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Electrical Design Engineer, Power Electronics

Mind Robotics· Hardware Engineering
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Palo AltoFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Power Electronics Engineer responsible for owning Mind Robotics' power architecture end to end, from distribution to motor inverters, setting design standards, and guiding cross-team collaboration with hands-on bring-up and validation.

Responsibilities

  • Own the robot’s power architecture end to end, from distribution across compute, actuation, sensing and peripherals to the motor inverters.
  • Decide what the power system solves next, set priorities against power density, thermal, cost and reliability targets, and defend tradeoffs to program leads.
  • Make strategic calls on topology, Si/GaN/SiC, make vs. buy and supplier strategy, and commit power specs and dates to the program.
  • Set power design standards adopted by other hardware teams (derating, layout, EMI, protection and validation).
  • Lead cross-team design reviews and mentor engineers.
  • Stay hands-on with distribution networks, inverter stages with discrete gate drivers, DC-DC conversion, current sensing and protection.
  • Deliver high power density within tight thermal limits from PCB design through bring-up, validation and fault injection.
  • Own the power side of firmware and telemetry interfaces (EtherCAT, PMBus, I2C, SPI), connectors and pinouts.
  • Manage fabricators and suppliers for delivery, DFM and second sourcing.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Has owned a product’s power architecture, not just individual boards, that other teams built against.
  • Deep expertise in either power distribution or inverter power stages, with architecture decisions spanning both.
  • Strong DC-DC design skills, including topology, magnetics and loop compensation, plus current sensing and protection circuits.
  • Strong high-current layout, EMI/EMC, bring-up and measurement skills, including double-pulse testing and gate-drive characterization.
  • Experience with harnesses, connectors, volume manufacturing and contract manufacturers.
  • Has set design standards adopted beyond their own team.
  • Strong pluses: EtherCAT and GaN/SiC experience.

Skills

Required:Power architecture designDC-DC designLayout and EMI/EMCFirmware and telemetry (EtherCAT, PMBus, I2C, SPI)
Nice to have:Supplier management and DFMGaN/SiC experience

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mind Robotics

Physical AI for the Real World

Mind Robotics is building intelligent robotics for industrial deployment. We believe the fastest path to broadly capable robots is through clearly defined, high-impact environments. We are starting where the need is most.

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