Atlas Electrical Engineering Manager, Actuation

As an Electrical Engineering Manager for Actuation on the Atlas team, you will guide an electrical engineering team in the design, build and troubleshooting of compact electrical systems in robot products, focused on systems embedded in our actuators including motor control. Your team will own all aspects of electrical system design from initial architecture, through implementation, and into production. You will provide technical leadership, personnel management, and make meaningful technical contributions.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Manage resources to meet schedules and goals of objective based assignments
• Guide, mentor, and develop your team members
• Manage efficient and effective decision making with a balance of empowerment and oversight
• Provide technical leadership in planning, architecting, and executing electrical system designs
• Collaborate with other managers and engineers on hard design problems, work across disciplines to understand failure modes and design tests to validate design performance
• Work with manufacturing, suppliers, technicians, contract manufacturers, and logistics to guarantee that the right electrical systems are assembled and functional in the right place at the right time
• Drive best practices in design, analysis, simulation, testing, and documentation
• Troubleshoot issues, root cause failure analysis, design and implement corrective and preventative solutions
  
  

We Are Looking For

• Experience managing an engineering team in a product development environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using schematic capture and PCB layout software
• Experience designing brushless motor drivers and/or high power switching converters
• Experience designing space-constrained electronics that are highly integrated with mechanical components
• Experience with volume manufacturing
• Experience with sensors and analog design such as encoders, IMUs, and current sensing
• Working understanding of Functional Safety, Compliance, and EMC/EMI testing and troubleshooting
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals and intuition for mechanical engineering constraints
  
  

Nice To Have

• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as Ethernet and PCIe
• Strong hands-on lab skills such as soldering and using oscilloscopes
• Working knowledge of Linux, bootloaders, and peripheral drivers
• Working knowledge of failure avoidance methods like DFMEA/PFMEA and structured problem solving methods like 8D
• Experience bringing complex electromechanical products to market with robust design verification and at-vendor EOL/quality testing on PCBAs
  
  

The base pay range for this position is between $151,284.34 to $208,015.97 annually. Base pay will depend on multiple individualized factors including, but not limited to internal equity, job related knowledge, skills and experience. This range represents a good faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Boston Dynamics offers a generous Benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401(k), paid time off and a annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.