Senior Electrical Engineer Robotics Test Platform Architect

BrightHire Search Partners; Warwick (RI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BrightHire Search Partners seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our robotics and automation team in Warwick, RI. You will design and build custom test platforms for high-volume manufacturing, from PCB through final assembly.

You will interface IO, relays, testers, and instruments, and work on AOI/camera systems, robotics handling, and the Windows GUI software used by operators and technicians. Strong analog/digital circuit analysis and PCB design experience with tools like Eagle, KiCad or

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• 3-15+ years as an Electrical Engineer in hardware/manufacturing.
• PCB design experience in Eagle, KiCad, PCB123, or similar.
• Strong analog and digital circuit analysis.
• Experience designing or adapting custom test hardware and fixtures for a circuit-board manufacturing environment, including bed-of-nails platforms and instrument control.
• Working knowledge of Python, C# or C.
• Experience with communication protocols like RS-232, RS-485, I2C, SPI.

Responsibilities

• Design and build custom test platforms.
• Design hardware and fixture systems at ICT, subassembly/module, and end-of-line levels.
• Interface custom IO, relay banks, programmers (JTAG, serial, I2C, SPI), and off-the-shelf instruments: programmable supplies, DMMs, scopes, spectrum analyzers, HiPot, programmable loads.
• Incorporate AOI / camera systems (placement, polarity, LCD calibration) and mechanical actuation where needed — solenoids or servos that press membrane keys and buttons so the circuit is proven, not just visually inspected.
• Work with Manufacturing and the team’s robotics engineer on automated handling: robots that pick boards from magazines, place them on one of several fixtures, scan barcodes, close the fixture, and route pass vs. fail.
• Write the software operators and technicians actually use.
• Develop and modify Windows GUI / application software that drives the test (historically Delphi / Pascal and C#; C++ or strong Python plus object-oriented fundamentals is a workable foundation).

Skills

Python

C#

C

Education

BS in Electrical / Computer Engineering

Tools

Eagle

KiCad

PCB123

Delphi

Pascal

C++

Windows GUI development

Job description

BrightHire Search Partners seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our robotics and automation team in Warwick, RI. You will design and build custom test platforms for high-volume manufacturing, from PCB through final assembly.

You will interface IO, relays, testers, and instruments, and work on AOI/camera systems, robotics handling, and the Windows GUI software used by operators and technicians. Strong analog/digital circuit analysis and PCB design experience with tools like Eagle, KiCad or