electrical test plans, performance characterization, and life/reliability testing, and feed results back into the next revision.
• Lead design reviews, set electrical design standards, and raise the bar for the team.

• 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…