Senior Electrical Engineer, Power Electronics (Robotics)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Salary: $180,000–$230,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is an AI robotics company developing autonomous supply-chain systems and generalist robots for warehouses, factories, and fulfillment operations.

What you will do

• 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, sensing, protection, and thermal management.
• Define grounding, power sequencing, fault handling, and interfaces between batteries, motors, sensors, and compute systems.
• Develop drive electronics and integrate them with firmware, controls, mechanical, and software systems.
• Plan and execute validation for efficiency, thermal performance, transient response, fault conditions, EMC/EMI, and environmental limits.
• Take designs through DFM, certification, production testing, manufacturing ramp, and continuous electrical-design improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience designing power electronics, motor drives, or high-current embedded hardware.
• Experience with motor controller boards, power distribution boards, DC/DC converters, inverters, or related power systems.
• Knowledge of power semiconductors, gate drives, current and voltage sensing, magnetics, protection circuits, control loops, thermal analysis, grounding, creepage and clearance, and high-current PCB layout.
• Proficiency with Altium, OrCAD, KiCad, or comparable PCB design tools, plus circuit, power electronics, and thermal simulation.
• Experience with embedded protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, and UART; laboratory equipment; hardware production; EMC/EMI, functional safety, and regulatory compliance.

Nice to have

• Power electronics experience in electric vehicles, mobile robots, industrial robotics, or autonomous systems.
• Experience with three-phase BLDC/PMSM drives, field-oriented control, regenerative braking, motor characterization, batteries, BMS, pre-charge circuits, contactors, and high-current or high-voltage distribution.
• Experience with safety-critical systems, manufacturing processes, production testing, and applying AI tools to engineering work.

Culture & Benefits

• High-intensity, ambitious, humble, and resourceful engineering culture.
• Unlimited flexible time off.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid parental leave, commuter benefits, and a referral bonus.
• 401(k) contributions and equity participation.