Senior Electrical Engineer – Robotic Hands & Motor Drives

foundation-robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision

Dental

401k

Equity

Job summary

Foundation is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for the Humanoid Hands Team in San Francisco to design motor driver circuits, embedded systems, and PCBs that enable dexterous manipulation. Experience with hands-on hardware and tight spec compliance is essential.

You will own end-to-end hardware design, collaborate with firmware, and drive production-ready improvements while mentoring juniors. A strong passion for building new hardware is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Strong motor driver and embedded systems expertise for compact, high-reliability hardware.
• Experience designing embedded systems (MCUs, DSPs, FPGAs) in demanding environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end PCB design for robotic hand controllers including schematics, layout, and BOM selection.
• Design and develop motor driver and motor controller circuits for various motors used in hand joints.
• Evaluate and integrate motor driver ICs and power stages including gate drivers, H-bridges, and FOC controllers.
• Develop custom force and tactile sensors with aggressive size and reliability requirements.
• Design embedded systems and mixed-signal circuits (MCUs, FPGAs, sensors, power, communications).
• Perform board bring-up, validation, and debugging.
• Guide junior engineers and review schematic and layout work.
• Interface with firmware engineers to define board-level APIs and support hardware abstraction.
• Drive DFM, DFT, and EMC improvements as designs move to production.

Skills

Motor driver

Embedded systems

High-reliability hardware

Debugging

Mentorship

Signal integrity basics

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

KiCad

Cadence

JTAG

Job description

Foundation is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for the Humanoid Hands Team in San Francisco to design motor driver circuits, embedded systems, and PCBs that enable dexterous manipulation. Experience with hands-on hardware and tight spec compliance is essential.

You will own end-to-end hardware design, collaborate with firmware, and drive production-ready improvements while mentoring juniors. A strong passion for building new hardware is required.