Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Title: Principal Electrical Engineer

Location: Woburn MA - On-site

Duration: Full-time

Salary open to market.

About the job

Company Overview

Client is a well-funded embodied AI and robotics startup based outside of Boston. Our founding team is Colin Angle (founder and former CEO of iRobot) Ira Renfrew (former CPO of Outrider) and Chris Jones (former CTO of iRobot). We are pioneering an exciting new category of home robot in the health and wellness space. Embodied and agentic AI are central enablers to our product vision.

Role Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Principal Electrical Engineer to spearhead the development and delivery of consumer robotics hardware and guide its evolution from prototype into production-grade systems. This role demands a unique blend of technical expertise problem-solving creativity and leadership to design cutting-edge electrical systems for robotic and consumer product applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead electrical engineering efforts for hardware development from system architecture and prototype iteration through preparing designs for manufacturability with overseas partners.
• Collaborate across disciplines to design prototype and deliver innovative solutions that meet performance power efficiency and reliability goals
• Guide the evolution of prototype electrical systems into robust production-ready designs ensuring alignment with assembly processes cost targets and certifications.
• Ensure designs meet consumer-grade safety durability usability and compliance standards; support early regulatory preparation and validation tests.
• Lead schematic design and layout efforts ensuring reliability ease of assembly and seamless hand-off to manufacturing partners; incorporating DFM/DFT feedback while maintaining startup agility.
• Develop and optimize power management and battery systems that meet the unique constraints of consumer robotics power energy and life requirements.
• Provide technical leadership mentorship and guidance as the electrical engineering team scales establishing processes appropriate for a fast-moving startup entering production.
• Oversee the design of motor controllers for precise motion control including refinement for DFM/DFA and reliability.
• Select integrate and optimize sensors (e.g. cameras LiDAR IMUs) critical to robotic functionality supporting both fast iteration in prototyping and reliability in early production builds.
• Design and analyze complex circuits including power electronics mixed-signal processing and communication systems balancing rapid development needs with long-term product scalability.
• Provide technical leadership mentorship and guidance as the electrical engineering team scales establishing processes appropriate for a fast-moving startup entering production.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience bringing robotic or consumer hardware products from concept to production.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring skills within fast-paced high-ownership engineering environments.
• Experience collaborating with supply chain and manufacturing to evaluate component availability refine BOM costs and support builds with manufacturing partners from EVT through to Pilot.
• Familiarity with regulatory standards and certification of consumer electronics (FCC CE UL etc.).
• Strong expertise in circuit design power systems motor control and sensor integration for embedded or robotic systems.
• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

Join Us:

If you re passionate about creating innovative cutting-edge robotic systems for consumer products and excited to join a fast-moving hardware team where you ll see your designs directly applied to our robots we d love to hear from you. Be part of a team pushing the boundaries of what s possible building a first-of-its-kind consumer robotics product with direct real-world impact.