Founding Electrical Engineer, Autonomous PCB Machine

Ant-Tech; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in SF

Six days/week

Ownership of subsystems

Rapid prototyping culture

Job summary

Ant-Tech in San Francisco seeks a hands-on Founding Electrical Engineer to lead the design and bring-up of a fully autonomous PCB fabrication machine. You will work across electronics, robotics, sensing, motion control, test & measurement, firmware, and software to take concepts to prototypes and real-world deployment.

You will own subsystems, build custom boards, and create test fixtures while solving tight micron-level tolerances in a fast-paced startup setting.

Qualifications

• Deep Electrical Engineering expertise with knowledge of circuits, signals, and failure modes.
• Hands-on experience designing, bringing up, and debugging circuit boards with discussion of performance and limitations.
• Experience at hardware/robotics/defense company producing for production and real-world use.
• Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, signal generators, data acquisition, and custom fixtures.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and bring up custom circuit boards for sensing, actuation, measurement, and control.
• Build high-accuracy test fixtures, harnesses, and instrumentation.
• Develop electrical systems for precision autonomous machines with micron-level tolerances.
• Debug complex failures across electronics, firmware, software, and mechanical systems.
• Own subsystems end-to-end from schematics to fully working systems.

Skills

Deep electrical engineering

Circuit design & debugging

Hardware systems intuition

Firmware fundamentals

Rapid prototyping

Autonomy & problem solving

Education

Electrical Engineering / Computer Science / Mechanical Engineering / Physics

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Power supplies

Signal generators

Data acquisition systems

Custom test fixtures

Job description

Ant-Tech in San Francisco seeks a hands-on Founding Electrical Engineer to lead the design and bring-up of a fully autonomous PCB fabrication machine. You will work across electronics, robotics, sensing, motion control, test & measurement, firmware, and software to take concepts to prototypes and real-world deployment.

You will own subsystems, build custom boards, and create test fixtures while solving tight micron-level tolerances in a fast-paced startup setting.