On-site Senior Staff Electrical Engineer leading the mechanical and electrical hardware of the Bolt base through safety certification. The role owns the power system, including battery pack, BMS, and charger integration with a battery manufacturer, plus high-current distribution. Tools include Altium Designer, LTspice, and Python, and the engineer leads a team of mechanical and electrical engineers.
At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.
We're building Bolt, a mobile manipulation platform: an autonomous mobile base carrying our robot arms. We're looking for a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer to lead the hardware of that base, mechanical and electrical, from concept through a safety-certified fleet. You will set the hardware architecture, lead a team of mechanical and electrical engineers through prototype builds, test, and certification, and own the power system yourself: specifying and integrating the battery pack and charger from a battery manufacturer, and designing the high-current distribution, pre-charge and protection, safe power cutoff, and power delivery to drive motors, arms, and compute.
This is an on-site role based at our new Boston-area office, where Bolt is designed, built, and tested, with some flexibility on days in the office once you're up to speed. On-site you'll build up a fully equipped electronics lab, a build area, a test floor, and the team steps from your desk.
You've led the hardware of an AMR or comparable mobile robot from a blank page through safety certification and production, and you've designed and shipped its battery-powered systems yourself. You know the failure modes: inrush, regen on a full pack, ground loops, connector and busbar heating, a BMS that trips when you least expect it, and the safety function that fails validation a month before the audit. You can write a pack specification a vendor can build to and verify what they deliver. You lead by doing design work alongside the team. Our ideal candidate expects to spend roughly half their time on design/build/troubleshoot and half on team leadership, test, and certification.
The base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $220,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
Compensation: $160K - $220K