Senior Electrical Engineer - Robotics & Automation

Berkshire Grey; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Berkshire Grey is seeking a highly skilled Electrical Engineer to drive the end-to-end design and deployment of automation systems. You will contribute from concept through production, delivering robust electrical designs for robotics and material-handling applications.

Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in industrial electrical design, safety compliance, and hands-on troubleshooting across sensors, drives, and motor systems.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or similar field.
• Eight or more years of related work experience in material handling, process automation, piece part automation or semiconductor.
• Significant experience designing and bringing automation systems into production.
• Willing to dive into entire life cycle of electrical design from ideation to production support and troubleshooting.
• Developing and maintaining electrical interconnect and cable designs in AutoCAD or AutoCAD Electrical.
• PCB design, development, and deployment; experience with Altium preferred.
• Equipment such as conveyor systems, robot arms, photo eyes, proximity sensors, VFD drives, barcode scanners, safety controllers.
• Electrical system and component design - DC, analog, single phase and three phase; 220-480V hardware & standards.
• Motor architectures in the 50W-3kW range.
• Functional safety devices and relation to Safety Performance Level.
• Hands-on troubleshooting of electrical systems, sensors, mechanical systems, and controls logic.
• Designing to UL/CE standards compliance.
• Root cause analysis and rollout of updates including service bulletins.
• Selection and control of BLDC, servo, stepper and induction motors.
• Sensing solutions including retroreflective, inductive proximity, Reed switches, and load cells.
• SolidWorks or comparable 3D CAD tool.

Responsibilities

• Lead concepting, design, prototyping, and testing of new designs.
• Launch products into production and support deployed systems.
• Turn unclear problems into practical solutions within a team of experts.
• Troubleshoot electrical systems and controls logic across life-cycle stages.

Skills

Electrical design

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

System integration

Motor control

Safety engineering

Sensing & robotics

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

AutoCAD Electrical

Altium

SolidWorks

Job description

Berkshire Grey is seeking a highly skilled Electrical Engineer to drive the end-to-end design and deployment of automation systems. You will contribute from concept through production, delivering robust electrical designs for robotics and material-handling applications.

Ideal candidates bring extensive experience in industrial electrical design, safety compliance, and hands-on troubleshooting across sensors, drives, and motor systems.