Electrical Engineer (Hiring at all Levels)

Reflex Robotics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative robotics company based in New York is seeking experienced Senior and Staff Electrical Engineers. You will have the opportunity to shape products in a small, high-equity team while building robust hardware for their new generation robotics. Ideal candidates will have experience in mass manufacturing and a deep understanding of PCB layout and high-speed data routing. This role is perfect for those who thrive in dynamic environments and are passionate about engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping hardware on 500+ devices and designing for mass manufacture.
• Understanding of high speed data routing and PCB layout.
• Ability to future-proof designs for firmware and mechanical constraints.
• Strong system understanding, enabling firmware/mechanical co-design.

Responsibilities

• Build robust and versatile hardware for robotics.
• Shape product from the ground up in a dynamic startup environment.
• Shape product functionality and design from the ground up.
• Collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Skills

High speed data routing (DDR4 RAM, PCIe, MIPI)

PCB layout and power switching circuits

Robust hardware design

Firmware and motherboard design

High-speed data

Firmware

System integration

Tools

Firmware design

Motherboard design

RF design

Job description

Company Overview

Company Overview Reflex Robotics is building affordable ($10k) wheeled humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics.

We envision a future where intelligent robots are doing all kinds of boring work that people hate doing—loading chicken nuggets into Costco boxes, lifting forty pound bags of dog food at Petco stores, and cleaning up cranberry juice spills in your apartment.

We are a three-year-old startup backed by Khosla Ventures, with $60M/year of revenue lined up pending successful pilots with e-commerce warehouses in 2025.

How Does It Work?

Our robots are designed and built entirely in-house by an engineering team that led development of the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics and key systems on the Tesla Model S, X, and Y production lines. Reflex robots are high-performance, low-inertia, and optimized for low-cost manufacturing.

We’ve built the best real-time teleoperation system in the world, allowing a remote operator in South America to “play a video game” to control our robots at human-level speeds. This has allowed us to already ship robots with positive unit economics, and enables us to create a powerful human-intervention + RL product feedback loop.

Our system allows us to collect high-quality demonstrations at scale—giving us the proprietary data engine needed to train increasingly capable AI systems. We\'re on track to build the largest robotics dataset in the world, which will serve as an important long-term advantage.

Key Company Beliefs

• High-quality, proprietary robotics data is the next foundation for generational AI companies (like Tesla FSD and ChatGPT).

• Being nerd-sniped by maximizing an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers’ biggest pain points.

• An insane work ethic is required for outsized success—and you\'ll be rewarded for it.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for Senior and Staff Electrical Engineers to join our team.

We’re still a small team—which means high ownership, high equity, and the chance to shape the product from the ground up.

You should strongly consider applying if you:

• You\'ve shipped hardware running on 500+ devices before, not just on prototypes. You\'ve designed for mass-manufacture, supply chain stability, low cost, and robust design.

• You have a good understanding of high speed data routing (DDR4 RAM, PCIe, MIPI) and PCB layout, especially power switching circuits like motor drives and high density multilayer boards

• You like to understand the entire system you\'re working with—i.e., you care about future-proofing designs to facilitate adding firmware functionality or the mechanical constraints like cable selection and bend radius imposed by electrical design choices

• You pride yourself in building robust, versatile hardware that others can trust for years

• Bonus: Firmware, motherboard design with integrated CPU/GPU, RF design

You’d be joining a company that already has a solid core business—with working hardware, delighted customers, and profitable unit economics. Reflex is de-risked enough to see the hazy outlines of success, but still small enough that there’s enormous upside up for grabs.

Come Join Us

This is a rare opportunity to help build a flagship robotics company from the ground up—and to do work that will truly matter, reshaping what people believe is possible in robotics.

We love to see the things you’ve worked on. Have a portfolio or insane project you’ve worked on? Share it. We’re looking for people who push past the status quo, are passionate at work and in their own time—we’re looking for people who want to win.