Staff Electrical Engineer

About The Role

This role is integral to the design of the next generation of Digit, aimed at meeting customer needs at a commercial scale. The Staff Electrical Engineer will be responsible for driving robot hardware architecture, as well as designing and developing robust and reliable hardware for this new robot generation. Collaboration with a multi-discipline team of engineers is essential to understand product requirements and ensure designs are robust, safe, and production-ready.

About The Work

The Staff Electrical Engineer's responsibilities include:

• Acting as an electrical engineering architect and leader for major subsystem design
• Performing project and technical leadership for a subsystem, including collecting status in leaf-level scrums (or equivalent) to report into a daily Scrum-of-Scrums.
• Translating product requirements into engineering specifications and ensuring cross-functional alignment across multiple domains, especially collaborating with mechanical design teams to close on PCB mechanical requirements.
• Collaborating with internal and external test, QA, Safety, and manufacturing teams to enhance design for safety, test, manufacturing, and assembly
• Developing and executing test plans for intermediate and final products, including test fixture design and software development
• Implementing Printed Circuit Board schematics and implementing and/or overseeing PCB layout to create PCB engineering deliverables for release.
• Managing internal stakeholders (Purchasing, Ops, etc.), component vendors/selection, layout contractors, and fab and assembly houses to achieve aggressive prototype fab and assembly goals.
• Lead verification and validation of subsystem and boards, including EMC and safety.
• Leading cross-functional design and release reviews against design and verification checklists, improving the quality and efficiency of reviews and checklists
• Leading debugging efforts and root cause analysis for hardware and software defects within Engineering, Systems, and Operations
• Mentoring, coaching, and delegating EE support work (checklists, verification) to Senior and entry-level EEs.
• Managing _________ ambiguity - (capable of  filling in the blanks)

About You

Candidates should possess the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
• A minimum of 10 years of electrical design experience, with at least 2 years specifically in robotics
• Extensive experience with Altium for schematic entry, PCB layout, and harness development, coupled with strong manufacturing test capabilities and knowledge of EMC compliance
• Proficiency in embedded controls, high-speed differential signaling, microcontrollers, memory buses, digital design, and power electronics
• Demonstrated skills in collaborative design, conflict resolution, and team development
• 3D visualization capabilities to imagine and optimize space-constrained circuitry in challenging mechanical and thermal environments
• Enjoys and thrives at working in a dynamic, fast-growing environment where you will be meeting new colleagues every week.

Bonus Points

Candidates with the following will be highly regarded:

• An advanced degree with robotics experience
• Technical knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of:
• High-capacity Li batteries and BMS implementations
• DC-DC conversion (switching power supplies, standard and LDO linear regulators)
• EtherCAT or Ethernet
• Sensor fusion (Lidar, radar, cameras, etc.)
• RF SOM and antenna design, Bluetooth
• Flex circuit design
• Cable harness design (esp. Altium Harness experience)
• Analog design, esp. sensing and instrumentation (sensors, op-amps & A/Ds)
• Motors and motor control