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Nimble Robotics
Senior Electrical Engineer (Power Electronics)
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AIComplianceRegulatory Compliance
20 days ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$180,000 – $230,000 / year
Location:
San Francisco, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
2 October 2026
What they need
- As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will design motor controller boards and power distribution boards for our robotic platforms
- You will own the work from architecture and component selection through validation and production
- You will work with mechanical, firmware, controls, and software engineers to build hardware that performs under real operating conditions
- Design motor controller boards, power distribution boards, and other high-power electronics for robotic platforms
- Own power-stage architecture, schematic capture, component selection, and PCB layout reviews for MOSFETs, gate drivers, current sensing, protection circuits, and thermal management
- Define grounding, power sequencing, fault handling, and interfaces among batteries, motors, sensors, and compute systems
- Develop drive electronics and interfaces to commutation with control firmware
- Work with firmware, controls, mechanical, and software engineers to integrate and test each system
- Write and run validation plans for efficiency, thermal performance, transient response, fault conditions, EMC/EMI, and environmental limits
- Diagnose power integrity, motor control, thermal, and reliability failures in the lab and on deployed robots
- Take designs through DFM, certification, production testing, and manufacturing ramp
- Drive team’s electrical design best practices- Lab experience with oscilloscopes, current probes, electronic loads, power analyzers, and thermal cameras
- Experience with thermal analysis, power integrity, grounding, creepage and clearance, and high-current PCB layout
- A record of shipping hardware products to production
- Proficiency with Altium, OrCAD, KiCad, or a comparable PCB design tool
- Experience designing motor controller boards, power distribution boards, DC/DC converters, inverters, or related power systems
- Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Knowledge of EMC/EMI design, functional safety, and regulatory compliance
- Ability to run circuit, power electronics, and thermal simulations to validate designs before hardware testing
- Knowledge of power semiconductors, gate drives, current and voltage sensing, magnetics, protection circuits, and control loops
- 4+ years designing power electronics, motor drives, or high-current embedded hardware
- Familiarity with embedded systems and protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, and UART
- Power electronics experience in electric vehicles, mobile robots, industrial robotics, or autonomous systems
- Experience with three-phase BLDC/PMSM motor drives, field-oriented control, regenerative braking, and motor characterization
- Experience with batteries, battery management systems, pre-charge circuits, contactors, fusing, and high-current or high-voltage distribution
- Knowledge of embedded firmware, motor-control algorithms, and low-level software interfaces
- Experience developing high-reliability or safety-critical systems
- Familiarity with DFM, DFA, production testing, and manufacturing processes
- A record of learning new design methods and applying AI tools to component research, circuit analysis, design reviews, documentation, or debugging
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