Senior Staff Electrical Engineer (On-site)

The role

You will lead the hardware of the Bolt mobile manipulation platform from concept through safety-certified fleet. You will set hardware architecture, lead a team of engineers, and own the power system including battery pack and charger integration.

What you will do

• Lead the Bolt hardware team of mechanical and electrical engineers
• Set electrical and mechanical architecture and plan prototype builds
• Own the hardware side of AMR safety certification with Functional Safety
• Specify, select, and integrate the battery pack, BMS, and charger from a manufacturer
• Drive key architecture and component decisions through requirements and trade studies
• Perform schematic capture, high-current PCB layout, board bring-up, and test plans
• Design for safety and certification including fault analysis and power-cutoff paths
• Hire, mentor, and grow the hardware team
• Act as the primary technical contact for battery, charger, drive, and PCBA vendors

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering (or related)
• 10+ years designing, building, and testing power systems and PCBAs
• Experience leading the hardware of an AMR, AGV, or similar mobile robot taken through production
• Experience taking an AMR or similar machine through third-party safety certification (ISO 3691-4, ANSI/RIA R15.08, UL 3100)
• Mastery of high-current distribution, pre-charge and protection circuits, DC/DC conversion, motor-drive power stages, and regen and bus-capacitance behavior
• Working knowledge of BMS behavior (balancing, SoC/SoH, protection limits, CAN interface)
• Working knowledge of IEC 62133 / UL 2271 at the pack interface and EMC (IEC 61000 series)
• Experience leading engineers through an NPI cycle
• Proficient in Altium Designer for schematic capture and multi-layer, high-current layout
• Proficient in LTspice or similar for simulation
• Proficient in Python for test automation
• Proficiency with scope, current probe, thermal camera, and bench instruments

Nice to have

• Mechanical design of mobile robots (chassis, drivetrain, battery packaging)
• Custom battery pack design (cell selection, pack mechanical and thermal design, BMS hardware)
• Motor control (FOC, current sensing) and inverter design for traction or robot joints
• Real-time industrial fieldbuses (EtherCAT, CAN/CANopen) and safety fieldbus
• Taking products from prototype through NPI to volume manufacturing — DFM/DFT, test fixtures, yield improvement

Benefits

• Employee Stock Options
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)

About the company

Standard Bots is revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone through an AI-powered platform.