Electrical Engineering Manager

About the position

As an Electrical Engineering Manager on the Atlas team, you will guide an electrical engineering team in the design, build and troubleshooting of compact electrical systems in robots. Your team will own all aspects of electrical system design from initial architecture, through implementation, and into production. You will provide technical leadership, personnel management, and make meaningful technical contributions.

Responsibilities

• Manage resources to meet schedules and goals of objective based assignments
• Guide, mentor, and develop your team members
• Provide technical leadership in planning, architecting, and executing electrical system designs
• Collaborate with other managers and engineers on hard design problems, work across disciplines to understand failure modes and design tests to validate design performance
• Work with manufacturing, suppliers, technicians, contract manufacturers, and logistics to guarantee that the right electrical systems are assembled and functional in the right place at the right time
• Drive best practices in design, analysis, simulation, testing, and documentation
• Troubleshoot issues, root cause failure analysis, design and implement corrective and preventative solutions

Requirements

• Experience managing an engineering team in a product development environment
• Experience designing embedded computing systems with high speed communication
• Experience with image sensors and camera systems
• Experience with wireless devices, antennas, or other RF applications
• Experience with power electronics and battery powered systems
• Working understanding of EMC/EMI testing and troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of Linux, bootloaders, and peripheral drivers
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using schematic capture and PCB layout software

Nice-to-haves

• Firmware development in C
• Experience with volume manufacturing
• Experience with Python, LabView, or MATLAB
• A working knowledge of failure avoidance methods like DFMEA/PFMEA and structured problem solving methods like 8D