Senior Electrical Engineer
Skild AI · San Mateo
CHECKED 4H AGO
Roboticsonsitesenior$180k–$240k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own electrical system integration across Skild AI's robotics platforms.
- Build general-purpose robotic intelligence that adapts to unseen scenarios.
- Drive electronics from concept through production with hands-on validation.
Ideal candidate
Hands-on systems thinker who thrives amid ambiguity and owns hardware from concept to production. Passionate about robots, pragmatic about tradeoffs, and eager to collaborate across disciplines.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related field plus relevant work experience
- Hands-on experience taking electrical hardware from concept through validation and production
- Hands-on experience with EMC/EMI design, debugging, and test on complex hardware
- Strong knowledge of grounding, shielding, filtering, signal integrity, and power integrity
- Proficiency in power electronics design, motor drives, switching power, high-current DC systems, battery management, and analog circuit design
- Strong understanding of sensor integration including IMUs, encoders, hall sensors, and cameras
- Experience with RF systems, antenna integration, coexistence, and impedance control
- Strong PCB design and layout skills with system-level approach to EMC
- Familiarity with communication protocols such as GMSL, CAN, Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C, and RS-485
- Comfortable debugging in the lab, modifying hardware, and building quick test fixtures
- Strong judgment making decisions with incomplete or changing requirements
- Able to communicate tradeoffs clearly and drive decisions across multiple disciplines
Lab profile
About Skild AI
Building general-purpose robotic intelligence that adapts robustly to unseen scenarios.
What they build
- General-purpose robotic intelligence
- Scalable foundation model for robot deployment
Known for
- Large-scale data-driven machine learning
- Robust adaptation to unseen scenarios
- Computer vision and manipulation
- Simulation and embedded systems