Job Description
Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer
Sydney | Full-time | Onsite / Hybrid
The Mission
Own the hard electronics gap between prototype and product across 13 to 15 custom boards, high-speed compute, Jetson architecture, sensing, power and compliance.
The Challenge
- Designing and reviewing complex embedded PCBs across compute, sensing, power and robotics electronics
- Working with PCIe, Ethernet, Nvidia Jetson and other high-speed board-level constraints
- Taking prototype electronics toward manufacturable, testable and compliant product hardware
- Building EMC / EMI, intrinsic safety, protection and reliability thinking into design decisions early
- Reviewing schematics, layouts, BOMs and component choices before issues become field or production problems
- Creating practical verification, pre-compliance and production test plans that support real release decisions
- Working tightly with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing teams where board design, packaging and build reality collide
- This is senior IC work for someone who wants real ownership of complex hardware, not one small slice of a slower machine
The Bar
- Strong schematic and PCB design experience, ideally in Altium
- High-speed digital or compute-board experience, especially PCIe, Ethernet or similar
- Experience taking embedded electronics beyond R&D and into real products
- Practical EMC / EMI design judgement across layout, grounding, shielding, filtering and cabling
- Strong understanding of power distribution, switching regulators, mixed-signal design and protection
- Comfort reviewing others’ work and giving clear technical direction without turning it into theatre
- Manufacturing, test, compliance or certification exposure in hardware that had to survive real use
- Jetson's highly regarded. Intrinsic safety's highly regarded. Motor control's useful. Complex board ownership matters most
The Hire
Someone who has seen boards behave on the bench and misbehave everywhere else.
- You understand that the hard part is not just making the circuit work. It is making it work inside a compact robot with motors, batteries, sensors, cables, compliance expectations and manufacturing variance
- You are hands-on, senior enough to challenge assumptions, and still practical enough to move at startup pace
The "Why me?"
- The team has built impressive prototypes. The next stage needs senior electrical depth across complexity, review, scale-up and productisation
- This role exists to help the hardware become repeatable, compliant and reliable before the same problems scale
The "Why this?"
- Work across 13 to 15 custom boards, not one narrow subsystem
- Help shape the electrical function before it becomes rigid
- Influence how hardware moves from prototype into manufacture
- Stay close to real engineering trade-offs across compute, sensing, power, safety and mechanics
- Join a growing lab environment with proper electrical setup planned as the company scales
If you like complex embedded hardware and the uncomfortable bit between prototype and product, reach out