Manager, Electrical Engineering
Mind RoboticsRobotics company
Palo Alto, United StatesManager
Accel
Andreessen Horowitz
Eclipse
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the electrical engineering team for advanced robotic systems.
- •We are looking for our Electrical Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end electrical architecture for our advanced robotic systems.
- •This is a hands-on, deeply technical leadership role for an engineer who leads from the bench, personally driving schematic design, PCB layout, and low-level fault isolation, rather than managing from a distance.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead, mentor, and scale the EE team (power electronics, sensing, and electrical design) while raising the technical bar through hiring and onboarding.
- •Own the robot’s end-to-end electrical architecture (power, actuation, sensing, compute integration, and harnessing) and overall electrical budget.
- •Set EE design standards, review schematics/layouts, and arbitrate trade-offs across signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermals, and cost.
- •Partner with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs and integrate high-speed sensor stacks.
- •Lead system-level electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging across board boundaries from the lab bench.
- •Requirements Technical degree in EE (or equivalent) with 8+ years of full-cycle board development (schematic to production) for complex robotic, automotive, or electromechanical systems.
- •A first-principles engineer who actively designs, lays out, and debugs hardware rather than managing purely from a distance.
- •Deep, hands-on experience with EtherCAT (topology, distributed-clock sync, PDO mapping) for distributed actuation and sensing.
- •Mastery of at least one core domain—power electronics/motor drives or sensor/mixed-signal front-ends—with broad fluency across both.
- •Strong grasp of high-current power architectures, rail partitioning, budgeting, and circuit protection (OVP/UVP/OCP/OTP).
Required skills
Engineering ManagementTechnical Leadership