The Role
As an Electrical Engineer, you will design and test critical hardware components for a humanoid robot, focusing on power distribution, battery management, and various electronic boards. Responsibilities include developing designs, conducting trade studies, validating PCBAs, and participating in system integration and testing.
Summary Generated by Built In
Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration.
We are looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer to design and test critical hardware components of our humanoid.
Responsibilities:
- Develop conceptual designs and conduct trade studies to support key design decisions
- Design and validate PCBAs for critical components of the Humanoid like power distribution boards, battery management systems, sensing boards, motor controllers or compute boards
- Contribute to the definition of our PCBA design and test process
- Support the review of design artifacts (schematics, layouts, bill of materials…) from your peers or external suppliers
- Support system integration and test activities by contributing to test execution and debugging
Requirements:
- Bachelor or Master degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Solid EE fundamentals with hands-on experience designing, building, and testing PCBAs
- Mastery of Altium (or similar EDA tools) in both schematics and layout
- Mastery of power electronics (motor driver, switch mode power supplies…), digital electronics (MCU, FPGA, Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C…), and analog electronics (filters, ADC/DAC…)
- Mastery of debugging HW issues. You know how to attack a problem, document, and come up with solutions quickly
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience using LTspice, Python, and Matlab
- Embedded programming of DSPs, microcontrollers, and FPGAs
- Experience with Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical CAD tools (Catia, SolidWorks…)
Top Skills
Python
The Company
What We Do
Figure is an AI Robotics company building the world's first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA.
