Electrical Engineer (Robotics)

$120,000 - $150,000/Yr

Axient - Pasadena, CA

Full-time

Onsite - Pasadena, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Axient is seeking Electrical Engineers (Robotics) to support the development, design, testing, and manufacturing of electronic Motion Control products and systems. These roles are collaborative and laboratory-based, primarily located in Altadena, CA, with additional opportunities in Boulder, CO, or Hyattsville, MD. The engineers will work on multi-disciplinary project teams to transition flight-ready products to manufacturing and test engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Support a multi-disciplinary project team collaborating on multi-board designs through development.
• Transition a flight-ready product to the manufacturing and test engineering teams.
• Conduct embedded system design, including schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Design digital, analog, and mixed signal systems.
• Implement board-level communication interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, and CAN.
• Design controlled impedance for high-speed channel designs including SpaceWire, 10GbE, and SerDes.
• Develop linear and switch mode DC/DC power conversion systems.
• Create documentation including test procedures, reports, interface control documents, and ECOs.
• Perform design analysis and simulation including WCA/WCCA, reliability, radiation, and Spice.
• Design cable and wire harness systems.
• Ensure signal and power integrity (SI/PI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from an accredited institution.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in embedded system design.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout, digital, analog, and mixed signal design.
• Familiarity with board-level communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, CAN).
• Experience in controlled impedance for high-speed channel design (SpaceWire, 10GbE, SerDes).
• Knowledge of linear and switch mode DC/DC power conversion.
• Ability to create documentation such as test procedures, reports, and interface control documents.
• Experience in design analysis and simulation (WCA/WCCA, reliability, radiation, Spice).
• Extensive experience in prototype development, debugging, and testing in a lab environment.
• Demonstrable experience designing and launching products in regulated environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing motion control and electromechanical systems for harsh space environments.
• Familiarity with EEE-INST-002 and radiation-hardness/mitigation.
• Experience with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Ability to generate technical proposal content and labor/cost estimation.
• Proficiency in Altium Designer.
• BS degree in a STEM field.
• Familiarity with DSP and microcontroller firmware development in C.
• Experience with FPGA design (Verilog and VHDL).
• Experience in system and functional requirements generation.