Senior Electrical Design Engineer

present of AI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Humanoid in Boston seeks a senior electrical design engineer for robotics. You will own board-level design, power electronics, motor drive electronics, sensor interfaces, and harness architecture for a complex humanoid robot used in industrial settings.

This role emphasizes compact, robust hardware that performs in real factory environments and requires hands-on bring-up, schematic capture, and close collaboration with mechanical and software teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on electrical design experience across board level, power electronics, and motor-drive electronics.
• Experience with schematic capture, PCB layout review, and hardware bring-up.
• Ability to collaborate closely with mechanical and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Owns board-level design, power electronics, motor drive electronics, sensor interfaces, and harness architecture for a complex robotic system.
• Work closely with mechanical and software teams to ensure robust, compact, and reliable hardware for factory environments.
• Perform hardware bring up, debugging, and iterations to meet real-world vibration and thermal conditions.

Skills

Board level design

Power electronics

Motor drive electronics

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Hardware bring up

Sensor interfaces

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

A senior electrical design engineer in robotics typically owns board level design, power electronics, motor drive electronics, sensor interfaces, and harness architecture for a complex machine. A strong candidate brings several years of hands on electrical design, schematic capture, PCB layout review, and hardware bring up, plus comfort working closely with mechanical and software teams. For a company building humanoid robots for industrial work, that means designing electrical systems that must be compact, robust, and reliable in real factory environments.

How it fits the AI era

AI changes the design loop more than the design itself. Simulation, layout checks, component selection, and test data analysis get faster with AI tools, so more time goes to architecture choices, thermal and power tradeoffs, and debugging hardware that does not behave as modeled. The physical judgment about what will survive vibration, heat, and continuous industrial duty stays human.

How it builds AI experience

Working on humanoid robots paired with an AI framework means electrical systems feed perception, motion, and control software, so the role builds experience in designing hardware that supports real time compute, sensing, and actuation. That experience comes from hands on bring up, instrumentation, and iterating on hardware alongside software teams. It is a practical path into AI adjacent hardware rather than model building.

Worth showing

• PCB design and layout
• Hardware bring up

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About Humanoid

Humanoid builds humanoid robots for industrial work, paired with its KinetIQ AI framework (per the company).