Senior Electrical Engineer

Standard Bots; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Life insurance & disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock options

Job summary

Standard Bots is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to own the electronics at the heart of our robots, including motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, battery management, and sensing boards. You will work with Mechanical, Software, and Functional Safety teams to ship hardware that is reliable and scalable.

You’ll design, validate, and release PCBAs, drive critical architecture decisions, and lead design reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years designing, building, and testing PCBAs with production release experience.
• Deep hands-on electronics experience across motor drives, power electronics, embedded compute.
• Ability to lead design reviews and mentor engineers in a fast-paced hardware team.

Responsibilities

• Own PCBAs for motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, and sensing boards from concept to production release.
• Drive architecture choices through trade studies and define system requirements.
• Schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, test plans, and debugging in the lab.
• Lead reviews and maintain component library, release checklists, and DFM/DFT practices.
• Serve as primary technical contact for PCB fabrication/assembly vendors and address production issues.
• Mentor associate and mid-level engineers on technical and professional growth.

Skills

Hands-on electronics

Lab troubleshooting

Schematic capture

Design reviews

Mentoring

Vendor communication

Education

EE degree

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

• We’re looking for a seasoned electrical engineer to own the electronics at the heart of our robots: motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, battery management, and sensing boards
• As a Senior Electrical Engineer you will take designs from concept through production release, work hands-on in the lab, and partner with Mechanical, Software, and Functional Safety engineers to ship hardware that is simple, reliable, and manufacturable at scale
• Own the design and validation of PCBAs for critical robot subsystems — motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, battery management, and sensing boards — from concept through production release
• Drive key architecture and component decisions through conceptual design, requirements definition, and trade studies, and advise hardware leadership on technical strategy
• Do the hands-on, technically deep work: schematic capture, PCB layout (including high-current power and high-speed digital), board bring-up, test plans, and root-cause debugging in the lab
• Lead design reviews and own the component library, release process, and design checklists that keep the team fast and consistent
• Be the primary technical contact for PCB fabrication and assembly vendors; drive DFM/DFA feedback into designs, and support production issues
• Mentor and advise associate and mid-level engineers on technical and personal advancement
• On-site, you’ll have a fully equipped electronics lab, production robots, and our manufacturing floor steps from your desk

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance & disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee stock options

Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds

Debugging Mastery: You know how to attack a hardware problem with a scope, logic/protocol analyzer, and bench instruments, document what you find, and converge on a fix quickly

Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication — clear design documentation, crisp trade studies, and design reviews that make your peers better

Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity, and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed designs or incumbent hardware

Tool Fluency: You’re proficient in Altium Designer (or similar EDA tools) for schematic capture and multi-layer layout, including constraint-driven routing for high-speed and high-current designs

Our ideal candidate will be open to spending roughly 60% of their time on design (architecture, schematics, layout) and 40% on lab, integration, and manufacturing support (bring-up, debug, vendor and production issues), with flexibility to sway more toward one or the other depending on current projects and team needs

We’re looking for engineers who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful

We don’t require a background in robotics — but we do require deep, hands‑on electronics experience

We have no requirement for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply deep electronics expertise — from motor drives, power electronics, embedded compute, automotive, or aerospace — to robots they can watch move

Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism; a reliable, manufacturable board that ships beats an elegant one that never leaves the lab

EE Depth: You have mastery of power electronics (motor drivers and inverter stages, switch‑mode supplies, power sequencing and protection), digital electronics (MCUs, FPGAs, Ethernet, USB, SPI/I2C/UART, signal‑integrity fundamentals), and analog electronics (op‑amps, filters, ADC/DAC signal chains, precision sensing)

Experience: You have a bachelor’s or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering (or a related field) and 5+ years designing, building, and testing PCBAs, including designs you’ve taken through production release

Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact

High-speed design (PCIe Gen1–5, USB3/4, MIPI, GMSL, 10G Ethernet) with high-current power delivery for compute modules, and a working understanding of signal and power integrity (impedance control, crosstalk, PDN) and how to mitigate issues

Camera electronics and image sensor integration (MIPI, GMSL, sensor power and clocking)

Motor electromagnetic design and motor control (FOC, current sensing, encoder interfaces), or control systems for robotic manipulation or locomotion

Dense or space-constrained boards (HDI, flex, rigid-flex) and their fabrication trade-offs

Embedded programming of DSPs, MCUs, and FPGAs; LTspice and Python for simulation, analysis, and test automation

Real-time industrial fieldbuses (EtherCAT, CAN/CANopen, EtherNet/IP) and safety‑rated electronics to ISO 13849 or IEC 61508 (redundant architectures, STO, safety fieldbus)

EMC/EMI design and regulatory compliance testing (CE/UL, IEC 61000 series), including pre‑compliance debugging

Taking products from prototype through NPI to volume manufacturing — DFM/DFT, test fixtures, yield improvement