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Staff Electrical Engineer

Waltham, MA💼 Full-time💰 $117,000–$117,000🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design compact, reliable electronics for dense electromechanical systems in advanced humanoid robots, including actuators, motor drives, and power supplies.

Role type

Staff Electrical Engineer (Robotics)

Builds

Advanced humanoid robots (Atlas) and industrial automation solutions

Domain

Robotics, electromechanical systems, industrial automation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Power electronics design, motor drive design, high-speed data technologies (Ethernet, PCIe), HDI and heavy copper PCB layout, circuit analysis and simulation, Linux command-line tools, Python/C/C++/MATLAB

Preferred skills

Mechanical CAD (Solidworks), failure analysis, EVT execution

Technologies

Spice, Linux, Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Solidworks, Ethernet, PCIe, oscilloscopes, DMMs, spectrum analyzers

Responsibilities

Design electronics for robotic actuators and end-effectors, develop circuit designs for motor drives and power supplies, analyze and optimize designs using simulation, design PCB layouts for integrated assemblies, work cross-functionally to miniaturize PCBs, conduct failure analysis and debug complex systems, develop design and test documentation, configure networks and run software on robots using Linux tools

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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