Power Electronics Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Palo Alto, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops Physical AI and industrial robots for real-world factory-floor deployment.

What you will do

• Own the robot's end-to-end power architecture across compute, actuation, sensing, peripherals, and motor inverters.
• Set power budgets, interfaces, priorities, specifications, and delivery dates while balancing power density, thermal performance, cost, and reliability.
• Make architecture and technology decisions covering topology, Si, GaN, SiC, make-versus-buy, and supplier strategy.
• Define power design standards for derating, layout, EMI, protection, and validation; lead design reviews and mentor engineers.
• Design and validate distribution networks, inverter stages, DC-DC converters, current sensing, protection circuits, connectors, and telemetry interfaces.
• Coordinate fabricators and suppliers on delivery, design for manufacturing, and second sourcing.

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience owning a product's power architecture, with other teams building against its specifications.
• Deep expertise in power distribution or inverter power stages, with architecture decisions spanning both areas.
• Strong DC-DC design skills, including topology, magnetics, loop compensation, current sensing, and protection circuits.
• Experience with high-current layout, EMI/EMC, bring-up, measurement, double-pulse testing, and gate-drive characterization.
• Experience with harnesses, connectors, volume manufacturing, contract manufacturers, and cross-team design standards.

Nice to have

• Experience with EtherCAT and GaN/SiC technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering in the physical world and on the factory floor.
• High ownership across the complete robot program.
• Close collaboration with compute, actuation, controls, systems, and hardware teams.