Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (On-site)

Who you are

You've led the hardware of an AMR or comparable mobile robot from a blank page through safety certification and production, and you've designed and shipped its battery-powered systems yourself. You know the failure modes: inrush, regen on a full pack, ground loops, connector and busbar heating, a BMS that trips when you least expect it, and the safety function that fails validation a month before the audit. You can write a pack specification a vendor can build to and verify what they deliver.

You lead by doing design work alongside the team. Our ideal candidate expects to spend roughly half their time on design/build/troubleshoot and half on team leadership, test, and certification.

Skills you'll bring

• Experience: Bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering (or related) and 10+ years designing, building, and testing power systems and PCBAs, including leading the hardware of an AMR, AGV, or similar mobile robot taken through production
• AMR Safety Certification: You have taken an AMR or similar mobile machine through third-party safety certification (ISO 3691-4, ANSI/RIA R15.08, UL 3100), including ISO 13849 safety functions, the evidence package, and test-lab campaigns
• Power Depth: Mastery of high-current distribution, pre-charge and protection circuits, DC/DC conversion, motor-drive power stages, and regen and bus-capacitance behavior
• Battery Integration: Working knowledge of BMS behavior (balancing, SoC/SoH, protection limits, CAN interface) and how to specify, qualify, and integrate a vendor pack and charger
• Compliance: Working knowledge of IEC 62133 / UL 2271 at the pack interface and EMC (IEC 61000 series) with pre-compliance debugging
• Leadership: You have led engineers through an NPI cycle and made them better; you give direct, specific design feedback
• Tool Fluency: Proficient in Altium Designer for schematic capture and multi-layer, high-current layout; LTspice or similar for simulation; Python for test automation
• Debugging Mastery: Scope, current probe, thermal camera, and bench instruments; you document what you find and converge on a fix quickly
• Clarity of Communication: Clear design documentation, crisp trade studies, and design reviews that make your peers better
• Impact Driven: A reliable, manufacturable robot that ships beats an elegant one that never leaves the lab
• Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You thrive in a fast-moving team with changing requirements and tight timelines

• Mechanical design of mobile robots (chassis, drivetrain, battery packaging), enough to lead mechanical engineers well
• Custom battery pack design (cell selection, pack mechanical and thermal design, BMS hardware)
• Motor control (FOC, current sensing) and inverter design for traction or robot joints
• Real-time industrial fieldbuses (EtherCAT, CAN/CANopen) and safety fieldbus
• Taking products from prototype through NPI to volume manufacturing — DFM/DFT, test fixtures, yield improvement

This is an on-site role based at our new Boston-area office, where Bolt is designed, built, and tested, with some flexibility on days in the office once you're up to speed. On-site you'll build up a fully equipped electronics lab, a build area, a test floor, and the team steps from your desk.

The base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $220,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.