Electronics Engineer

Ulysses • San Francisco, CA

2d

About The Position

We’re hiring an Electrical Engineer to join our already exceptional EE team to play a critical part in designing, prototyping, and bringing to production the embedded electronics that power our autonomous surface and subsea robots. You’ll own boards and subsystems end-to-end—from first schematics to field-tested hardware to production releases—working closely with mechanical, robotics, and software teams to ship complete, reliable systems. This role is for someone who moves fast, builds real hardware, and has strong fundamentals in embedded systems, power, sensing, and ruggedization. You’ll be expected to deliver boards that are manufacturable, testable, serviceable, and robust in harsh marine environments.

Requirements

• Hands-on hardware experience, with the ability to show examples of built hardware.
• Experience shipping embedded electronics in real environments, outside of labs and homes.
• Proven ability to bring embedded systems from concept to prototype to production, including schematic capture, layout collaboration/ownership, bring-up, and iteration.
• Strong understanding of analogue electronics - amplifiers, opamp circuits, power converters.
• Proficiency in high-speed PCB design and related testing - signal integrity design requirements.
• Circuit analysis: proficient with simulation of circuits in SPICE and python.
• PCB rework: experience soldering small electronics (0402 size or smaller).
• Strong embedded fundamentals: microcontrollers (e.g., STM32, Teensy, ESP, or similar), C/C++, debugging with scopes/logic analyzers, and hardware/software interface discipline.
• ECAD proficiency (KiCad, Altium or similar) and ability to produce clean, reviewable designs quickly.
• Comfortable integrating mixed-protocol systems (UART/CAN/USB/Ethernet) and handling real-world issues (grounding, noise, EMI, timing, brownouts, ESD).
• Strong debugging instincts: ability to isolate failures systematically and get to the root cause fast (hardware, firmware, system-level interactions).
• Ability to collaborate across mechanical and software: connector selection, harnessing, packaging, sealing constraints, manufacturing/assembly realities.
• Track record of strong problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to work independently in dynamic environments.

Nice To Haves

• Marine/fielded robotics electronics experience (corrosion, condensation, vibration/shock, pressure-adjacent constraints, waterproof connectors, sealing strategies).
• Power systems experience: higher-current distribution, battery packs, BMS integration, chargers, motor power, and safety/protection design.
• Experience with production test automation and fixture design (bed-of-nails, boundary scan strategies, calibration flows, logging/traceability).
• Experience with ultrasonics / acoustics hardware, analog front-ends, or DSP-adjacent systems.
• Experience with EMC/EMI pre-compliance testing and design mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design embedded systems for robotic platforms, including sensing, compute, comms, and power distribution.
• Take designs from breadboards to polished PCBs ready for vehicle integration.
• Collaborate with the mechanical and mechatronics teams to ensure smooth integration of electronics with mechanical systems.
• Write/modify embedded firmware for board bring-up, sensor integration, control loops, diagnostics, and fault handling; collaborate closely with software to define interfaces and telemetry.
• Design and validate power trees (DC/DC, protection, inrush, switching noise management), battery integration, charging paths, and power monitoring.
• Integrate sensors, comms modules, and actuators across protocols (UART/CAN/USB/Ethernet), and make them behave reliably together in the real world.
• Create test plans, run environmental and stress testing, debug intermittent failures, and drive reliability improvements based on field data.
• Design for scale: DFM/DFT, component selection, cost-down revisions, supplier coordination, and building production test fixtures and automated end-of-line tests.
• Maintain schematics, layouts, BOMs, test procedures, calibration/bring-up guides, and clear handoffs to manufacturing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed