Machina Labs
Senior Electrical Engineer
$165K–$190K
Chatsworth, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; electrical design ownership across multiple machines or a platform.
- Education
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person as defined under ITAR due to access to export-controlled information.
About the job
Leads hands-on electrical design and technical standards for robotic manufacturing platforms, from architecture and supplier builds through production readiness and compliance.
What you'll do
- Own electrical architecture, design documentation, interfaces, and analysis across production cells and future platforms.
- Lead supplier relationships, production build standards, troubleshooting, and machinery compliance and safety work.
- Set electrical design standards, lead cross-functional reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 7+ years in electrical engineering for industrial machinery, robotics, CNC, or automation equipment, including end-to-end design ownership across multiple machines or a platform.
- Experience setting electrical standards, leading design reviews, developing engineers, and designing electronic systems or instrumentation, including PCBA schematics, bring-up, test, and validation.
- Experience with 480VAC distribution and 24VDC controls, industrial networks, EMI/EMC mitigation, electrical CAD, contract electrical builds, and change-controlled documentation; must be a U.S. person under ITAR and able to work onsite in Chatsworth, CA.
Nice to have
- Experience taking industrial machinery through compliance; robotic-cell safety circuit design and relevant safety standards.
- Experience scaling production, customer or certification-body engagement, servo commissioning, facility integration, DAQ, PCBA layout, or industrial robot integration.
Pay
USD 165,000–190,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
480VAC, 24VDC, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, EPLAN, SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD Electrical
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