Electrical Engineer, Fauna

As a Hardware Development Engineer you will design build and validate the electronic systems inside our robot platform spanning everything from compute to power distribution and peripheral interfaces. You will collaborate closely with firmware engineers mechanical designers and manufacturing partners to take board designs from concept through production. The ideal candidate is hands-on comfortable owning a board end-to-end has a track record of successful board spins and thrives in a fast-paced environment where hardware decisions directly impact robot capability and safety.

Key job responsibilities
As a Hardware Development Engineer you will work cross-functionally with electrical firmware mechanical and manufacturing engineers to design and deliver the PCBAs that power our robotic platform. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about hands-on board design and thrive owning hardware from schematic through production.

- Lead electrical design for PCBAs across the robotic platform - including schematic capture component selection architecture and design considerations for signal integrity manufacturability testability and cost
- Develop and review PCB layouts for multi-layer boards with high-speed digital interfaces (PCIe USB MIPI Ethernet EtherCAT) ensuring impedance control power integrity and EMC compliance
- Design power distribution systems including DC-DC converters LDOs power sequencing load switches and protection circuits for a multi-voltage robotic system
- Develop execute and automate electrical test plans - including board bring-up functional verification and production test strategy (boundary scan ICT functional test)
- Conduct troubleshooting root cause analysis and implement design modifications throughout the product lifecycle - including prototype debug failure analysis and manufacturing yield improvement
- Partner with firmware engineers on hardware-software co-development peripheral interface definition and board support package bring-up
- Manage relationships with external vendors PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers including DFM review stack-up optimization and production support
- Maintain design documentation including schematics BOMs design rationale test reports and engineering change orders


About the team
Fauna Robotics an Amazon company is building capable safe and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future wont arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. Were changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster safer and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design control systems dynamic modeling and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality but experience. Were building robots that feel responsive expressive and genuinely useful.
At Fauna youll work at the frontier of this space helping define how robots move manipulate and interact with people in natural environments. Its an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable were interested in hearing from you.

- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 3 years of experience in PCBA-level circuit design for consumer electronics robotics industrial or automotive applications Experience with electrical design verification electronics test equipment (e.g. oscilloscope logic analyzer multimeter power supply soldering/rework tools) and board bring-up
- Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Altium Designer Cadence or similar)
- Familiarity with complex embedded electronics architectures and interconnections - including SoCs MCUs DRAM storage and digital communication interfaces (e.g. USB Ethernet SPI I2C MIPI)
- Experience with power architecture design power supply design (e.g. LDOs switching regulators) and power distribution networks

- Proficiency with Altium Designer
- Experience with high-speed interface design and verification (PCIe USB 3.x MIPI CSI Ethernet EtherCAT)
- Experience with SoC/SoM-based compute board design (Qualcomm NVIDIA or similar application processors)
- Experience with signal integrity and power integrity analysis tools (e.g. HSpice ADS SIwave PowerSI)
- Experience with motor driver circuits gate drivers or power stage design for BLDC actuators
- Experience with IMU or inertial sensor electrical design and integration
- Familiarity with battery management systems (BMS) and lithium-ion battery integration
- Experience working with contract manufacturers on production board builds DFM optimization and factory test development
- Familiarity with functional safety hardware mechanisms (e.g. watchdogs voltage monitors safe-state circuits) or safety standards (IEC 61508 ISO 13849)
- Experience with programming languages for test automation (e.g. Python C/C MATLAB)

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA San Francisco - 134900.00 - 185000.00 USD annually
USA CA Sunnyvale - 134900.00 - 185000.00 USD annually