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About the Role
As the founding electrical engineer for actuators at Foundation, you will own the electrical architecture from concept through production. This role involves driving efficiency, reliability, manufacturability, and system performance by focusing on motor controls, power electronics, embedded systems, sensing, and hardware integration to create highly optimized actuator platforms. You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to establish electrical foundations, engineering standards, and technical direction for a rapidly growing actuator team. Collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams is key to rapidly prototyping, validating, and industrializing new actuator technologies at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the electrical architecture from concept through production.
- Drive efficiency, reliability, manufacturability, and system performance.
- Focus on motor controls, power electronics, embedded systems, sensing, and hardware integration.
- Create highly optimized actuator platforms.
- Establish electrical foundations, engineering standards, and technical direction.
- Collaborate with mechanical, controls, firmware, and manufacturing engineers.
- Rapidly prototype, validate, and industrialize new actuator technologies at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional or equivalent experience in motor controls, power electronics, or related fields.
- Experience designing motor controllers or other power electronics for precision applications, preferably in robotics or advanced automation.
- Strong understanding of inverter circuit and topology design, current sensing, and control algorithms.
- Deep proficiency in building embedded architectures, from silicon and SoC selection to low-level firmware and integration of hardware and software.
- Experience with thermal and electrical efficiency optimization in high-performance systems.
- Comfortable working with simulation tools for control systems (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink) and circuit design (e.g., Altium, LTspice).
- Demonstrated collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to integrate overall robotic systems.
Skills
- Motor controls
- Power electronics
- Embedded systems
- Sensing
- Hardware integration
- Inverter circuit design
- Topology design
- Current sensing
- Control algorithms
- Embedded architecture design
- Silicon and SoC selection
- Low-level firmware
- Hardware and software integration
- Thermal optimization
- Electrical efficiency optimization
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Altium
- LTspice
Experience Level
- 5+ years of professional or equivalent experience
Education Level
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field.
- Ph.D. or equivalent experience is a plus.
About the Company
- Foundation is building a world-class in-house actuator organization to define the next generation of robotic performance.
- This is a rare opportunity to help architect the motors, controllers, and electrical systems that will power every robot we build.