Electrical Engineering Manager (Onsite)

Standard Bots•Glen Cove, NY

2d•$180,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Standard Bots is seeking an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for electronics at the heart of its robots, including motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, battery management, and sensing boards. The manager is accountable for the team's technical output, quality, schedule, and the manufacturability of boards through release. The role reports to the Head of Hardware and partners with Mechanical, Software, Functional Safety, Manufacturing, and Product teams to deliver simple, reliable hardware that can be manufactured at scale. This is an on-site position at Standard Bots' Glen Cove, New York factory, with access to an electronics lab, production robots, and the manufacturing floor. The manager will initially spend roughly 75% of their time on hands-on engineering, including schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, test planning, and root-cause debugging. As the team grows, individual design work is expected to decrease to 25% or less, while the manager remains closely involved in technical reviews and decisions. The position combines engineering leadership and hands-on electronics expertise. It includes developing the team and its engineering practices, guiding architecture and component decisions, coordinating electrical work across programs, collaborating on electrical-mechanical integration, and working with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors. Candidates need a bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, 15 or more years of PCBA design, build, and test experience, including production releases, and 7 or more years leading and managing electrical engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
15 or more years designing, building, and testing PCBAs, including designs taken through production release.
7 or more years leading and managing electrical engineers.
Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, including early-career engineers; setting priorities, giving direct feedback, and maintaining a high technical bar.
Ability to delegate effectively, give engineers meaningful ownership, and provide support where it changes the outcome.
Judgment about applying an appropriate level of process in a fast-moving hardware team.
Strong communication across teams and departments, including the ability to explain electrical trade-offs, share plans and risks early, and build trust.
Collaborative approach with Mechanical Engineering and other functions, including Production, Operations, Procurement, Quality, and Customer Support.
Ability to plan and deliver team work to schedules, identify problems during review, and take responsibility for shipped output.
Mastery of power electronics, including motor drivers and inverter stages, switch-mode supplies, power sequencing, and protection.
Mastery of digital electronics, including MCUs, FPGAs, Ethernet, USB, SPI/I2C/UART, and signal-integrity fundamentals.
Mastery of analog electronics, including op-amps, filters, ADC/DAC signal chains, and precision sensing.
Proficiency in Altium Designer or similar EDA tools for schematic capture and multi-layer layout, including constraint-driven routing for high-speed and high-current designs.
Strong hardware debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic or protocol analyzers, and bench instruments; ability to document findings and teach debugging practices.
Strong written and verbal communication, including design documentation, trade studies, and design reviews.
Focus on user impact, execution, simplicity, reliability, manufacturability, and velocity.
Ability and interest in learning new domains and working effectively in dynamic, ambitious environments with diverse teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or scaling an electrical engineering team at a hardware startup, including establishing design standards, release processes, and lab infrastructure.
Experience leading engineers across multiple sites or programs at the same time.
High-speed design experience with PCIe Gen1–5, USB3/4, MIPI, GMSL, or 10G Ethernet, together with high-current power delivery for compute modules and knowledge of signal and power integrity, including impedance control, crosstalk, and PDN mitigation.
Camera electronics and image sensor integration experience, including MIPI, GMSL, sensor power, and clocking.
Experience with dense or space-constrained boards, including HDI, flex, or rigid-flex, and associated fabrication trade-offs.
Motor electromagnetic design and motor control experience, including FOC, current sensing, encoder interfaces, or control systems for robotic manipulation or locomotion.
Familiarity with embedded programming of DSPs, MCUs, and FPGAs, and with LTspice and Python for simulation, analysis, and test automation.
EMC/EMI design and regulatory compliance testing experience, including CE/UL, IEC 61000 series, and pre-compliance debugging.
Experience with real-time industrial fieldbuses such as EtherCAT, CAN/CANopen, or EtherNet/IP, and safety-rated electronics to ISO 13849 or IEC 61508.
Experience taking products from prototype through NPI to volume manufacturing, including DFM/DFT, test fixtures, and yield improvement.

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, and grow the electrical engineering team; set goals, conduct one-on-ones and performance reviews, and support engineers' development.
Delegate work according to engineers' strengths and growth goals, give clear ownership, and monitor progress without becoming a bottleneck.
Plan and prioritize electrical engineering work across programs, assign owners, track schedules, and ensure boards are reviewed, tested, and production-ready.
Scope and estimate electrical work with hardware leadership, identify technical and schedule risks early, and make trade-offs among scope, schedule, and resources.
Establish appropriately scaled engineering practices, including design reviews, component libraries, release processes, design checklists, and test standards.
Work with Mechanical Engineering as one hardware team on packaging, thermal, cabling, connectors, builds, and integration problems.
Represent Electrical Engineering in cross-functional decisions with Software, Functional Safety, Manufacturing, and Product, and drive decisions to closure.
Mentor early-career engineers and advise associate, mid-level, and senior engineers on technical and personal advancement.
Perform hands-on schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, test planning, and root-cause debugging on critical boards, particularly during the first few months.
Drive architecture and component decisions through conceptual design, requirements definition, and trade studies, and advise hardware leadership on technical strategy.
Own relationships with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors, incorporate DFM/DFA feedback into designs, and support production issues.