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Systems Integration Engineer, Embedded Systems / Mechatronics

Meta· Hardware
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Redmond, WA$173k - $245kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role focused on bringing up new hardware, integrating subsystems, and driving repeatable, scalable production builds for robotics hardware and embedded systems. Combines bench debugging with process improvement to achieve first-pass yield and reliable manufacturing as volumes scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead bring-up of new platforms, actuator generations, and subassemblies: power-on, firmware flashing, calibration, sensor validation, closed-loop tuning, and first motion
  • Integrate subsystems end to end — actuators, encoders, IMUs, tactile and force sensing, cameras, power distribution, comms buses (CAN/CAN-FD, EtherCAT, SPI/I2C, Ethernet), and onboard compute
  • Own system-level behavior and interfaces: define and hold the mechanical, electrical, and software interface contracts between subsystems, and arbitrate the tradeoffs when they conflict
  • Debug hard, ambiguous, cross-domain problems — intermittent faults, noise and grounding issues, timing and latency, thermal behavior, mechanical compliance masquerading as a control problem
  • Write and modify embedded firmware and host-side tooling (C/C++, Python) for bring-up, calibration, diagnostics, and data capture
  • Own the integration test plan: define what 'working' means per subsystem, automate the checks, and keep them passing as the design changes underneath them
  • Characterize system performance against spec — accuracy, bandwidth, torque and thermal envelope, latency, power — and feed the gaps back to design as concrete requirements
  • Build the data path: logging, telemetry, and analysis tooling that turns robot runs and test builds into duty-cycle, performance, and reliability evidence the team can design against
  • Contribute to functional safety — including risk assessment, safety review participation, and validation of safe-state behavior
  • Carry your own designs and integrations into a repeatable build: define the assembly and calibration sequence, the acceptance criteria at each stage, and the work instructions behind them
  • Design, build, and deploy test stations and end-of-line test: fixturing, harnesses, DAQ, load application, station software, limits, and the data logging behind them
  • Drive first-pass yield and cycle time on the builds you own: find the top failure contributors and close them with design, firmware, process, or fixture changes
  • Establish calibration and traceability at scale — per-unit calibration data, serialization, and a data trail that supports later failure analysis and field investigations
  • Bring DFM/DFA and DFT thinking into design reviews — testability, tolerance realism, and assembly practicality, pushed in before the design is locked
  • Support NPI builds hands-on (EVT/DVT/PVT) and partner with CMs and suppliers on process transfer, station duplication, and incoming quality; travel to build sites as needed
  • Partner with design ME/EE/FW, controls, quality, manufacturing engineering, and lab operations; document interfaces and processes so integration knowledge does not live in one person's head

Qualifications

  • BS in Mechatronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Robotics, Manufacturing, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent
  • 7+ years building, debugging, and transitioning real electromechanical systems from prototype into volume — systems that had to work outside a simulator and be built more than once
  • Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded targets and Python for tooling, station software, and analysis
  • AI-native working style: uses AI coding agents and LLM tooling as a default part of the job to scaffold bring-up scripts, station software, and log-analysis pipelines, while independently validating AI-produced results against hardware and data before it drives a decision
  • Hands-on electronics skills: reading schematics, bring-up of custom boards, soldering, harness fabrication, oscilloscope/logic-analyzer/DMM debugging
  • Demonstrated ownership of a test station or automated test process you designed, deployed, and maintained for others to use
  • Practical experience with at least one real-time comms bus (CAN/CAN-FD, EtherCAT, RS-485, SPI/I2C) and with motor drives or servo systems
  • Working understanding of closed-loop control: PID, feedforward, current/velocity/position cascades, filtering, and why a tuned gain stops working when mechanics change
  • Mechanical literacy: reading GD&T-annotated drawings, CAD (Creo, SolidWorks, or similar), tolerance stack-ups, fastener and preload basics
  • Experience writing work instructions, test plans, and process documentation others actually follow
  • Disciplined software habits — version control, code review, reproducible scripts

Skills

Required:C/C++PythonEmbedded firmware developmentReal-time communication buses
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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