Senior Electrical Engineer - Aggregator
Core
Design and build electronics for Apollo's sensor bridge, aggregating camera sensor data and human-robot interface functions into an efficient cable interface routed across dynamic joints.
Role type
Senior IC electrical engineer (FPGA & high-speed hardware)
Builds
Apollo humanoid robot sensor bridge subsystems
Domain
Robotics / Applied AI / High-speed electronics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
FPGA hardware design, RTL development (VHDL/Verilog), high-speed interface design (CSI-2, GMSL, Ethernet), timing closure, clock-domain crossing, high-speed transceiver integration, camera/image sensor hardware experience, Ethernet-based sensor streaming, schematic capture, layout guidance, signal integrity analysis, impedance-controlled routing, DFM/DFA
Preferred skills
Automotive or robotics vision systems experience, multi-camera and multi-IMU synchronization
Technologies
Vivado, Quartus, Lattice Radiant, ModelSim, Questa, GMSL, FPD-Link, MIPI CSI-2, SerDes, PCIe, 10GbE, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers
Responsibilities
Define requirements and own part selection, schematic capture, layout guidance, and RTL implementation for assigned subsystems; Design and validate high-speed digital interfaces and power tree; Develop and execute validation plans for board-level and FPGA-level testing; Manage third-party relationships with hardware vendors and contract manufacturers; Mentor junior engineers on hardware design best practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC