Senior Electrical Engineer, Robotics Hardware (On‑Site)

Kovari; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kovari, based in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to own electrical subsystems of our robots from concept to production. You’ll design power architecture, battery systems, and sensors, and you’ll bring up boards and harnesses for live operations.

You will work closely with embedded teams, tune motor controllers, select and integrate drives, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with vendors to deliver robust field hardware.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hardware design and shipping experience.
• Strong fundamentals in power electronics, motor drives, and mixed-signal design.
• Track record owning electrical subsystems end-to-end from concept through production.
• Schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium or KiCad.
• Experience with PCB bring-up, power, motor control, and embedded integration.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical architecture and subsystem design from concept through production: power distribution, battery systems and BMS, charging, protection.
• Select, integrate, and tune motor controllers and drives for performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Design schematics and PCBs for power, sensing, and I/O, and lead PCB bring‑up.
• Integrate sensors: cameras, IMUs, encoders, force/torque, proximity.
• Design and build wiring harnesses for reliability and serviceability.
• Work with embedded systems on firmware, CAN, EtherCAT, RS-485, and bring-up.
• Debug electrical failures on deployed robots and feed fixes back into the design.
• Manage vendors and manufacturers for PCBs, harnesses, and custom assemblies, and mentor juniors.

Skills

Power electronics

Motor drives

Mixed-signal design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Altium

KiCad

Embedded integration

Battery systems

Harness design

Soldering / rework

Vendor management

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

Kovari, based in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to own electrical subsystems of our robots from concept to production. You’ll design power architecture, battery systems, and sensors, and you’ll bring up boards and harnesses for live operations.

You will work closely with embedded teams, tune motor controllers, select and integrate drives, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with vendors to deliver robust field hardware.