Autonomous Robotics Electronics Engineer

ETH Zurich; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Spin-off opportunity

Job summary

ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control seeks an early-career electronics and embedded specialist for Way of Water, a funded field-robotics project. You will own the electrical and embedded layers, design boards, manage power budgets, and ensure reliability in water, EMI, and outdoor conditions.

You will bring up boards, write firmware, diagnose issues, and collaborate with mechanical and software teams to deliver maintainable hardware.

Qualifications

• 0–5 years hands-on experience after your degree; early-career project-staff role.
• Background in electrical engineering, electronics, embedded systems or equivalent.
• Delivered boards or electronic systems yourself — design, bring-up, debug and handover.
• Hands-on work is required: bring up boards, probe faults and ship working electronics.
• Practical circuit judgement (analogue and digital, power, grounding) and device interfaces.
• Ability to write embedded or test software (C/C++ and scripting).
• Appetite for outdoor and on-water testing; field days are part of the job.

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical and embedded layer: from requirements and schematics to boards that boot and talk to sensors/actuators.
• Bring systems up, write firmware/diagnostics for understanding them, and leave tests for reuse.
• Work at the seams with mechanical and software colleagues: mounting, connectors, grounding, timing, power budgets, and post-use reliability.
• Partner with fabricators, assemblers and technicians so designs leave the bench as maintainable units.
• Investigate hard faults with instruments and logs; turn field symptoms into fixes.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Embedded systems

Hardware bring-up

C/C++

Diagnostics

Field testing

Documentation

Education

Electrical engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control seeks an early-career electronics and embedded specialist for Way of Water, a funded field-robotics project. You will own the electrical and embedded layers, design boards, manage power budgets, and ensure reliability in water, EMI, and outdoor conditions.

You will bring up boards, write firmware, diagnose issues, and collaborate with mechanical and software teams to deliver maintainable hardware.