Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Apptronik is building robots for the real world to improve human quality of life and to help solve the ever-increasing labor shortage problem. Our team has been building some of the most advanced robots on the planet for years, dating back to the DARPA Robotics Challenge. We apply our expertise across the full robotics stack to some of the most important and impactful problems our society faces, and expect our products and technology to change the world for the better. We value passion, creativity, and collaboration to help us overcome existing technological barriers in the industry to create truly innovative products.

You will join a team developing state-of-the-art general-purpose robots designed to operate in human spaces and with human tools. It is designed to work alongside humans, mobilize to human spaces, and manipulate the world around it.

JOB SUMMARY

We're looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer with proven hands-on capabilities and a strong practical background. We are primarily interested in candidates who have developed and released products to the market in automotive, medical, personal electronics, enterprise, or robotics spaces. In this job role, you will develop electric systems from ideation to delivery for a variety of robotic platforms and projects. We value candidates with subject matter expertise in power electronics, motor drive, battery and charger development, functional safety, compliance, or PCBA design for excellence (DFx).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Work closely with various engineering teams to conceptualize, specify, and implement electrical architectures for various robotic platforms to include robotic manipulators and humanoid robotic systems

Rapid prototyping of electrical systems at both system and board levels

Generate design documentation such as schematics, block diagrams, test plans and procedures, fabrication and assembly drawings

Convert prototype designs to custom circuit board specifications. Capture electronics schematics and generate PCB designs for manufacturing

Perform board bring-up activities including embedded firmware development and circuit validation

Create and execute test plans for intermediate and final products, including test fixture design and software development

Drive excellence in EMI/EMC/SI/PI and DFM/DFA

Participate in the debugging and root cause analysis related to hardware and software defect resolution

Interface with internal and external manufacturing teams to enhance design for test, manufacturing, and assembly

Support existing engineering products through debugging and upgrading designs

Work with supply chain to manage bills of materials (BOM), component sourcing, and component substitutions

Define electrical subsystem requirements based on system and product requirements

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

Experience architecting and designing batteries, battery management systems, charger systems, electrochemical simulations, OR

Experience with high-performance power electronics, including multiphase converters and isolated power supply topologies, OR

Experience with three-phase PMSM motor control, field-oriented control, flux-weakening control, and overmodulation, OR

Experience with functional safety design, documentation, processes, and prior experience working with TV, OR

Experience bringing a product through compliance testing including UL, CSA, FCC, CE, etc. OR

Experience with PCBA manufacturing and DFx

Interest and previous experience mentoring junior team members

Competent in CAD tools including Altium, or similar tools

Experience with simulation tools (ex: LTSpice, PSpice, Ansys, Simulink)

Experience managing and defining electrical subsystem requirements in JAMA or similar requirements management system

Experience working with product lifecycle management tools like Arena

Excellent problem-solving and hardware debugging skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Documentation experience - will be expected to develop detailed build assembly instructions and diagrams

[Nice to Have] Prior experience designing electronics for lightweight, space-constrained systems

[Nice to Have] Experience implementing embedded systems on robots

Travel up to 10% within US and internationally

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or related field

At least 5 years of experience as an Electrical Engineer

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times

Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen

Hearing and speech to communicate

*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.

Apptronik provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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