Mind Robotics
Electrical Design Engineer, Power Electronics
Palo Alto · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Education
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
About the job
Owns the robot’s end-to-end power architecture, from power distribution and DC-DC conversion to motor inverters, and delivers designs through bring-up and validation.
What you'll do
- Set power architecture, priorities, specifications, and program dates; make topology, device, and supplier decisions.
- Establish power design standards and lead cross-team reviews, mentoring engineers.
- Design, bring up, validate, and fault-inject power hardware; manage power interfaces, suppliers, and manufacturing readiness.
What they ask for
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience owning a product’s power architecture used by other teams, with expertise in power distribution or inverter stages and decisions spanning both.
- Strong DC-DC design skills, including topology, magnetics, loop compensation, current sensing, and protection.
- Strong high-current layout, EMI/EMC, bring-up, and measurement skills, including double-pulse testing and gate-drive characterization; experience with harnesses, connectors, volume manufacturing, and contract manufacturers.
Nice to have
- EtherCAT experience.
- GaN/SiC experience.
Tools
Si/GaN/SiC, DC-DC, EtherCAT, PMBus, I2C, SPI
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