Senior Electrical Engineer (Power Electronics)

Nimble Robotics

San Francisco, United States Posted October 2, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$180,000 - $230,000

Job Description

Join our team as a Senior Electrical Engineer specializing in power electronics for robotic platforms. You will be responsible for designing motor controller boards and power distribution boards, owning the work from architecture and component selection through validation and production. You will collaborate with mechanical, firmware, controls, and software engineers to build hardware that performs under real operating conditions. Additionally, you will write and run validation plans, diagnose failures, and drive the team's electrical design best practices.

  • Conception et conception de cartes de contrôle de moteur et de distribution d'énergie pour des plateformes robotiques.
  • Responsabilité de l'architecture de l'étage de puissance, de la capture de schéma, de la sélection des composants et des revues de conception de PCB.
  • Collaboration avec des ingénieurs en mécanique, en firmware, en contrôle et en logiciel pour intégrer et tester chaque système.
  • Lab experience with oscilloscopes, current probes, electronic loads, power analyzers, and thermal cameras
  • Experience with thermal analysis, power integrity, grounding, creepage and clearance, and high-current PCB layout
  • A record of shipping hardware products to production
  • Proficiency with Altium, OrCAD, KiCad, or a comparable PCB design tool
  • Experience designing motor controller boards, power distribution boards, DC/DC converters, inverters, or related power systems
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • Knowledge of EMC/EMI design, functional safety, and regulatory compliance
  • Ability to run circuit, power electronics, and thermal simulations to validate designs before hardware testing
  • Knowledge of power semiconductors, gate drives, current and voltage sensing, magnetics, protection circuits, and control loops
  • 4+ years designing power electronics, motor drives, or high-current embedded hardware
  • Familiarity with embedded systems and protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, and UART
  • Power electronics experience in electric vehicles, mobile robots, industrial robotics, or autonomous systems
  • Experience with three-phase BLDC/PMSM motor drives, field-oriented control, regenerative braking, and motor characterization
  • Experience with batteries, battery management systems, pre-charge circuits, contactors, fusing, and high-current or high-voltage distribution
  • Knowledge of embedded firmware, motor-control algorithms, and low-level software interfaces
  • Experience developing high-reliability or safety-critical systems
  • Familiarity with DFM, DFA, production testing, and manufacturing processes
  • A record of learning new design methods and applying AI tools to component research, circuit analysis, design reviews, documentation, or debugging
Required Skills
electrical engineering controllership collaboration compliance testing manufacturing
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