Principal Electrical Engineer (Compute and Sensing)

Join Apptronik, a leading robotics company, as a Principal Electrical Engineer. In this top-tier technical role, you will serve as the lead architect for the "nervous system" of the Apollo humanoid robot. You will be responsible for the end-to-end hardware architecture, high-performance PCB design, manufacturing and reliability, multi-modal sensing, data pipeline optimization, safety architecture, diagnostics, and defining the long-term technical roadmap. You will also act as the ultimate technical authority on compute/sensing during design reviews and provide deep technical mentorship to electrical and embedded engineers.

• Lead the design and implementation of the high-performance compute and sensory backbone for the Apollo humanoid robot.
• Own the end-to-end design of Apollo’s safe compute architecture, including the selection of core processing elements and system-level redundancy.
• Define the long-term technical roadmap for Apollo’s compute and sensing evolution, identifying emerging technologies to keep Apptronik at the cutting edge.
• Hands-on experience with Functional Safety architecture (ISO 26262 or equivalent)
• Tools: Proficiency with Altium Designer (or similar) and hardware simulation tools (SPICE, Ansys, or HyperLynx)
• Experience integrating multi-sensor suites with precise hardware-level time synchronization
• Mastery of high-speed digital design (PCIe, DDR4/5, GMSL, 10GbE)
• Expertise: * Proven track record of designing custom carrier boards for NVIDIA Jetson or similar high-end compute modules
• Experience: 12+ years of experience in high-performance hardware design, with a focus on robotics, autonomous vehicles, or aerospace
• Education: M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
• Hearing and speech to communicate
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer