Senior Electrical Engineer, Motor Control, Fauna

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead the design and development of power and motion control systems for robotic platforms. You will guide actuator selection, design PCBs, and collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams to ensure safe, reliable operation.

Your work will emphasize motor control, power delivery, EMI/EMC, and thermal management for high-power electronics in compact mobile systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in power electronics used in robotics systems.
• Background in designing and validating motor control PCBs.
• Ability to collaborate with firmware and mechanical teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual designs and conduct trade studies for actuator selection.
• Lead design, layout, and validation of PCBs for power distribution and motor control.
• Develop test and measurement infrastructure for power electronics and motor control.
• Collaborate with firmware engineers on real-time control strategies.
• Work with mechanical engineers to integrate thermal management for high-power electronics.
• Support integration, bring-up and testing of prototype actuators with firmware and mechanical teams.
• Ensure EMI/EMC compliance, signal integrity, and thermal design for a compact mobile system.
• Work with vendors and contract manufacturers to source components and oversee production.

Skills

Power electronics

BLDC control

PCB design

Sensor integration

EMI/EMC compliance

Thermal management

Vendor management

Job description

Description

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead the design and development of our power and motion control systems for our robotic systems. This role will select, define and design the future of our robot actuators with a focus on motor control and power delivery. The right candidate has proven experience in shipping products with elements of power electronics and BLDC control.

Key job responsibilities

• - Develop conceptual designs and conduct trade studies to support actuator selection and design
• - Lead the design, layout, and validation of PCBs for power distribution, motor controllers, gate drivers, and sensor integration for actuator and motor control systems.
• - Develop test and measurement infrastructure for power electronics and motor control
• - Collaborate with firmware engineers on real-time control strategies
• - Work with mechanical engineers to integrate thermal management solutions for high-power electronics and motors
• - Support integration, bring-up, debugging, and testing of prototype actuators, working closely with firmware and mechanical teams
• - Ensure EMI/EMC compliance, signal integrity, and thermal design best practices for high-reliability electronics in a compact mobile system
• - Work with vendors and contract manufacturers to source high-quality components and oversee the production of key electronics subsystems

About the team

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful.
At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.