Robotics Electrical Engineer — On-Site SF + Equity

Ixian Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Equity: 0.1%–1%

Job summary

Ixian Robotics in San Francisco is seeking a hardware engineer to own electrical designs from block diagram to working hardware: schematics, PCB layout, component selection, assembly, bring-up, and validation. Your work will connect power, sensing, actuation, and compute into systems that operate reliably together.

You’ll spend the bench time and in design tools, writing firmware to exercise your boards, investigating electrical and timing problems, and collaborating with mechanical and software

Qualifications

• Experience taking a board from schematic and layout through bring-up.
• Proficiency in a PCB design tool such as Altium or KiCad and practical analog, digital, and power-electronics fundamentals.
• Understanding of grounding, noise, decoupling, protection, and interface constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design and lay out PCBs, balancing signal integrity, grounding, thermal constraints, component availability, and testing.
• Build power architectures with conversion, distribution, protection, and monitoring.
• Integrate sensors, motor electronics, and communication interfaces; design harnesses for reliable assembly and service.
• Bring up boards using scopes and test firmware; isolate faults across hardware and software.
• Develop validation procedures and test fixtures to catch intermittent faults and ease future builds.
• Collaborate with fabricators and assembly partners; maintain design documentation and resolve issues from manufacture or integration.

Skills

PCB design

Altium

KiCad

Analog and digital electronics

Power electronics

Embedded programming

Bench instrumentation

Soldering / rework

System bring-up

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

Ixian Robotics in San Francisco is seeking a hardware engineer to own electrical designs from block diagram to working hardware: schematics, PCB layout, component selection, assembly, bring-up, and validation. Your work will connect power, sensing, actuation, and compute into systems that operate reliably together.

You’ll spend the bench time and in design tools, writing firmware to exercise your boards, investigating electrical and timing problems, and collaborating with mechanical and software