The Role
The Power Electronics Engineer will design and test hardware for a humanoid robot, focusing on power architectures, PCBAs like power converters and motor controllers, and supporting integration and debugging efforts.
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 Power Electronics Engineer to help us design and test critical hardware to power our Humanoid.
Responsibilities:
- Develop conceptual power architectures and conduct trade studies to support key design decisions
- Design and validate PCBAs for critical components of the humanoid like power converters and motor controllers
- Support design reviews (schematics, layouts, etc)
- Support system integration and test activities by contributing to test execution and debugging
Requirements:
- Bachelor or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Knowledge of power converter topologies and control theory
- Experience working with low voltage (60V) DC/DC power converters or motor controllers
- Experience sizing and designing discrete power electronics (controllers, gate drivers, MOSFETs, inductors, XFRMs, caps, sensing, etc)
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with Altium
- Experience with PCB layout, designing for power converters and EMC mitigations
- Experience simulating power electronic circuits
- Experience with high voltage applications and protection circuitry
- Experience working with embedded control systems and/or digital power control
- Strong knowledge of C or Python
Top Skills
C
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.
