Electrical Engineering Lead

Mind Robotics; Palo Alto (CA); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mind Robotics is building generalized physical AI for real-world industrial robotics. The Electrical Engineering Lead will guide and scale the EE team, owning the robot’s electrical architecture and budget, and partnering with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware.

This leadership role demands hands-on experience with power electronics, high-speed interfaces, and rigorous design reviews, with a track record of delivering hardware from

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle board development (schematic to production) for robotics or electromechanical systems.
• 5+ years leading EE teams.
• Hands-on hardware design and debugging, not purely managerial.
• Deep EtherCAT experience for distributed actuation and sensing.
• Expertise in power electronics or sensor/mixed-signal front-ends.
• Strong EMI/EMC, grounding, and ESD mitigation knowledge.

Responsabilités

• Lead, mentor, and scale the EE team while hiring and onboarding.
• Own the robot’s end-to-end electrical architecture and budget.
• Set EE design standards, review schematics/layouts, and arbitrate trade-offs across signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermals, and cost.
• Partner with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs and integrate high-speed sensor stacks.
• Lead system-level electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging across board boundaries.
• Establish lightweight, scalable workflows for design reviews, schematic/layout sign-offs, ECO discipline, and roadmapping.
• Drive DFM/DFA, collaborate with PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers, and secure second-source components for production ramp.

Connaissances

EE team leadership

Schematic design

EtherCAT

Power electronics

High-speed interfaces

Multi-board hardware

Manufacturing readiness

Mentoring engineers

Formation

Electrical Engineering degree

Outils

PCB design tools

EMI/EMC testing tools

Description du poste

At Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. The Electrical Engineering Lead will be responsible for leading and scaling out our Electrical Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale the EE team (power electronics, sensing, and electrical design) while raising the technical bar through hiring and onboarding.
• Own the robot’s end-to-end electrical architecture (power, actuation, sensing, compute integration, and harnessing) and overall electrical budget.
• Set EE design standards, review schematics/layouts, and arbitrate trade-offs across signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermals, and cost.
• Partner with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs and integrate high-speed sensor stacks.
• Lead system-level electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging across board boundaries from the lab bench.
• Establish lightweight, scalable workflows for design reviews, schematic/layout sign-offs, ECO discipline, and roadmapping.
• Drive DFM/DFA, collaborate with PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers, and secure second-source components for production ramp.

Qualifications

• Technical degree in EE (or equivalent) with 8+ years of full-cycle board development (schematic to production) for complex robotic, automotive, or electromechanical systems.
• 5+ years leading EE teams.
• A first-principles engineer who actively designs, lays out, and debugs hardware rather than managing purely from a distance.
• Deep, hands-on experience with EtherCAT (topology, distributed-clock sync, PDO mapping) for distributed actuation and sensing.
• Mastery of at least one core domain—power electronics/motor drives or sensor/mixed-signal front-ends—with broad fluency across both.
• Strong grasp of high-current power architectures, rail partitioning, budgeting, and circuit protection (OVP/UVP/OCP/OTP).
• Solid command of EMI/EMC, grounding, and ESD mitigation in noisy, motor-dense environments.
• Fluency with high-speed serial interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, PMBus), plus enough firmware literacy to debug hardware boundaries.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers, managing risk, and driving multi-board hardware projects through volume manufacturing.