Embedded Electronics Engineer — Autonomous Ocean Robotics

Superorganism; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ulysses in San Francisco is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design, prototype, and bring to production the embedded electronics powering our autonomous surface and subsea robots. You’ll own boards and subsystems end-to-end—from schematics to field testing—collaborating with mechanical, robotics, and software teams to ship robust systems.

You’ll work on manufacturable hardware, power electronics, sensing, and ruggedization for harsh marine environments, with a focus on reliability and

Qualifications

• Hands-on hardware experience with demonstrable projects.

Responsibilities

• Embedded electronics, end-to-end: architecture and design for robotic platforms.
• Rapid prototyping to production PCBs with cross‑functional collaboration.
• Firmware bring-up, sensor integration, control loops, diagnostics, and interfaces.
• Power systems design: DC/DC, protection, charging paths, and monitoring.
• System integration across UART/CAN/USB/Ethernet with hardware/firmware interfaces.
• Create test plans, environmental and reliability testing, and field improvements.
• Design for scale with DFM/DFT, BOMs, and production fixtures.
• Documentation and handoffs to manufacturing.

Skills

Embedded systems

Power electronics

PCB design

Schematic capture

Firmware development

C/C++

ECAD tools

System integration

Diagnostics

Tools

KiCad

Altium

Python

SPICE

Job description

Ulysses in San Francisco is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design, prototype, and bring to production the embedded electronics powering our autonomous surface and subsea robots. You’ll own boards and subsystems end-to-end—from schematics to field testing—collaborating with mechanical, robotics, and software teams to ship robust systems.

You’ll work on manufacturable hardware, power electronics, sensing, and ruggedization for harsh marine environments, with a focus on reliability and