Rhoda AI
Staff Electrical Engineer System Integration
Mountain View · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringComputer VisionSupply ChainLogisticsThermal AnalysisPCB DesignAltiumEmbedded SystemsEMI/EMCRoboticsElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignPower ElectronicsSensors5G/LTEResearchCommunicationHMIActuators
About the role
- We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.
Responsibilities
- Gate driver and H-bridge / three-phase inverter design for brushed DC, BLDC, and stepper motors used in robot joints, grippers, and drive systems
- Hardware design for incremental/absolute encoders (quadrature, SSI, BiSS-C, EnDat) for robot joint position and velocity feedback
- Field-deployed systems designed to meet industrial environmental ratings (IP65+, EMC/EMI, shock and vibration).
- Own schematic capture and collaborate closely on PCB layout using Altium Designer, ensuring signal integrity, DFM, and EMC best practices for robotic hardware.
- Design and integrate serial communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, I2S, I3C, EtherCAT) across embedded controllers, sensors, and actuators in the robot architecture.
Requirements
- 12+ years for Principal level.
- Experience designing electronics for robotics, industrial automation, or similarly demanding real-time embedded systems.
- Deep expertise in serial interface protocols:
- Proven experience designing audio hardware:
- Experience with display subsystems - LCD/TFT/OLED panel interfaces (MIPI DSI, parallel RGB, LVDS) and backlight circuitry (RGB LEDs, fiber-optic distribution) for robot status and HMI panels.
- Proficiency in Altium Designer - schematic capture, multi-board design, library management, and understanding of PCB layout constraints (impedance control, differential pairs, power planes).
- Experience designing with serializers and deserializers (SerDes) - e.g., GMSL, FPD-Link, or similar high-speed video/data transport ICs for multi-camera robot perception systems.
- Proficiency with lab instruments: oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer.
- Experience with rotating or solid-state LiDAR modules (Velodyne, Ouster, Luminar, Hesai, or similar) for robot navigation and environment mapping
Nice to have
- The following are considered strong differentiators and are highly desirable for candidates joining our robotics hardware team:
- NVIDIA GPU / Jetson Platform:
- Experience designing carrier boards or peripheral hardware for NVIDIA Jetson (Orin, Xavier, Nano) - the primary compute platform in our robot perception and AI inference stack
- Familiarity with PCIe, MIPI CSI-2, and high-speed I/O on NVIDIA SoMs
- Texas Instruments Microcontrollers / DSPs:
- Design experience with TI Sitara, C2000, MSP430, or TMS320 families for real-time robot control tasks
- Motor Control Hardware:
- Current sensing, protection circuitry, and thermal management for motor driver stages in continuous-duty robotic applications
Benefits
- Vision-guided robotic systems using cameras, LiDAR, and ToF sensors for real-time perception, navigation, and quality control.
- Image sensor integration (MIPI CSI-2, parallel, SLVS-EC) for robot vision and inspection systems
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