Senior Electrical Engineer

Engineering · Sunnyvale, US

Job description

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 Senior 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 compute boards, camera electronics, power distribution boards, battery management systems, sensing boards, or motor controllers
  • 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 graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Solid EE fundamentals with hands-on experience designing, building, and testing PCBAs
  • Mastery of Altium in both schematics and layout
  • Mastery of debugging HW issues. You know how to attack a problem, document, and come up with solutions quickly

Bonus Qualifications: 

  • Experience with Camera Electronics
  • Designed high speed boards (PCIe Gen1-5, USB3/4, MIPI, GMSL, 10G Ethernet) with high current power supplies for compute modules
  • Understanding of signal integrity issues and how to mitigate them
  • Experience with very small boards (HDI, flex, rigid flex)
  • Experience using LTspice and Python
  • Embedded programming of DSPs, microcontrollers, and FPGAs