Generalist
Hardware Engineer: Electrical Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
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About the role
- Robots that learn from the world need hardware that can see, sense, and act within it.
- You'll be responsible for custom hardware behind the cameras, sensors, and motor control that power our robots and the foundation models behind them.
- and with software engineers on drivers, interfaces, and system performance.
Responsibilities
- Have experience managing external suppliers, design partners, CM / JDMs, including schedule planning, materials sourcing, and production ramp
- As a Hardware Engineer at Generalist, you will own electrical systems from end-to-end: from napkin sketch of concepts to schematic, layout, bring-up, and production.
- You will collaborate daily with mechanical engineers on packaging, thermals, and integration
- Partnering closely with mechanical engineers on enclosure integration, thermal design, connector selection and placement, cabling
- You will collaborate daily with mechanical engineers on packaging, thermals, and integration; and with software engineers on drivers, interfaces, and system performance.
- Driving designs to production: DFM and DFT, EMC and regulatory certification (FCC, CE), test fixture development, and manufacturing ramp with in-house resources, external design partners, or contract manufacturers
- Robots can help us build more and get more done.
- We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity.
Requirements
- Have experience with highly integrated SoC based designs (e.g. Qualcomm, NXP i.MX http://i.MX, Ambarella, etc) including high speed interfaces (e.g. MIPI CSI/DSI, USB 3.x, PCIe)
Company info
- At Generalist, we are on a mission to make general-purpose robots a reality.
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