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OpenAIOpenAISan Francisco, CA

Electrical Engineer, Robotics

Electrical Engineer owning full hardware lifecycle for next-gen robotic systems, from concept and PCB design through bring-up, validation, and deployment in compact electromechanical platforms.

295k – 380k
On-site6+ YOEHardware Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own significant portions of the electrical architecture for compact, highly integrated robotic and electromechanical systems, including sensing, communication, power distribution, and actuator interfaces.
  • Design and implement compact electronics spanning circuit design, component selection, PCB layout, bring-up, validation, and deployment.
  • Build and validate hardware in integrated robotic systems, driving issues from first observation through root cause and design resolution.
  • Partner closely with mechanical, firmware, software, controls, manufacturing, and research teams to deliver coherent system-level solutions.
  • Make thoughtful engineering tradeoffs across performance, size, power, reliability, manufacturability, and iteration speed.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience developing electrical systems for robotics, consumer electronics, medical devices, wearables, cameras, or other tightly integrated electromechanical products.
  • Have personally owned hardware from concept through PCB layout, bring-up, validation, and deployment.
  • Experience designing compact, high-density electronics that must fit within severe mechanical constraints.
  • Experience with technologies such as BGAs, rigid-flex assemblies, fine-pitch interconnects, micro-coax, FPCs, dense connector systems, or similar packaging approaches.
  • Ability to reason across electrical, firmware, and mechanical boundaries when making design decisions.
  • Comfort taking ownership of loosely defined problems and turning them into working systems with limited direction.
  • Experience partnering closely with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into practical hardware systems.
  • Experience building and validating integrated prototypes where mechanical, electrical, firmware, and sensing systems are developed together.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with GMSL, MIPI/CSI, FPD-Link, or other high-speed camera interfaces.
  • Experience with multi-board robotic or electromechanical systems that include distributed sensing, actuation, and real-time communication.
  • Experience bringing hardware through EVT/DVT-style builds, low-volume production, or contract-manufacturer-supported builds.
  • Familiarity with writing bring-up, test, or diagnostic firmware in C, C++, Rust, or Python.

Skills

Pcb DesignCircuit DesignBgaRigid-FlexFpcHigh-Speed InterfacesMipiGmslFpd-LinkHardware Bring-UpEmbedded SystemsRobotics Hardware
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