- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Jul 22, 2026
- Salary
- $200,000–$350,000 a year
Full-time
Electrical Engineer
Job description
We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.
The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs—with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs.
At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone.
Job responsibilities
- Owning electrical designs through the full lifecycle: concept, architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout, fabrication, bring-up, validation, and scaled production
- Designing sensing and motor control electronics for robot systems that are low latency, high fidelity, and robust in challenging environments with industrial interfaces (e.g. RS-485, CAN)
- Designing multi-sensor architectures interfacing with highly integrated latest generation SoCs
- Architecting power delivery systems with complex power trees and different sources (802.3bt, USB-C PD, LiPo)
- Battery charging and power path management within tight power and thermal budgets in compact enclosures
- Writing and debugging embedded firmware (C, C++, Rust) on microcontrollers or low level Linux device drivers for bring up, test, and production
- Partnering closely with mechanical engineers on enclosure integration, thermal design, connector selection and placement, cabling
- Driving designs to production: DFM and DFT, EMC and regulatory certification (FCC, CE), test fixture development, and manufacturing ramp with in-house resources, external design partners, or contract manufacturers