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Senior Electrical Engineer

Skild AI· Engineering
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San Mateo$180k - $240kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Electrical Engineer to own electrical system integration across robotics platforms, bridging software/firmware and kinematic control, with internal expertise in grounding, shielding, filtering, signal integrity, wireless integration, and EMC from concept through production.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and validate power and sensor electronics systems
  • Design and validate motor driver circuits and power electronics systems
  • Integrate and fuse sensor data, including IMUs, encoders, hall sensors, and temperature sensors at the PCB level
  • Define grounding, bonding, shielding, filtering, and cable strategies across the robot
  • Identify EMC risks early and drive practical mitigations before they become late-stage issues
  • Debug EMC and hardware issues using scopes, spectrum analyzers, probes, LISNs, network analyzers, and other lab equipment
  • Make system-level tradeoffs across performance, risk, cost, schedule, and manufacturability
  • Partner across EE, ME, firmware, controls, systems, manufacturing, and external labs and consultants
  • Document design processes and contribute to hardware best practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related field, plus relevant work experience
  • Hands-on experience taking electrical hardware from concept through validation and production
  • Hands-on experience with EMC/EMI design, debugging, and test on complex hardware
  • Strong knowledge of grounding, shielding, filtering, signal integrity, and power integrity
  • Proficiency in power electronics design, motor drives, switching power, high-current DC systems, battery management, and analog circuit design
  • Strong understanding of sensor integration, including IMUs, encoders, hall sensors, and cameras
  • Experience with RF systems, antenna integration, coexistence, and impedance control
  • Strong PCB design and layout skills with a system-level approach to EMC problems
  • Familiarity with communication protocols and interfaces such as GMSL, CAN, Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C, and RS-485
  • Comfortable debugging in the lab, modifying hardware, and building quick test fixtures
  • Strong judgment and comfort making decisions with incomplete or changing requirements
  • Able to communicate tradeoffs clearly and drive decisions across multiple disciplines

Skills

Required:Electrical system integrationEMC/EMI design and debuggingPower electronics designSensor integrationPCB design and layout
Nice to have:RF systems and impedance control
Last updated Sep 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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