Senior Electrical Engineer

Symbotic

Waltham, MA Posted 2/7/2025 Full Time

Who we are

With its A.I.-powered robotic technology platform, Symbotic is changing the way consumer goods move through the supply chain. Intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system – reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.

What we need

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Functional Safety team within our Hardware Engineering organization. Your job will be to architect, design, and implement our custom high-performance computing platform for our safety critical industrial vision system. This means developing state-of-the art hardware with a rigorous approach to reliability and fault tolerance.

What we do

The Functional Safety team is integral in ensuring that Symbotic's efficient and cutting-edge warehouse automation solutions adhere to the highest standards of safety and compliance.

What you’ll do

  • Own the electrical engineering activities in all phases from specification and design to implementation and verification/validation testing.

  • Play a hands-on role as part of the engineering teams developing solutions.

  • Lead generation of detailed electrical schematics (we use OrCAD CIS), circuit design, defining routing constraints, layout review and PCB manufacturing guidance.

  • Responsible for managing technical activities for assigned projects and design integration with electro-mechanical and software systems.

  • Design of power distribution networks (LDO, VR) as well as post layout power integrity analysis

  • Experience in lab bring-up, certification lab system testing, and debugging system level issues in customer sites

  • Develop a deep understanding of IEC 61508 functional safety requirements as they relate to hardware deployment.

  • Play a role in coaching and providing guidance for other electrical engineers on the team.

  • Travel to customer sites to support new installations. Travel up to 20%.

What you’ll need

  • Bachelors or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related degree.

  • At least 8years of relevant experience in the field of electrical design.

  • Experienced with industrial PC design, embedded system design or graphic card design and comfortable designing with modern CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs

  • Familiar with high speed SERDES based I/Fs (e.g. PCIe) and SDRAM I/Fs (e.g. DDR3)

  • A first-principles thinker who can invent novel solutions to challenging technical problems

  • You have experience with high-speed, high-power, embedded system design

  • You have proficiency with all standard hardware lab equipment including scopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, dynamic loads, protocol analyzers

  • Travel to customer sites to support new installations. Travel up to 20%.

Bonus Points

  • Experience with regulated environments such as medical devices/ISO 13485 or functional safety/IEC 61508/ISO 13849, DO-178C/DO-254 or IEC 26262

  • Knowledge of local and national standards is a plus (UL, EN, IEC).

Our Environment

  • Up to 20% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.

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About Symbotic

Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. Symbotic reinvents the warehouse as a strategic asset for the world’s largest retail, wholesale, and food & beverage companies. Applying next-gen technology, high-density storage and machine learning to solve today's complex distribution challenges, Symbotic enables companies to move goods with unmatched speed, agility, accuracy and efficiency. As the backbone of commerce the Symbotic platform transforms the flow of goods and the economics of supply chain for its customers. For more information, visitwww.symbotic.com.

We are a community of innovators, collaborators and pioneers who embrace our differences, because we know unique perspectives make us stronger and smarter. Every perspective matters. We depend on the collective voices of our employees, customers and community to help guide us as we build a better place to work – for you and the world. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.

JOB LOCATION:
Waltham, MA 02254
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