Electrical Engineer for Robotic Actuator Test Systems

Triwill Group; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco seeks an Electrical Engineer to own the electrical backbone of our robotic actuator dynamometer and test infrastructure. You will design, integrate, and operate load motor drives, power distribution, instrumentation wiring, and DAQ interfaces to enable repeatable, safe, and scalable actuator testing.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and controls teams to turn robotic actuator hardware into trustworthy data, while advancing lab safety and test reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Experience building, commissioning, or maintaining electrical systems for robotic actuator dynamometers, robotics, automation, motors, power electronics, or industrial test equipment.
• Hands-on experience with motor drives, servo systems, load motors, power distribution, and electrical protection.
• Strong understanding of grounding, shielding, EMI/EMC, signal integrity, and instrumentation wiring.
• Experience integrating sensors and DAQ hardware for voltage, current, torque, position, speed, temperature, or vibration measurements.
• Familiarity with electrical safety practices, E-stops, interlocks, safe torque off, lockout/tagout, and relevant lab or machinery standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical architecture of dynamometer and actuator test cells, from mains distribution through load drives, braking, and auxiliary power.
• Specify, integrate, commission, and tune motor drives and load machines for robotic actuator torque, speed, efficiency, thermal, and durability testing.
• Design power distribution, grounding, shielding, cable routing, and connectorization for high-current, high-voltage, and low-level measurement systems.
• Integrate torque, position, speed, temperature, voltage, current, vibration, and other instrumentation from robotic actuators into DAQ and control systems.
• Develop electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, panel layouts, harness documentation, and test-cell interface definitions.
• Build, debug, and maintain test-cell electrical hardware, rapidly diagnosing noise, EMI, grounding, drive, sensor, and power-quality issues.
• Design and validate safety circuits including E-stops, interlocks, contactors, safe torque off, guarding interfaces, and fault detection.
• Partner with mechanical engineers on packaging, cooling, fixturing interfaces, and serviceability of test infrastructure.
• Partner with software and controls engineers on I/O maps, real-time signals, calibration, automated sequences, and reliable data capture.
• Establish commissioning, calibration, inspection, and preventive-maintenance procedures for lab electrical systems.
• Evaluate vendors and components for drives, motors, sensors, DAQ hardware, protection devices, and electrical enclosures.
• Analyze test and diagnostic data to improve measurement quality, cell uptime, and hardware reliability.
• Set practical electrical standards that enable a growing dyno lab to operate safely and consistently.

Skills

Power electronics

Motor drives

Instrumentation wiring

DAQ systems

Electrical safety

System integration

Education

Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Power analyzers

DAQ hardware

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco seeks an Electrical Engineer to own the electrical backbone of our robotic actuator dynamometer and test infrastructure. You will design, integrate, and operate load motor drives, power distribution, instrumentation wiring, and DAQ interfaces to enable repeatable, safe, and scalable actuator testing.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and controls teams to turn robotic actuator hardware into trustworthy data, while advancing lab safety and test reliability.