Robotics Hardware Engineer — End-to-End Electrical Design

JRNLClub; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to help develop the next generation of robotic systems across hardware lifecycle—from concept through PCB layout, bring-up, and deployment.

You will own electrical architecture, work with mechanical, firmware, software, and research teams, and make design tradeoffs to deliver robust, compact systems that meet aggressive constraints.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing electrical systems for robotics or related fields.
• Experience owning hardware from concept through PCB layout and deployment.
• Ability to design compact, high-density electronics under tight mechanical constraints.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as GMSL, MIPI/CSI, FPD-Link is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own significant portions of electrical architecture for integrated robotic systems.
• Design and implement electronics spanning circuit design, component selection, PCB layout, bring-up, validation, and deployment.
• Build and validate hardware in integrated robotic systems and drive root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware, software, controls, manufacturing, and research teams.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs across performance, size, power, reliability, manufacturability, and iteration speed.

Skills

Electrical design

PCB layout

System integration

Hardware bring-up

Cross-functional collaboration

C/C++/Python

Tools

BGAs

Rigid-flex

MIPI/CSI

FPD-Link

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to help develop the next generation of robotic systems across hardware lifecycle—from concept through PCB layout, bring-up, and deployment.

You will own electrical architecture, work with mechanical, firmware, software, and research teams, and make design tradeoffs to deliver robust, compact systems that meet aggressive constraints.