Senior Electrical Engineer

San Mateo, United States
Full-time

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer with 5+ years of experience to own electrical system integration across cutting-edge robotics platforms at Skild AI. You'll be the go-to expert for power electronics, EMC, and sensor integration — bridging the gap between software/firmware and physical motion control as we build the world's first general-purpose robotic intelligence.

What will you be doing?

  • Designing and validating motor driver circuits, power electronics, and sensor electronics systems for robot platforms

  • Defining grounding, shielding, filtering, and cable strategies across the robot and driving EMC risk mitigation early in the design cycle

  • Integrating sensor data (IMUs, encoders, hall sensors, cameras) at the PCB level

  • Debugging EMC and hardware issues hands-on in the lab using scopes, spectrum analyzers, and other test equipment

  • Making system-level tradeoffs across performance, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and schedule while partnering with EE, ME, firmware, and controls teams

Key Requirements

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related field with hands-on experience taking electrical hardware from concept through production

  • Strong expertise in EMC/EMI design, debugging, grounding, shielding, filtering, and signal/power integrity

  • Proficiency in power electronics design — motor drives, switching power supplies, high-current DC systems, and battery management

  • Strong PCB design and layout skills with a system-level approach to solving EMC problems

  • Comfortable making decisions with incomplete requirements and communicating tradeoffs across multiple disciplines

About Skild AI

Skild AI is building the world's first general-purpose robotic intelligence — an omnibodied AI brain that can be deployed into any hardware platform, from humanoid robots to warehouse automation systems to quadrupeds. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Skild AI takes a fundamentally different approach to the robotics race: rather than building a single robot, they've created a platform-agnostic foundation model that makes any robot a dramatically better version of itself.

The company operates at the intersection of massive-scale machine learning and physical robotics, believing that data-driven AI is the key to unlocking robust robotic intelligence that adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. Their customers include major technology companies like Amazon and NVIDIA, who integrate Skild's brain into their own hardware platforms.

With over $1.8 billion in funding from world-class investors including SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, and Samsung, Skild AI has grown from a 12-person team to nearly 200 employees in under two years. The company also pursues strategic acquisitions — such as Fetch Robotics — to expand their hardware footprint and demonstrate the transformative power of their AI when deployed into existing platforms.

Skild AI fosters a fast-paced, high-ownership startup culture where team members work directly with founders and have outsized impact. The founding team emerged from CMU's robotics ecosystem, and the company values demonstrated ability and attitude over pedigree, welcoming individuals from new graduates to domain experts who are passionate about exploring uncharted territory in embodied AI.

Required skills

Power Electronics
Motor Driver Circuits
PCB Design & Layout
EMC/EMI Design
Analog Circuit Design
Battery Management Systems
IMU Integration
Encoder Integration
Hall Sensors
GMSL
CAN Bus
Ethernet
USB
SPI
I2C
RS-485
RF Systems
Antenna Integration
Oscilloscopes
Spectrum Analyzers
LISN
Network Analyzers

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Job details

Salary

$180,000 - $240,000

Location

San Mateo, United States

Experience

5+ years

Company

NameSkild AI
Industryai, robotics, software_development, hardware
Team Size100

Funding

Total raised

$1.8B

Last stage

Series C

Investors

SSoftBank Group
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Sequoia Capital
NNVentures (NVIDIA)
Coatue

Founders

Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta

President & Co-Founder

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Deepak Pathak

Deepak Pathak

CEO & Co-Founder

LinkedIn

What happens next.

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01

Confirm the fit

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02

I pitch you to the company

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03

A meeting lands on your calendar

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