Senior Electrical Engineer, Industrial Robotics Automation

Machina Labs; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PTO

Stock options

Job summary

Machina Labs is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electrical design across our robotic manufacturing platforms. You will own electrical architecture, define interfaces between controllers, panels, and sensors, and drive compliance with UL/IEC and safety standards.

You will mentor engineers, set documentation practices, and partner with controls and software teams to ensure production-ready solutions. This role requires hands-on experience and onsite work in Chatsworth, CA.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of electrical engineering on industrial machinery, robotics, CNC, or automation equipment, including end-to-end ownership of electrical design across multiple machines or a platform.
• Experience setting electrical standards, running design reviews, and developing other engineers.
• Electronic system, device, or instrumentation design, including PCBA schematics, bring‑up, test, and validation.
• 480VAC power distribution and 24VDC control: panel design, drives, PLC I/O, safety circuits, grounding.
• Industrial network design (EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET).
• Diagnosing or mitigating EMI/EMC issues on servo drives and sensor wiring in high‑noise industrial environments (shielding, grounding, cable routing).
• Fluency in electrical CAD (EPLAN, SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD Electrical, or similar) and producing release-quality schematics and harness drawings.
• Experience as the engineering owner for contract electrical system builds such as panels or harnesses.
• Strong documentation and change control discipline.
• Must be a U.S. person as defined under ITAR, due to access to export‑controlled information.
• Able to work onsite in Chatsworth, CA, with occasional travel to suppliers, customers, or additional Machina factory sites.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical design across the production cell and future platforms, including the electrical record: schematics, interconnect diagrams, panel layouts, and harness drawings, released and revision-controlled in PDM.
• Set the electrical architecture and documentation approach that can be reused across platforms.
• Define and govern interfaces between robot controllers, PLC panels, end effectors, and instrumentation under change control, and make the architecture, protection, and interface calls that affect cost, schedule, and production readiness.
• Perform, document, and set the practice for power distribution, grounding and bonding, and signal integrity analysis for 480VAC and 24VDC systems, drives, sensors, and I/O.
• Partner with the controls and software team, who own PLC and robot programming, on I/O, safety logic, and industrial network architecture.
• Lead investigation of complex and intermittent electrical problems across power, controls, and integration, and deliver root causes.

Skills

Electrical design

Industrial machinery

Robotics integration

Power distribution

EMI/EMC analysis

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

EPLAN

SolidWorks Electrical

AutoCAD Electrical

Job description

Machina Labs is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electrical design across our robotic manufacturing platforms. You will own electrical architecture, define interfaces between controllers, panels, and sensors, and drive compliance with UL/IEC and safety standards.

You will mentor engineers, set documentation practices, and partner with controls and software teams to ensure production-ready solutions. This role requires hands-on experience and onsite work in Chatsworth, CA.