Electrical Engineer, Robotics

TAR•San Francisco, CA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Electrical Engineer in the TAR robotics program, you will own the electronics end-to-end, from schematic capture through layout, bring-up, and validation, to the debug session that happens in the dirt at a live site. This is a mid to senior level individual contributor role based at our San Francisco robotics facility, with regular field time at our GW-scale campus in West Texas.

Requirements

4+ years of electrical engineering experience on robotic, vehicle, or electromechanical systems
End-to-end PCB design experience on hardware you then brought up and debugged under load.
Power electronics depth across battery packs and BMS, DC-DC conversion, power distribution, and charging.
Track record shipping hardware with vendors and contract manufacturers.
High ownership, bias for speed, and comfort with ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

High-voltage battery systems and traction-class power electronics.
Functional safety for mobile machinery (ISO 13849, ISO 25119, or similar).
Ruggedization and ingress protection for outdoor or off-highway equipment.
Firmware fluency: embedded C/C++, RTOS, and CAN.
Experience with off-highway, construction, or agricultural vehicle electrical systems.

Responsibilities

Own the electrical architecture of TAR’s deployment machines, including high- and low-voltage distribution, battery and charging systems, and the power budget for robots that work a full shift off-grid.
Design boards end-to-end for motor control, sensing, power, and compute: schematic capture, layout, bring-up, and validation.
Specify and integrate motor drives and actuation electronics, working with mechanical and controls engineers on current sensing, loop tuning, and protection.
Integrate the sensors and compute that enable core autonomy functions: navigation, perception, controls, and comms.
Design harnesses, connectors, and enclosures that survive dust, heat, vibration, and rough handling on an active jobsite.
Own EMI/EMC, grounding, thermal, and electrical safety, including E-stops, interlocks, overcurrent protection, and fault handling on machines that move heavy loads around people.
Bring up new hardware on the bench and in the field, and debug it under real load.
Own the build package and manufacturer handoff: sourceable BOMs, testable boards, and harnesses built for repeatable production.