Senior Electrical Engineer

About The Role

This role will influence the design of the next generation of Digit, aimed at meeting customer needs at a commercial scale. The Senior Engineer will help drive the robot design and will develop robust and reliable electronics for this and future robot generations. Collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers is essential to understand product requirements and ensure designs are robust, safe, and production-ready.

About The Work

The Senior Electrical Engineer\'s responsibilities include:

• Implementing Printed Circuit Board schematics and implementing and/or overseeing PCB layout to create PCB engineering deliverables for release.
• Estimating duration of work efforts to contribute to project schedules
• Identifying, selecting, and qualifying components; generating new parts & symbols.
• Creating engineering verification checklists, executing verification, and documenting results.
• Executing design and release checklists and presenting your design at cross-functional design reviews.
• Executing rapid prototyping and bring-up of electrical systems at the board level.
• Implementing design for emissions, test, manufacturing, and assembly test.
• Participating in debugging efforts and root cause analysis for hardware and software defects within Engineering, Systems, and Operations
• Managing _________ ambiguity - (capable of  filling in the blanks)

About You

Candidates should possess the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
• 7 or more years of electrical design experience
• Deep experience with Altium for component generation and schematic entry
• Experience managing inside and outside PCB layout designers, including written layout briefs.
• Experience in embedded controls, high-speed differential signaling, microcontrollers, memory buses, digital design, and power electronics (switching power supplies)
• 3D visualization capabilities to imagine and optimize space constrained circuitry in challenging mechanical and thermal environments

Candidates should thrive in a highly dynamic environment with rapidly evolving requirements, tight schedules, and enjoy building collaborative relationships on a daily basis.

Bonus Points

Candidates with more of the following will be more highly regarded:

• An advanced degree with robotics experience
• Technical knowledge and hands-on experience with one or more of:
  • High-capacity Li batteries and BMS implementations
  • DC-DC conversion (switching power supplies, standard and LDO linear regulators)
  • Sensor fusion (Lidar, radar, cameras, etc.)
  • RF SOM and antenna design
  • Flex circuit design
  • Cable harness design (esp. Altium Harness experience)
  • Analog design, especially sensing and instrumentation (sensors, op-amps & A/Ds)
  • Motors and motor control, particularly BLDC motors
• Multidisciplinary debugging techniques operable in the engineering lab or factory floor
• Adjacent engineering disciplines (PCB layout, firmware, mechanical, test)
• Project management experience (especially using Jira)
• Altium super-user for schematics or layout
• A strong understanding of structured product development (including requirements-driven engineering, comprehensive documentation, and rigorous verification)

Location

• This a hybrid position based out of our Fremont office. Candidates should anticipate regular travel to Salem, Oregon, averaging one week per month over a year, with bursts of extended stays in Salem during critical project phases.