Power Electronics Engineer, Charging

About the job

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

We are looking for an experienced Power Electronics Engineer to help us design and test critical hardware to power our Humanoid.

Responsibilities:

• Develop conceptual power architectures and conduct trade studies to support key design decisions

• Design and validate PCBAs for charging products, including both the power stages and the mixed-signal control boards

• Support design reviews (schematics, layouts, etc)

• Support system integration and hardware bring-up by contributing a hands-on, builder mentality to test execution and debugging

Requirements:

• Bachelor or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

• 4+ years of industry experience, you have designed and shipped multiple products to production

• Experience with grid-tied AC/DC (you must know how to design a PFC from scratch), DC/DC (Buck, Boost, Flyback, etc.), and resonant converters

• Hands-on experience designing mixed-signal circuits and control boards. You should deeply understand MCUs, their peripherals, and how to implement them in hardware

• Experience with high voltage applications, protection circuitry, and the common failure modes associated with power electronics designs

• Experience sizing and designing discrete power electronics (controllers, gate drivers, MOSFETs, inductors, XFRMs, caps, sensing, etc)

• Strong experience in EMI/EMC, filter design, and meeting safety/compliance standards

• Strong hardware debugging skills. You know how to attack a board or system level problem, document it, and fix it quickly

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) topologies and charging architectures

• Experience with Altium

• Experience with PCB layout, designing for power converters, and layout-level EMC mitigations

• Experience simulating power electronic circuits

• Experience working with embedded control systems and/or digital power control

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $250,000 annually.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.