Robotics Electrical Design Lead: Power & Actuation

Mind Robotics; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Mind Robotics seeks an Electrical Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end electrical architecture for its advanced robotic systems. This hands-on role drives schematic design, PCB layout, and fault isolation, mentoring the EE team and guiding development from bench to production with a focus on power electronics, motor drives, and high-speed sensing stacks, including EtherCAT.

You will partner across mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle board development for complex robotic/electromechanical systems.
• Hands-on hardware design experience rather than pure management.
• Deep EtherCAT experience for distributed actuation and sensing.
• Strong power electronics, motor drives, and high-current architecture knowledge.
• Experience with EMI/EMC, thermal considerations, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale the EE team including power, sensing, and electrical design.
• Own end-to-end electrical architecture and overall electrical budget for robotic systems.
• Set EE design standards, review schematics and layouts, arbitrate trade-offs.
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate requirements into hardware specs.
• Lead system-level electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging.
• Establish scalable workflows for design reviews, ECOs, and roadmapping.
• Drive DFM/DFA and coordinate with PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers.

Skills

Board development

Schematic design

PCB layout

Fault isolation

Power electronics

Motor drives

EtherCAT

Distributed actuation

High-speed interfaces

Firmware literacy

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

SPI

I2C

UART

PMBus

Job description

Mind Robotics seeks an Electrical Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end electrical architecture for its advanced robotic systems. This hands-on role drives schematic design, PCB layout, and fault isolation, mentoring the EE team and guiding development from bench to production with a focus on power electronics, motor drives, and high-speed sensing stacks, including EtherCAT.

You will partner across mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs