- Robot type
- Humanoid
- Location
- AustinTexasUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 14, 2026
Full-time
Senior Electrical Engineer - Sensor FPGA and PCB (Aggregator)
Job description
We're looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to help design and build the electronics for Apollo's sensor bridge. Strong candidates will have experience with FPGA hardware for both PCBA design and RTL development. This role works closely with the perception team to give Apollo sight and enable critical safety functions. You'll take direct, hands-on ownership of defined subsystems within the board — schematic capture, layout guidance, and RTL blocks — executing against an architecture defined in partnership with the team's Staff and/or Principal engineers.
Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life.
Job responsibilities
- Electronics & FPGA Design Execution: Contribute to requirements definition and own part selection, schematic capture, layout guidance, and RTL implementation for assigned subsystems of a multi-Gbps, mixed-signal PCBA…
- High-Speed & Mixed-Signal Hardware Design: Design and validate high-speed digital interfaces (CSI-2, GMSL2/FPD-Link/PoC, 10GbE) including signal integrity, impedance control, and length-matching.
- FPGA RTL Development: Develop RTL (VHDL/Verilog) for CSI-2 ingest, Ethernet packetization, timestamp/metadata insertion, and camera synchronization logic for deterministic multi-camera and multi-IMU synchronization,…
- Validation, Bring-Up, and Debugging: Develop and execute validation plans for your assigned subsystems, spanning board-level and FPGA-level testing.
- Lifecycle Management & Vendor Alignment: Support the entire component lifecycle through PLM systems, managing third-party relationships with hardware vendors and contract manufacturers (CMs) to ensure successful…
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including technical lead, project managers, software, mechanical, thermal, systems engineers, and manufacturing.
- Technical Execution: Execute assigned work streams reliably and communicate progress clearly to technical leads and program management.
Job requirements
- Experience in FPGA hardware design for time-sensitive, high-performance applications (image processing, high-speed data acquisition, real-time networking, or similar), including:
- FPGA device selection and architecture definition
- RTL development in VHDL and/or Verilog
- High-speed interface design (CSI-2, GMSL/SerDes, Ethernet, PCIe, or comparable)
- Timing closure, clock-domain crossing, and resource optimization
- Integration of high-speed transceivers and external PHY devices
- FPGA tool flows (Vivado, Quartus, or Lattice Radiant) and simulation (ModelSim/Questa or equivalent)
- Understanding of high-speed digital design fundamentals: signal integrity, impedance-controlled routing, differential pairs, stack-up, and timing analysis across the board-to-FPGA boundary.