Staff Electrical Engineer
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