Electrical Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Tokyo, Japan; hybrid workplace

Company

Develops advanced robotic platforms, including articulated and humanoid robots, supported by an in-house data foundry for collecting real-world manipulation data.

What you will do

• Design electrical systems, electronics, schematics, PCB layouts, wire harnesses, and system architectures for robotic products.
• Integrate power distribution, motor drives, sensors, communication interfaces, control circuits, and other electronic components.
• Support system bring-up, debugging, validation, performance testing, and root-cause investigations.
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware, controls, software, manufacturing, suppliers, and production partners.
• Improve reliability, manufacturability, safety, cost efficiency, and product quality.
• Support prototype builds, production scaling, and resolution of manufacturing or field issues.

Requirements

• Background in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field.
• Experience developing electronic hardware for commercial products or complex systems.
• Proficiency with PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, KiCad, OrCAD, or Cadence.
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit design fundamentals.
• Experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, power analyzers, soldering tools, and breadboards.
• Professional proficiency in English and Japanese is required. Experience with CAN, EtherCAT, RS422, RS485, I2C, or similar interfaces is also expected.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, automation, power electronics, motor control, battery systems, or embedded hardware.
• Embedded system programming, especially with STM32, sensor integration, signal conditioning, or high-speed digital design.
• Experience with safety-critical systems, humanoid robots, mobile robots, AMRs, AGVs, or warehouse and retail robotics.
• Experience taking products from prototype through mass production.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on cutting-edge robotic systems and next-generation humanoid platforms.
• Collaborate with engineers across hardware, software, controls, firmware, manufacturing, and mechanics.
• Contribute to the transition from prototypes to large-scale real-world deployment.
• Responsibilities and scope are aligned with experience, technical expertise, and career goals.