CareerPlan

Senior Technical Program Manager · Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer at BREAKFAST Studio (kinetic art)

Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYCFull-time$140k–$200k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Design and build robotic sculptures driven by live environmental data, featuring thousands of motors on RS-485/Ethernet buses under Linux hosts.

Role type

Senior IC electrical & firmware engineer (robotics)

Builds

Robotic sculptures with hundreds to thousands of motors

Domain

Robotics + Embedded Systems

Required skills

KiCad schematic design, embedded C, stepper/BLDC motor control, RS-485/Ethernet bus architecture, production test fixture design, field-failure analysis, power/EMI/thermal management

Preferred skills

Linux host integration, prototype-to-CM transition

Technologies

KiCad, RS-485, Ethernet, Linux, embedded C

Responsibilities

Create KiCad schematics and layouts, tune stepper/BLDC drives, design bus architecture, build production test fixtures, analyze field failures

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC