Who you are
We don't require a background in robotics, but we do require deep, hands-on electronics experience and a track record of leading engineers.
We're looking for leaders who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, resourceful, and highly collaborative. We have no requirement for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply deep electronics expertise (from motor drives, power electronics, embedded compute, automotive, or aerospace) to robots they can watch move.
Skills you'll bring
- Experience: You have a bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering (or a related field), 15+ years designing, building, and testing PCBAs, including designs you've taken through production release, and 7+ years leading and managing electrical engineers
- Leadership: You have hired, coached, and grown engineers, including early-career engineers; you set clear priorities, give direct feedback, and hold a high technical bar
- Delegation: You delegate well: you give engineers real ownership, trust them with it, and step in only where your help changes the outcome
- Right-sized Process: You know how much process a fast-moving hardware team needs, and you add it only where it improves speed or engineering outcomes
- Cross-team Communication: You have a very strong ability to communicate with other teams and departments across the company (Software, Functional Safety, Manufacturing, Product, and leadership): you explain electrical trade-offs in terms each team understands, share plans, status, and risks early, and build the trust that lets cross-team decisions happen quickly
- Collaboration: You are very collaborative across the company; you work as one team with mechanical engineers, and you treat the electrical-mechanical interface as a shared problem, not a handoff. Ability to collaborate with Production, Operations, Procurement, Quality, Customer support, etc. will be key to success in this role.
- Ownership of Output: You plan and deliver a team's work against real schedules, catch problems in review before they reach the lab or the factory, and take responsibility for what your team ships
- EE Depth: You have mastery of power electronics (motor drivers and inverter stages, switch-mode supplies, power sequencing and protection), digital electronics (MCUs, FPGAs, Ethernet, USB, SPI/I2C/UART, signal-integrity fundamentals), and analog electronics (op-amps, filters, ADC/DAC signal chains, precision sensing)
- Tool Fluency: You're proficient in Altium Designer (or similar EDA tools) for schematic capture and multi-layer layout, including constraint-driven routing for high-speed and high-current designs
- Debugging Mastery: You know how to attack a hardware problem with a scope, logic/protocol analyzer, and bench instruments, document what you find, and converge on a fix quickly, and you teach your team to do the same
- Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication: clear design documentation, crisp trade studies, and design reviews that make your team better
- Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism; a reliable, manufacturable board that ships beats an elegant one that never leaves the lab
- Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity, and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed designs or incumbent hardware
- Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
- Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds