Senior Member of Technical Staff Platform Electrical Engineer
Job Summary
Position Summary:
Were seeking an execution-driven Senior Electrical Engineer to be a technical leader in the hands-on implementation and delivery of our robots electrical this role you will be an individual contributor responsible for designing building and testing critical subsystems including: power distribution BMS system level communications and wire harnesses and ensuring these systems scale from early prototypes to robust fault-tolerant production hardware. Candidates should bring deep experience delivering complex electromechanical products along with demonstrated excellence in technical leadership deep ownership bias for action delivery and mentorship.
Core Responsibilities:
- Own the electrical platform architecture for the humanoid robot including battery systems power distribution grounding and protection across the full machine.
- Design and deliver power management electronics including high power capable switches pre-charge circuits and monitoring systems.
- Design the robots wire harness and interconnect systemarchitecture connector selection current/voltage-drop budgets routing and strain relief from prototype through production.
- Define and integrate battery systems in partnership with pack BMS and cell suppliers addressing capacity safe operating limits charging protection and thermal considerations.
- Partner cross-functionally with mechanical firmware controls and technicians to route power and signals through a tightly packaged robot resolve integration issues and optimize for mass serviceability and reliability.
- Lead system-level analysis and validationpower budgets fault and safety analysis load and thermal testingand drive root-cause analysis of electrical issues across the platform.
- Drive the designs through DFM/DFA and production release with manufacturing and supply chain establish platform electrical standards and mentor engineers and technicians.
Required Qualifications:
- 7 years of experience delivering complex electrical systems from concept through production (or MS 5 years) including shipping hardware into volume production.
- Strong core electrical engineering skillset: schematic design PCB layout (e.g Altium) power electronics/regulation component selection and system-level electrical integration.
- Demonstrated experience designing battery systems for high power products including packs BMS integration charging and safe operating and protection requirements.
- Deep understanding of power electronics fundamentals and working with high current systems. Experience designing power distribution for complex electromechanical systems including protection grounding and fault analysis.
- Hands-on experience architecting and building wire harnesses and interconnect systemsconnector selection current and voltage-drop budgeting harness routing and fabrication.
- Strong communication ownership and a collaborative cross-functional approach with the ability to reason about the electrical system at the whole-product level.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Direct experience with robotic systems preferably humanoid and/or manipulation robots.
- Experience with high speed communications protocols such as Ethernet and PCIE.
- Experience with high-voltage or high-current battery systems and associated safety standards.
Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program including salary annual cash bonus company equity company-subsidized insurance programs 401(k) with company match flexible PTO daily lunch and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.
Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a request to .
Walden Robotics participates in E-Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become an employee with Walden Robotics.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all peopleāsupporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-cl ... View more