Electrical Engineer High-Density Power Electronics and Sensor Integration
Proception Inc.
Help us build the future of robotics and shape the next generation of human-robot interaction. Legends Apply Here. As an intern on our humanoid robotics team, you won't just observe innovation—you'll help create it. You'll work alongside world-class engineers and researchers to design, prototype, and test the mechanical, electrical, and sensory systems that allow our robots to think, move, and interact like humans.
- Strong understanding of fundamental physics and engineering from first principles
- Strong communication skills and high attention to details
- Experienced in using CAD software to design parts with complex geometry
- Experience with conventional machining and rapid prototyping methods
- Experience with precision design and manufacturing
- Experience with SolidWorks or Fusion 360
- Experience with actuators and geartrains (strain-wave, planetary, cycloidal, or ball screws)
- Experience with electromechanical integration (sensors, motors, motor drivers, wire harnesses, and communication buses)
- 1+ years of mechanical engineering industry experience, including owning products from concept to production
- (+) Experience with humanoids, exoskeletons, prosthetics, soft robots, or tendon drives
- (+) Experience with testing and validation of mechanical systems
- (+) Experience with basic python and C/C++ for scripting and testing workflows
- Pursuing a BS or MS in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields
- Experience with Rust or C/C++ for embedded systems
- Hands-on experience with microcontrollers (STM32, ESP32, Nordic, or similar)
- Familiarity with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN/CAN-FD
- Basic understanding of control loops (PID), timing, interrupts, and real-time constraints
- Ability to read schematics and use basic lab equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, logic analyzer)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- (+) Experience with embedded Rust (Embassy), FreeRTOS, or bare-metal development
- (+) Experience with motor drivers, encoders, IMUs, or tactile sensors
- (+) Knowledge of ROS/ROS2, Python test scripts, or hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Robotics, Mechatronics, EE, or related fields
- Experience in Rust or C/C++ for embedded or firmware-level development
- Familiarity with Python for scripting and testing workflows
- Basic understanding of real-time control systems and motor interfaces
- Familiarity with embedded debugging tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
- (+) Exposure to RTOS environments or frameworks like FreeRTOS, Rust Embassy
- (+) Understanding of CAN, SPI, I2C, or other embedded communication protocols
- (+) Experience with ROS/ROS2 or hardware-in-the-loop testing setups
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, or related fields
- Experience in Python, and at least one of Rust or C++
- Familiarity with Linux, basic system tools, and shell scripting
- Experience working with real-time data, logging, or streaming systems
- (+) Familiarity with ROS, bag files, or robot data formats
- (+) Experience with visualization tools like Rerun, RViz, or web dashboards
- (+) Exposure to MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, or other robot simulators
- (+) Understanding of versioned data formats (e.g., MCAP, Cap’n Proto, Protobuf)
- Currently enrolled in an MS or PhD program in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field
- Strong foundation in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or policy optimization
- Experience with robot simulators (e.g., MuJoCo, Isaac Gym/Lab, Brax)
- Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch, JAX)
- Experience with vision-based policy learning or contact-rich manipulation tasks
- Familiarity with multi-modal sensor fusion (vision + proprioception + tactile)
- (+) Experience with diffusion policies, VLPs (e.g., RT-1/2, VIMA), or behavior cloning from video
- (+) Hands-on experience with robotic hardware or sim2real adaptation methods
- Deep knowledge of BLDC and servo motor control (FOC, current sensing, position feedback)
- Expertise in power electronics: switching regulators, gate drivers, current measurement, thermal management
- Proficiency with embedded communication protocols: CAN, CAN-FD, EtherCAT
- Experience integrating sensor arrays (force, tactile, IMUs, encoders) into embedded systems
- Comfortable designing robust power distribution and management systems with protection and monitoring features
- Strong embedded C/C++ and firmware development experience for real-time and RTOS-based systems
- Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation, thermal-aware layout, and high-current PCB design
- Skilled at hardware bring-up and debugging using tools like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and power analyzers
- Expertise with soft materials, polymers, composites, and stretchable/flexible PCBs
- Hands-on with advanced prototyping and fabrication techniques (e.g., soft lithography, roll-to-roll)
- Familiarity with simulation tools such as ANSYS, COMSOL, or equivalent
- Strong ability to prototype, iterate, and solve problems quickly in a startup environment
- Mastery of CAD (SolidWorks, Fusion), FEA, and precision design
- Experience prototyping with your own hands—machining, printing, assembling, debugging
- You've built geartrains—strain wave, planetary, cycloidal—or you've designed your own
- Fluent in tolerance stack-ups, material properties, thermal constraints, and load paths
- Designed for real-world wear, slop, EMI, torque ripple, and backlash
- Experience with humanoids, exoskeletons, prosthetics, soft robots, or tendon drives
- Startup reflexes: you bias toward execution, learn fast, and document like it matters
- (+) Experience with humanoids, exoskeletons, prosthetics, soft robots, or tendon drives
- (+) Experience with testing and validation of mechanical systems
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Vision, or a related field—or equivalent industry experience
- Strong background in SLAM, state estimation, and probabilistic sensor fusion
- Deep understanding of 3D geometry, multi-view geometry, camera models, and calibration
- Hands-on experience building perception systems for real robotic platforms
- Experience with neural scene representations such as NeRFs, neural occupancy grids, or implicit SDFs
- Proficiency in Python and C++ in Linux-based robotics environments
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and long-running perception or learning experiments
- Self-driven, systems-oriented, and excited about deploying perception on real robots
- (+) Familiarity with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) or embodied AI systems
- (+) Experience with tactile, force, or event-based sensors
- (+) Background in Gaussian splatting, neural SDFs, or hybrid geometric-learning map representations
- (+) Experience integrating perception outputs into manipulation or control pipelines
- (+) Familiarity with Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or photorealistic simulation environments
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field—or equivalent industry experience
- Experience integrating vision, tactile, force, or audio sensors in robotic systems
- Deep understanding of sensor fusion, time sync, calibration, and failure modes
- Strong grasp of probability, optimization, signal processing, and linear algebra
- Proficient in Python and PyTorch for model development
- Experience with C++ for high-performance or embedded deployment
- Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments and with embedded hardware
- (+) Experience training or fine-tuning ViTs, MAE, or transformer-based models
- (+) Experience with diffusion models for generative or representation learning
- (+) Experience with camera calibration, stereo/depth sensors, or event-based vision systems
- (+) Experience deploying perception models to real-time or resource-constrained platforms
- (+) Experience designing or managing sensor data collection pipelines for ML model training
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, or equivalent experience
- Strong experience building backend systems and APIs using TypeScript and/or Rust
- Experience designing and operating SQL and/or GraphQL-based systems
- Experience with modern web stacks for internal or customer-facing tools (Next.js, TypeScript, React)
- Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with networking, authentication, and security best practices
- Experience supporting data-intensive or ML-driven systems
- Comfort collaborating across robotics software, ML, and cloud infrastructure teams
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field—or equivalent experience
- Expertise in reinforcement learning (e.g. PPO, SAC, DAPG), behavior cloning, or diffusion policy learning
- Experience with foundation models or representation learning for robotic control (e.g. RT-1/2, BC-Z, VIMA, RT-Trajectory)
- Familiarity with contact-rich manipulation tasks (grasping, in-hand manipulation, tool use, etc.)
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and C++ (including JAX or PyTorch, Linux environments)
- Experience working with MuJoCo, Isaac Gym/Lab, or Brax for high-performance simulation
- Knowledge of sim2real techniques (domain randomization, dynamics adaptation, residual policy learning)
- Comfortable training policies on high-dimensional action spaces with vision and proprioception
- Experience with hardware deployment and data collection on real robot platforms
- (+) Familiarity with tactile sensing, vision-language policies (VLP), or differentiable simulation
- Strong experience with embedded Linux camera stacks (V4L2, Media Controller, libcamera)
- Hands-on experience bringing up MIPI CSI-2 cameras on SoCs such as RK3588 or Jetson Orin
- Understanding of MIPI CSI-2, D-PHY / C-PHY, lane configurations, and bandwidth constraints
- Experience with camera sensor drivers, device tree configuration, and kernel debugging
- Proficiency in Rust and C/C++ for embedded systems and kernel-adjacent development
- Experience with camera calibration (intrinsics, extrinsics, stereo, multi-camera rigs)
- Comfortable working with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and hardware bring-up tools
- Strong Linux fundamentals (drivers, DMA, memory, interrupts, power management)
- Pursuing or completed BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related fields
- Strong Rust (Embassy) and C/C++ experience in embedded firmware development
- Hands-on experience with low-power microcontrollers and SoCs (STM32, nRF52, ESP32, RP2040, or similar)
- Experience building wearable sensing pipelines using ADCs, SPI/I2C sensors, and DMA
- Understanding of digital signal processing for wearable signals: filtering, drift compensation, calibration, and sensor fusion
- Experience with wireless protocols such as BLE, Wi-Fi, or proprietary low-latency RF links
- Familiarity with power-aware firmware design: sleep states, duty cycling, latency vs. power tradeoffs
- Comfortable using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, RF sniffers, and JTAG/SWD debuggers
- (+) Experience with strain gauges, FSRs, IMUs, flex sensors, or soft/tactile wearable sensors
- (+) Experience implementing BLE GATT services, custom wireless protocols, or streaming telemetry
- (+) Familiarity with antenna constraints, RF coexistence, and wearable form-factor limitations
- (+) Experience with sensor calibration tools, factory test flows, or per-device compensation
- (+) Exposure to XR, motion capture, haptics, or human-in-the-loop sensing systems
- BS or MS in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
- Strong experience in C/C++ or Rust on embedded Linux systems
- Experience with Linux system programming: threading, IPC, scheduling, memory management
- Familiarity with real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT), low-latency tuning, or real-time userland frameworks
- Exposure to Linux build systems and distributions (Yocto, Buildroot, Debian-based systems)
- Knowledge of robotics-oriented communication protocols and interfaces (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, EtherCAT)
- Experience building high-rate sensing or control pipelines (IMUs, force sensors, encoders, cameras)
- Comfortable with debugging tools: perf, strace, ltrace, gdb, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes
- (+) Experience with ROS/ROS2, DDS, or robotics middleware
- (+) Familiarity with GPU/accelerators, ZeroMQ, or shared-memory IPC
- (+) Understanding of motor control, PID tuning, or robot kinematics
- Pursuing or completed BS/MS in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields
- Strong Rust (Embassy) and C experience in embedded systems development
- Hands-on experience bringing up microcontrollers (STM32H7, ESP32, RP2040) and writing low-level drivers
- Experience with motor control systems, BLDC/servo drivers, encoder interfaces, and actuator feedback loops
- Experience with embedded communication protocols: SPI, I2C, CAN/CAN-FD, UART, PWM, ADC, DMA
- Worked with different types of actuators (BLDC, servo, stepper, etc.)
- Familiarity with real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS, Zephyr) or bare-metal development
- Understanding of real-time control loops, sensor fusion, and timing-sensitive firmware
- Comfortable using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers, and low-level hardware tools
- (+) Experience with IMUs, tactile sensors, force sensors, or high-rate sensing pipelines
- (+) Knowledge of Linux real-time systems (PREEMPT_RT, Xenomai) or FPGA-based sensor interfaces
- (+) Familiarity with EtherCAT, distributed embedded networks, or safety-critical firmware
- (+) Experience with ROS/ROS2, HIL pipelines, or automated hardware testing
- (+) Experience building bootloaders, OTA systems, or secure firmware signing
- You've shipped — whether it's product, systems, open-source, or startups
- High agency: you don't wait to be told, you see the gap and fill it
- Strong problem-solving instincts and ownership mindset
- Pursuing a BS or MS in CS, Robotics, Engineering — or an outstanding portfolio
- You've built things on your own — projects, startups, code, robots, etc.
- Curious, self-driven, and hungry to learn fast by doing real work
- Not afraid to take ownership and solve problems hands-on
- Strong interest in building AI, robotics, or real-world systems
$159k - $196k
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