Digital Design & SoC Architecture
About the role
This role owns electrical designs from concept through production across power, motor control, sensing, communication, and mixed-signal electronics for a robotics platform. Technical scope includes designing printed circuit board assemblies and interface boards connecting to NVIDIA Jetson and Thor platforms.
What you'll do
- Own electrical designs from concept through production spanning power, motor control, sensing, communication, and mixed-signal electronics.
- Generate schematics and PCB layouts to bring up main logic boards, control boards, test/characterization boards (SoCs, FPGAs, AFEs, ASICs, MCPs), and interface boards for high-speed video and networking to NVIDIA Jetson and Thor platforms.
- Design for volume manufacturing and support factory engineers through prototyping, product launch, failure analysis, and quality compliance.
- Develop engineering test plans and methodologies for in-circuit and functional testing.
- Validate power and signal integrity in the laboratory, diagnosing design issues and executing corrective actions.
- Resolve cross-functional architecture issues involving performance, power consumption, thermal behavior, and system integration.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 8 years of experience.
- Proficiency with Altium 365, Cadence OrCAD, Allegro, and PLM tools such as Arena.
- Deep specialization in SoCs, cameras, sensors, power/energy management architectures, and high-speed interfaces including USB 3.1 Gen 2, LPDDR4/4x, MIPI, 10G/25G Ethernet, and PCIe Gen 2/3.
- Hands-on experience with PCB layout of power distribution networks (PDN), analog, and digital signals accounting for system-level timing, loss budget, silicon, package, and board impairments.
- Experience with lab measurements, debugging, and SI correlations using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, and TDRs.
- Ability to travel internationally as needed.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree with additional relevant experience.
- Familiarity with Ansys SIwave, Ansys HFSS, Cadence Sigrity, or Keysight ADS.
- Experience with robotics, mobile platforms, or autonomous systems.
- Sensor integration experience with cameras, solid-state LiDAR, or IMUs.
- Embedded firmware and hardware integration experience in C/C++ or Python.
- Functional safety design experience under ISO 26262 or IEC 61508 standards.
- Data analysis experience using JMP or Excel.
Skills: perception systems, Physical AI, custom silicon, integrated sensors, robotics
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