Electrical Validation Engineer – Dexterous Hand Systems

Figure; California City (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Figure is seeking an Electrical Validation Engineer to lead bring-up, validation, and performance characterization of the dexterous hand subsystem for its humanoid robots. You will own validation from first-article prototypes through production builds.

The role requires 5+ years in electrical/mechatronic validation, strong debugging skills, and Python automation. Expect in-office collaboration five days per week in San Jose, CA, with emphasis on reliability and fleet health metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechatronics, Controls, or Systems Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in electrical or mechatronic systems validation.
• Strong understanding of power delivery, motor drives, actuator control, sensing, and grounding in electromechanical systems.
• Proficiency in Python for automation, data acquisition, and analysis.
• Skilled with lab instrumentation including oscilloscopes, power analyzers, DAQs, and thermal sensors.
• Proven ability to debug hardware, firmware, and control-loop issues in tightly integrated systems.
• Strong documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical and mechatronic bring-up and system validation of the hand subsystem, including actuators, motor drives, PCBAs, sensors, harnessing, and power distribution.
• Plan and execute subsystem and system-level validation of electrical system, actuation performance, power consumption and thermals.
• Develop and automate validation workflows and test setups to stress full range of motion, load cases, duty cycles, and environmental conditions.
• Debug complex cross-disciplinary issues across hardware, firmware, controls, and mechanics using telemetry, oscilloscopes, DAQs, power analyzers, and thermal instrumentation.
• Lead root-cause analysis for reliability, performance, and durability issues; drive design, firmware, or process improvements in collaboration with partner teams.
• Build and maintain Python-based data logging, visualization, and analysis tools to track subsystem performance and detect anomalies.
• Define KPIs and validation metrics to track hand subsystem performance, reliability, and fleet health over time.
• Document bring-up procedures, validation results, and integration learnings to support scaling to production, manufacturing test, and sustaining engineering.

Skills

Python for automation

Hardware debugging

Data analysis

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Mechatronics/Controls/Systems Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Power analyzers

Data acquisition (DAQs)

Thermal sensors

CAN bus

SPI

I2C

EtherCAT/Ethernet

Job description

Figure is seeking an Electrical Validation Engineer to lead bring-up, validation, and performance characterization of the dexterous hand subsystem for its humanoid robots. You will own validation from first-article prototypes through production builds.

The role requires 5+ years in electrical/mechatronic validation, strong debugging skills, and Python automation. Expect in-office collaboration five days per week in San Jose, CA, with emphasis on reliability and fleet health metrics.