- Robot type
- Drone · Service and Consumer
- Location
- CharlotteNorth CarolinaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 20, 2026
Full-time
Power Electronics / Electrical Systems Engineer
Job description
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, we design, engineer, manufacture, and support our products in the United States. Our production-ready robots are deployed by customers around the world — from global enterprises to independent owner-operators — to improve safety, increase productivity, and elevate operational standards.
We are one of the fastest-growing manufacturing companies in the United States, recently ranked fourth nationally, and we just closed a $20M Series B to fuel our next chapter at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world impact.
We're building more than robots—we're building the future of physical AI.
At Lucid Bots, we're building something extraordinary - and…
Job responsibilities
- Design the high-voltage DC power transmission architecture for the tether, including selection of transmission voltage to minimize conductor mass and resistive loss over tether length.
- Design and specify DC-DC conversion stages (step-up at the ground station, step-down onboard the drone), targeting high efficiency at 7 kW continuous load.
- Size tether conductor gauge, insulation, and connectors for continuous current plus 10 kW peak inrush, with appropriate derating and safety margin.
- Define current limits, protection thresholds, and coordinate over-current and fault behavior with the onboard power distribution.
- Own thermal management of converters, connectors, and cabling across the full load range.
- Integrate the power system with the drone's ESCs and flight controller, ensuring stable behavior during peak transients and load steps.
- Coordinate with mechanical engineering on the tether reel, strain relief, and cable routing, and with safety and compliance staff on high-voltage standards, grounding, and arc-flash mitigation.
- Produce schematics, power budgets, test plans, and design documentation for design reviews.
Job requirements
- You hold a Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, or you have equivalent hands-on experience that tells the same story.
- You've shipped multiple electronics products to production. That's how we think about seniority here: not years on a resume, but hardware you've taken from concept to the real world.
- You have proven experience designing power electronics in the multi-kilowatt range, including DC-DC converter design. You've owned the design, not just contributed to it.
- You have working knowledge of high-voltage DC systems, conductor sizing, and thermal management from real systems you've built and validated.
- You've integrated power systems with three-phase motor drives and ESCs, and you understand how those interfaces behave under load.
- You're comfortable with electrical safety standards, grounding design, and protection design.
- Experience with tethered drones, UAV power systems, or long-cable power delivery
- Familiarity with EMI/EMC design and mitigation