Electrical Design Engineer, Power Electronics

Mind Robotics • Palo Alto, CA

21h

About The Position

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting on the factory floor. The company is seeking people passionate about robotics, ownership, and solving difficult problems through hands-on work with the physical world.

The Power Electronics Engineer will own the robot’s power architecture end to end, from power distribution to compute, sensing, and actuation loads through the motor inverters that drive each joint. The role establishes power specifications and interfaces that compute, actuation, controls, and systems teams use to build their work. It makes architecture decisions on topology, device technology, and suppliers, and sets design standards for other hardware teams. The engineer remains hands-on through schematic design, bring-up, validation, and fault injection.

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience owning a product’s power architecture, rather than only individual boards, with other teams building against it.
• Deep expertise in either power distribution or inverter power stages, with architecture decisions spanning both.
• Strong DC-DC design skills, including topology, magnetics, and loop compensation, plus current sensing and protection circuits.
• Strong high-current layout, EMI/EMC, bring-up, and measurement skills, including double-pulse testing and gate-drive characterization.
• Experience with harnesses, connectors, volume manufacturing, and contract manufacturers.
• Experience setting design standards adopted beyond one’s own team.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with EtherCAT.
• Experience with GaN/SiC.

Responsibilities

• Own the robot’s power architecture, including distribution across compute, actuation, sensing, and peripherals, as well as motor inverters.
• Set rail budgets and interfaces used by compute, actuation, controls, and systems teams, while coordinating with their schedules.
• Set priorities and make tradeoffs against power density, thermal, cost, and reliability targets; explain tradeoffs to program leads.
• Make strategic decisions about topology, Si/GaN/SiC technologies, make-versus-buy, and supplier strategy; commit power specifications and dates to the program.
• Set power design standards for derating, layout, EMI, protection, and validation; lead cross-team design reviews and mentor engineers.
• Design and work hands-on with distribution networks, inverter stages with discrete gate drivers, DC-DC conversion, current sensing, and protection.
• Deliver high power density within thermal limits through PCB design, bring-up, validation, and fault injection.
• Own power-related firmware and telemetry interfaces, including EtherCAT, PMBus, I2C, and SPI, as well as connectors and pinouts.
• Manage fabricators and suppliers for delivery, design for manufacturability, and second sourcing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time