Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (On-site)

present of AI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Bots in Boston, MA is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (On-site) to lead the hardware for a mobile robot base. You will define the electrical and mechanical architecture and guide a team of engineers from concept to certified production.

You will own the power system hands-on, including battery pack and charger integration, high-current distribution, and safe cutoff. A strong candidate has shipped battery-powered mobile robots through third-party safety certification and

Qualifications

• Leads hardware design for a mobile robot base.
• Defines electrical and mechanical architecture and guides a team.
• Owns power system from battery pack to safe cutoff.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware design for a mobile robot base.
• Define electrical and mechanical architecture.
• Oversee a team of engineers from concept to production.
• Own power system, including battery pack and charger integration and high-current distribution.
• Ensure safety certification readiness.

Skills

Hardware leadership

Power systems

Battery integration

High-current layout

Tools

Altium

Job description

Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (On-site)

Engineering · Boston, MA · FullTime · Senior level

This role leads the hardware for a mobile robot base, setting the electrical and mechanical architecture and guiding a team of engineers from first concept to a certified, produced fleet. The person also owns the power system hands on, from battery pack and charger integration to high current distribution and safe cutoff. A strong candidate has shipped battery powered mobile robots through third party safety certification and still does deep design and bench work alongside the team.

How it fits the AI era

The company pairs robot arms with an AI platform that lets workers train machines by demonstration, so the hardware must be reliable enough for that software to trust. AI speeds up simulation, test automation and fault analysis, but power architecture, safety functions and certification evidence still rest on careful human engineering. The role sits where physical safety and machine learning meet, and the electrical decisions set the limits the AI can work within.

How it builds AI experience

Working here builds familiarity with an AI driven instruction platform for robots and with test automation in Python. The safety and power work gives grounding in how autonomous mobile machines are validated, which matters as more AI control reaches factory floors. Candidates can strengthen this by practicing automated test scripts and studying functional safety for mobile robots.

Worth showing

• AMR safety certification
• Battery pack integration
• Altium high current layout
• Hardware team leadership

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About Standard Bots

Standard Bots makes US-built industrial robot arms that workers can train by showing them what to do, through an AI platform, instead of writing traditional robot code.