# Electrical Engineer, Robotics

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $295k – $380k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Pcb Design, Circuit Design, Bga, Rigid-Flex, Fpc, High-Speed Interfaces, Mipi, Gmsl, Fpd-Link, Hardware Bring-Up, Embedded Systems, Robotics Hardware
**Posted:** 2026-05-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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