What We’re Looking For
We develop custom servo actuators, compute, networking, cameras, sensors, and power electronics for our robots. These systems need to be performant, reliable, cost-effective, and tightly integrated with the rest of the robot.
We are looking for a senior to staff-level electrical engineer to own the robot’s power electronics and power distribution architecture. This includes the battery management system, bus voltage switching, e-stop integration, precharge, cabling, motor inverters, and EMI mitigation.
You will be responsible for defining requirements, making system-level architecture decisions, and taking designs from concept through bring-up, testing, and deployment. You will also work closely with junior engineers and external layout resources to execute designs.
Some of the problems you may work on include
- Miniaturizing motor drives by reducing bus capacitance and switching-stage size without sacrificing efficiency or creating EMI problems
- Designing the power system safety architecture, including safe startup, shutdown, fault handling, and battery hot-swapping
- Designing and validating a custom battery management system
- Improving motor inverter performance, reliability, thermal performance, and packaging
- Diagnosing and mitigating conducted and radiated EMI across the robot
We love engineers who have built systems they are genuinely proud of, whether that is a shipped product, a difficult technical project, or something they built outside of work.
Required Qualifications
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals
- Deep experience designing power electronics systems, ideally in the ~48V range
- Experience with motor inverters, motor drives, or similar high-current switching systems
- Strong PCB design, board bring-up, test, and debug skills
- Comfortable debugging power electronics with scopes, power supplies, current probes, and other lab equipment
- Strong understanding of system-level tradeoffs across electrical, firmware, mechanical, thermal, and cost constraints
- Ability to independently define technical requirements and make architecture and design decisions
- Experience taking complex electrical designs from concept through prototype and validation
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical work across multiple contributors
- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related field