ABOUT STANDARD BOTS
At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.
What you'll do:
We're looking for an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead the team that owns the electronics at the heart of our robots: motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, battery management, and sensing boards. You will be accountable for the technical output of the entire electrical engineering team: the quality, schedule, and manufacturability of every board we design and release. You'll stay hands-on in design and in the lab, report to our Head of Hardware, and partner with Mechanical, Software, Functional Safety, and Manufacturing to ship hardware that is simple, reliable, and manufacturable at scale.
📍 Location
This is an on-site role based at our Glen Cove, NY factory, where our robots are designed, built, and tested. On-site, you'll have a fully equipped electronics lab, production robots, and our manufacturing floor steps from your desk.
Responsibilities
Lead the team
- Lead, hire, and grow the electrical engineering team: set clear goals, run 1:1s and performance reviews, and build a team where strong engineers do their best work
- Delegate effectively: match work to each engineer's strengths and growth, give clear ownership, and stay close enough to catch problems early without becoming the bottleneck
- Own the technical output of the team: plan and prioritize electrical work across programs, assign owners, track schedules, and hold the quality bar so every board that leaves the team is reviewed, tested, and ready for production
- Scope and estimate electrical work with hardware leadership, flag technical and schedule risks early, and make clear trade-offs between scope, schedule, and resources
- Put in place the right amount of process to keep the team fast and the engineering sound: design reviews, the component library, the release process, design checklists, and test standards, in partnership with the team's technical leads. Enough process to ensure good outcomes, never so much that it slows the team down
- Work closely with the mechanical engineering team as one hardware team: co-own the electrical-mechanical interfaces (packaging, thermal, cabling, connectors), plan builds together, and solve integration problems side by side
- Represent electrical engineering in cross-functional decisions with Software, Functional Safety, Manufacturing, and Product, and drive those decisions to closure
- Mentor early-career engineers: teach good design and debug habits through reviews and time in the lab, and advise associate, mid-level, and senior engineers on technical and personal advancement
Stay hands-on
- Spend roughly 75% of your time on hands-on engineering for the first few months: schematic capture, PCB layout (including high-current power and high-speed digital), board bring-up, test plans, and root-cause debugging in the lab on our most critical boards. As the team grows, there will still be a lot of technical review but individual design work will drop to 25% or less over time as the team grows, however you will stay deeply involved in the technical decisions and work of the team
- Drive key architecture and component decisions through conceptual design, requirements definition, and trade studies, and advise hardware leadership on technical strategy
- Own the relationship with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors; drive DFM/DFA feedback into designs, and support production issues
Who you are
We don't require a background in robotics, but we do require deep, hands-on electronics experience and a track record of leading engineers.
We're looking for leaders who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, resourceful, and highly collaborative. We have no requirement for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply deep electronics expertise (from motor drives, power electronics, embedded compute, automotive, or aerospace) to robots they can watch move.
Skills you'll bring:
- Experience: You have a bachelor's or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering (or a related field), 15+ years designing, building, and testing PCBAs, including designs you've taken through production release, and 7+ years leading and managing electrical engineers
- Leadership: You have hired, coached, and grown engineers, including early-career engineers; you set clear priorities, give direct feedback, and hold a high technical bar
- Delegation: You delegate well: you give engineers real ownership, trust them with it, and step in only where your help changes the outcome
- Right-sized Process: You know how much process a fast-moving hardware team needs, and you add it only where it improves speed or engineering outcomes
- Cross-team Communication: You have a very strong ability to communicate with other teams and departments across the company (Software, Functional Safety, Manufacturing, Product, and leadership): you explain electrical trade-offs in terms each team understands, share plans, status, and risks early, and build the trust that lets cross-team decisions happen quickly
- Collaboration: You are very collaborative across the company; you work as one team with mechanical engineers, and you treat the electrical-mechanical interface as a shared problem, not a handoff. Ability to collaborate with Production, Operations, Procurement, Quality, Customer support, etc. will be key to success in this role.
- Ownership of Output: You plan and deliver a team's work against real schedules, catch problems in review before they reach the lab or the factory, and take responsibility for what your team ships
- EE Depth: You have mastery of power electronics (motor drivers and inverter stages, switch-mode supplies, power sequencing and protection), digital electronics (MCUs, FPGAs, Ethernet, USB, SPI/I2C/UART, signal-integrity fundamentals), and analog electronics (op-amps, filters, ADC/DAC signal chains, precision sensing)
- Tool Fluency: You're proficient in Altium Designer (or similar EDA tools) for schematic capture and multi-layer layout, including constraint-driven routing for high-speed and high-current designs
- Debugging Mastery: You know how to attack a hardware problem with a scope, logic/protocol analyzer, and bench instruments, document what you find, and converge on a fix quickly, and you teach your team to do the same
- Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication: clear design documentation, crisp trade studies, and design reviews that make your team better
- Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism; a reliable, manufacturable board that ships beats an elegant one that never leaves the lab
- Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity, and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed designs or incumbent hardware
- Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
- Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds
Bonus points for:
- Building or scaling an electrical engineering team at a hardware startup, including setting up design standards, release processes, and lab infrastructure
- Leading engineers across more than one site or program at the same time
- High-speed design (PCIe Gen1–5, USB3/4, MIPI, GMSL, 10G Ethernet) with high-current power delivery for compute modules, and a working understanding of signal and power integrity (impedance control, crosstalk, PDN) and how to mitigate issues
- Camera electronics and image sensor integration (MIPI, GMSL, sensor power and clocking)
- Dense or space-constrained boards (HDI, flex, rigid-flex) and their fabrication trade-offs
- Motor electromagnetic design and motor control (FOC, current sensing, encoder interfaces), or control systems for robotic manipulation or locomotion
- Familiarity with embedded programming of DSPs, MCUs, and FPGAs; LTspice and Python for simulation, analysis, and test automation
- EMC/EMI design and regulatory compliance testing (CE/UL, IEC 61000 series), including pre-compliance debugging
- Real-time industrial fieldbuses (EtherCAT, CAN/CANopen, EtherNet/IP) and safety-rated electronics to ISO 13849 or IEC 61508 (redundant architectures, STO, safety fieldbus)
- Taking products from prototype through NPI to volume manufacturing: DFM/DFT, test fixtures, yield improvement
Compensation and Benefits:
The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $230,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
