Electrical Engineering Lead (Robotics)

Location: Palo Alto, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with factory-floor robotics.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and scale the electrical engineering team across power electronics, sensing, and electrical design.
• Own the robot’s end-to-end electrical architecture, including power, actuation, sensing, compute integration, harnessing, and the electrical budget.
• Set design standards, review schematics and PCB layouts, and make trade-offs across signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermals, and cost.
• Partner with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specifications and integrate high-speed sensor stacks.
• Lead electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging across board boundaries.
• Drive DFM/DFA, manufacturing collaboration, second-source components, and production ramp readiness.

Requirements

• Technical degree in electrical engineering or equivalent, with 8+ years of full-cycle board development from schematic through production for complex robotic, automotive, or electromechanical systems.
• Hands-on experience actively designing, laying out, and debugging hardware.
• Deep experience with EtherCAT, including topology, distributed-clock synchronization, and PDO mapping.
• Mastery of power electronics and motor drives or sensor/mixed-signal front-ends, with broad fluency across both domains.
• Strong knowledge of high-current power architectures, rail partitioning, circuit protection, EMI/EMC, grounding, ESD mitigation, and high-speed serial protocols including SPI, I2C, UART, and PMBus.
• Experience mentoring engineers, managing risk, and delivering multi-board hardware projects through volume manufacturing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering culture focused on ownership and difficult physical-world problems.
• Work directly with robotic hardware in the lab and on the factory floor.
• Collaborate across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and perception engineering disciplines.