Staff Electrical Engineer - Compute (Robotics)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Annual salary: $210,000–$235,000

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered humanoid robots, including Apollo, for manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, home, and other applications.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and implementation of next-generation compute solutions for a humanoid robot platform.
• Define and validate compute requirements for motion control, perception, and AI workloads.
• Design scalable, high-bandwidth compute systems with redundant, fail-safe, and diagnostic features for functional safety.
• Design, simulate, implement, and test multilayer high-speed PCBs integrating System-on-Modules such as NVIDIA Orin.
• Lead signal integrity, power integrity, power sequencing, performance benchmarking, thermal management, and power analysis.
• Own hardware development from concept and prototyping through validation, production release, and ongoing support while mentoring electrical engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in embedded systems or robotics compute design.
• Proven experience architecting and shipping high-performance compute solutions for robotics, autonomous systems, or similar applications.
• Deep knowledge of functional safety principles, including IEC 61508, and safety-critical design.
• Expertise with embedded compute platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson and Intel, plus RTOS, multicore processing, Ethernet, and CAN.
• Experience with sensor bandwidth management, high-speed data transfer, SoMs, memory, storage, PMICs, and power trees.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree or Ph.D. is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with humanoid robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on applied AI and robotics across the full robotics stack.
• Collaborate with software, electrical, and systems engineering teams.
• Direct-hire employment opportunity.
• Equal employment opportunity and a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.