Senior Electrical Engineer, Embedded Hardware

About the role

You will own the low-voltage electrical architecture and embedded hardware connecting sensing, computation, communications, and control. The work spans sensor and compute selection, mixed-signal interfaces, network physical layers, custom interface and controller boards, connectors, harness drawings, grounding, shielding, electromagnetic compatibility, and board bring-up under real switching, vibration, and configuration changes.

Power Electronics owns high-current conversion, motor drives, pulsed EPM stages, protection, and energy interfaces. Embedded Software owns firmware, drivers, diagnostics, and update behavior. Robotics Systems owns subsystem selection and integration; State Estimation and Perception own the algorithms consuming sensor data; Mechanical owns physical packaging. You own the released electrical design and measured signal integrity connecting them.

What you will do

• Translate sensing, compute, communications, calibration, diagnostic, environmental, and fault requirements into electrical architectures, interface specifications, signal budgets, and verification plans.

• Select and integrate cameras, inertial sensors, encoders, force or torque sensors, ranging sensors, embedded compute, timing devices, and communication components against measured system requirements.

• Design and release mixed-signal, digital, sensor-interface, communication, power-sequencing, and controller-support circuitry with controlled schematics, PCB layouts, bills of material, and revision history.

• Own connector selection, pinouts, cable and harness drawings, shielding, grounding, separation, derating, strain relief, service loops, continuity requirements, and electrical acceptance criteria.

• Bring up boards, sensors, compute, and networks using oscilloscopes, logic and bus analyzers, spectrum or network instrumentation, programmable supplies, thermal measurements, and automated acquisition.

• Characterize signal integrity, noise, clock and time-distribution behavior, communication margin, startup and brownout behavior, grounding, emissions susceptibility, and injected faults on representative assemblies.

• Carry embedded hardware through design review, supplier fabrication, inspection, assembly, programming support, calibration, machine integration, manufacturing test, nonconformance closure, and verified release.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Released and brought up embedded electronics for a robot, vehicle, instrument, industrial machine, or comparable electromechanical product using controlled schematics, PCB layouts, bills of material, and revisions.

• Designed mixed-signal or digital interfaces involving sensors, embedded compute, clocks, converters, communication physical layers, protection, filtering, and power sequencing.

• Produced connector pinouts and cable or harness documentation, then verified continuity, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, communication margin, or electromagnetic performance on assembled hardware.

• Closed an electrical integration failure by reproducing it with bench instrumentation, identifying the physical or circuit-level root cause, releasing a correction, and demonstrating the fix through repeated test.

Preferred experience

• Robotics sensors, embedded compute, CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, MIPI, USB, LVDS, precision analog acquisition, or distributed time synchronization.

• High-reliability harnessing, grounding and shielding, EMI or EMC testing, environmental qualification, or electrically noisy motion systems.

• Hardware-in-the-loop systems, production programming and calibration, automated board test, supplier technical review, or low-volume complex electromechanical builds.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $160,000–$230,000. Actual compensation will be determined by the scope of ownership, demonstrated technical ability, and relevant experience. This role is also eligible for meaningful early-stage equity.

Working at GRAM

This role is based on-site in El Segundo. Work moves among schematic and layout review, harness tables, bench bring-up, sensor calibration, robot integration, environmental testing, and failure teardown. You will work directly with power-electronics, embedded-software, mechanical, controls, perception, state-estimation, systems, manufacturing, reliability, and safety engineers.