Waltham, MA, USA
22 hours ago
Senior Electrical Engineer
Senior Electrical Engineer

Time type: full time

Posted on: February 18, 2025

Job requisition id: R4478

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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