Founding Electrical & Embedded Engineer

Lucé Robotics; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucé Robotics is seeking an electrical/embedded engineer to build the nervous system of a robot for months-long deployments in harsh environments. You will design power distribution, integrate various sensors, and size onboard compute for real-time AI inference.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience with outdoor mobile systems, schematics, PCB reviews, embedded Linux, and hardware bring-up. Real project work and a portfolio are valued over credentials.

Qualifications

• Background in electrical or embedded engineering in robotics, machine vision, drones or automotive.
• Has designed power distribution and integrated multiple sensors on an outdoor mobile system.
• Fluent in schematics, PCB review, embedded Linux and hardware bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Power architecture: battery, power distribution, fusing, e-stop and safety chain, DC/DC conversion, charging.
• Choosing and integrating sensors: inspection and thermal cameras, lidar, GNSS RTK, IMU.
• Compute platform: carrier board, I/O and camera interfaces, sizing the onboard compute for real-time AI inference.
• Wiring harness, EMI mitigation and reliability testing ahead of customer deployments.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Embedded systems

Robotics

Job description

You'll build the nervous system of a robot that works on its own for months in harsh environments.

What you'll own

• Power architecture: battery, power distribution, fusing, e-stop and safety chain, DC/DC conversion, charging
• Choosing and integrating sensors: inspection and thermal cameras, lidar, GNSS RTK, IMU
• Compute platform: carrier board, I/O and camera interfaces, sizing the onboard compute for real-time AI inference
• Wiring harness, EMI mitigation and reliability testing ahead of customer deployments

Profile

• Background in electrical or embedded engineering in robotics, machine vision, drones or automotive
• Has designed power distribution and integrated multiple sensors on an outdoor mobile system
• Fluent in schematics, PCB review, embedded Linux and hardware bring-up

What we look for

Real work over credentials. Show us what you have built: projects, a portfolio, open source, what you shipped in past roles. That's what we look at first.