Senior Electrical Engineer - Spot

About the position

As a Senior Electrical Engineer on the Spot electrical team focused on high-speed circuit design, you will develop electronics for Boston Dynamics' quadruped mobile robots. You will be responsible for developing circuit boards with serialized data links through all phases of PCBA development from concept through to volume production. You'll love working on a fun, collaborative, and talented team to support one of the world's coolest robots. Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.

Responsibilities

• Develop (document, design, simulate, test, support) digital, power, and/or mixed signal circuit boards
• Own robot subsystems through architecture, development, and volume manufacturing
• Oversee and/or layout circuit boards in CAD
• Simulate, design and validate high-speed digital interfaces at the board level to ensure proper signal integrity
• Mentor other team members and act as the go-to resource for high-speed digital interface design questions & problems
• Triage, troubleshoot, and diagnose robot electrical failures to root cause
• Author technical documentation such as specifications, schematics, test plans, and reports
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, manufacturing, compliance, and test teams
• Write Engineering Change Orders (ECOs)
• Participate in design reviews

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, robotics, or closely-related field
• 7+ years of directly related work experience
• Strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals
• Deep knowledge of PCBAs designs with high-speed digital interfaces (e.g. MIPI, GMSL, PCIe, 10Gbase-T, 1000base-T1, USB3)
• Embedded computing and/or robotics systems knowledge
• Product design experience
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout software (e.g. Altium)
• Familiarity with using a PLM (e.g. Arena)
• Familiarity with Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Simulation tools (e.g. Ansys EM Suite)

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to code in C/C++, Python, and/or LabVIEW
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Expertise in Signal Integrity/Power Integrity Simulation tools (e.g. Ansys EM Suite)
• Familiarity with the concepts of functional safety (e.g. IEC61508, ISO13849, IEC61511, and/or ISO26262)
• Knowledge of circuit board manufacturing DfX and best practices