Senior Electrical Engineer, Robotics & Automation

Machina Labs; California; On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

PTO

Job summary

Machina Labs is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electrical design for its robotic manufacturing platforms. You will own architecture, interfaces, and supplier relationships while guiding cost, schedule, and production readiness.

The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Mechanical, Robotics, and Manufacturing teams. The ideal candidate has led electrical design for industrial machinery or automation, achieved compliance, and is eager to mentor others as

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 environments.
• Fluency in electrical CAD (EPLAN, SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD Electrical, or similar).
• Experience as the engineering owner for contract electrical system builds such as panels or harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical design across the production cell and future platforms, including the electrical record.
• Set the electrical architecture and documentation approach reusable across platforms.
• Define and govern interfaces between robot controllers, PLC panels, end effectors, and instrumentation.
• Perform power distribution, grounding and signal integrity analysis for 480VAC and 24VDC systems.
• Partner with controls and software teams on I/O, safety logic, and industrial network architecture.
• Lead investigation of complex electrical problems and deliver root causes.
• Own relationships with outsourced panel and harness suppliers; drive quality and build repeatability.

Skills

Electrical design leadership

Industrial machinery experience

Power distribution (480VAC)

EMI/EMC mitigation

Electrical CAD

Controls integration

Documentation & change control

ITAR compliance

Onsite work

Industrial safety standards

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 for its robotic manufacturing platforms. You will own architecture, interfaces, and supplier relationships while guiding cost, schedule, and production readiness.

The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Mechanical, Robotics, and Manufacturing teams. The ideal candidate has led electrical design for industrial machinery or automation, achieved compliance, and is eager to mentor others as