What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Electronics Design Engineer position at Symbiokinetics?
About Us
Symbiokinetics builds robotic systems that learn skilled physical interaction from human experts. Our robots operate in direct contact with people in high-stakes environments. They need to feel intuitive, predictable, and completely safe.
About the Role
You will design and implement the electronics, firmware, and signal conditioning that connect our sensors and actuators to the rest of our stack. You'll work closely with our VP of Engineering on board bring-up, motor control, and sensor integration, while owning subsystems end-to-end.
This is a hands-on role. You'll spend time at a bench with an oscilloscope as often as at a keyboard.
What You'll Do
- Implement drivers, firmware, and register-level configuration for sensors and actuators
- Design and debug signal conditioning circuits
- Bring up new sensor and motor control boards (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, EtherCAT)
- Support motor control development: current sensing, commutation, torque loop integration
- Build and maintain data acquisition rigs for recording sensor data during robot operation
- Read datasheets, write firmware for microcontrollers, debug communication protocols
- Collaborate with mechanical team on electronics packaging and thermal/power constraints
Required
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field
- 8-10 years working with embedded systems on physical products
- Experience with schematics capture and circuit board layout
- Proficient in C/C
- Experience with microcontrollers (STM32, ESP32, or similar) is a big plus
- Experience with sensor interfacing: ADCs, signal conditioning, filtering, calibration
- Comfortable reading schematics and datasheets, debugging with oscilloscope and logic analyzer
- Comfortable with at least one PCB design software (KiCad, Altium, or equivalent)
- Experience with communication protocols (SPI, I2C, CAN)
- Able to solder, rework boards, and build test fixtures
Nice to Have
- Motor control experience (BLDC commutation, FOC, current/torque loops)
- Experience with force/torque sensors, load cells, or strain gauge bridges
- Signal processing: digital filtering, noise characterization, oversampling
- FPGA experience (for low-latency signal processing)
- Familiarity with ROS2 for hardware interfacing
- Experience miniaturizing electronics for constrained form factor
- Power electronics
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Office lunches
Eligibility
This role requires access to export-controlled technical data. The applicant must be a U.S. Person: a citizen, permanent resident, or other protected individual.