Boston Dynamics is looking to solve the problem of designing, building, and troubleshooting compact electrical systems in robot products, specifically in actuators including motor control, by hiring an Electrical Engineering Manager for Actuation on the Atlas team
Requirements
- Experience using schematic capture and PCB layout software
- Experience designing brushless motor drivers and/or high power switching converters
- Experience designing space-constrained electronics that are highly integrated with mechanical components
- Experience with volume manufacturing
- Experience with sensors and analog design such as encoders, IMUs, and current sensing
- Working understanding of Functional Safety, Compliance, and EMC/EMI testing and troubleshooting
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals and intuition for mechanical engineering constraints
Responsibilities
- Manage resources to meet schedules and goals of objective based assignments
- Guide, mentor, and develop your team members
- Provide technical leadership in planning, architecting, and executing electrical system designs
- Collaborate with other managers and engineers on hard design problems, work across disciplines to understand failure modes and design tests to validate design performance
- Work with manufacturing, suppliers, technicians, contract manufacturers, and logistics to guarantee that the right electrical systems are assembled and functional in the right place at the right time
- Drive best practices in design, analysis, simulation, testing, and documentation
- Troubleshoot issues, root cause failure analysis, design and implement corrective and preventative solutions
Other
- Experience managing an engineering team in a product development environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in a relevant field (not explicitly mentioned but implied)
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Ability to travel (not explicitly mentioned but may be required)
