Senior Electrical Engineer

What we need 

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Functional Safety team within our Hardware Engineering organization. Your job will be to architect, design, and implement our custom high-performance computing platform for our safety critical industrial vision system. This means developing state-of-the art hardware with a rigorous approach to reliability and fault tolerance.  

What we do 

The Functional Safety team is integral in ensuring that Symbotic's efficient and cutting-edge warehouse automation solutions adhere to the highest standards of safety and compliance.  

What you’ll do 

• Own the electrical engineering activities in all phases from specification and design to implementation and verification/validation testing. 

• Play a hands-on role as part of the engineering teams developing solutions. 

• Lead generation of detailed electrical schematics (we use OrCAD CIS), circuit design, defining routing constraints, layout review and PCB manufacturing guidance. 

• Responsible for managing technical activities for assigned projects and design integration with electro-mechanical and software systems. 

• Design of power distribution networks (LDO, VR) as well as post layout power integrity analysis 

• Experience in lab bring-up, certification lab system testing, and debugging system level issues in customer sites  

• Develop a deep understanding of IEC 61508 functional safety requirements as they relate to hardware deployment. 

• Play a role in coaching and providing guidance for other electrical engineers on the team.   

• Travel to customer sites to support new installations. Travel up to 20%.  

What you’ll need 

• Bachelors or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or related degree.   

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in the field of electrical design.   

• Experienced with industrial PC design, embedded system design or graphic card design and comfortable designing with modern CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs  

• Familiar with high speed SERDES based I/Fs (e.g. PCIe) and SDRAM I/Fs (e.g. DDR3)  

• A first-principles thinker who can invent novel solutions to challenging technical problems  

• You have experience with high-speed, high-power, embedded system design  

• You have proficiency with all standard hardware lab equipment including scopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, dynamic loads, protocol analyzers  

• Travel to customer sites to support new installations. Travel up to 20%.  

Bonus Points  

• Experience with regulated environments such as medical devices/ISO 13485 or functional safety/IEC 61508/ISO 13849, DO-178C/DO-254 or IEC 26262  

• Knowledge of local and national standards is a plus (UL, EN, IEC). 

Our Environment  

• Up to 20% of travel may be required. Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.

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