You own how our robots’ electrical architecture is physically realized: harnesses, connectors, cable sizing, board interfaces, routing, and every connection point. Engineering designs the circuits. You make sure the boards, cables, and connections come together into something a technician can build in an hour, a field tech can repair at a customer site, and a robot can carry through years of motion, vibration, and warehouse floors.
Where we are today: a robot that works, with an electrical package that was integrated rather than designed. Some harnesses are still built on the robot instead of released as controlled assemblies. Power and signal share bundles and glands. Cables cross fan intakes and rest on the floor pan. Connectors that should latch don’t. The arm dress pack is our biggest reliability risk. Our PDU is the one example of what a designed electrical component looks like on the program — your job is to make everything else look like that.
The role works in two phases. While a robot is in development you’re embedded with Hardware Engineering: building the cables and harnesses, meticulous about the CAD and the runs, in the board layout review asking “can we move this connector to that edge so the harness terminates here” and “give me a keyed part so it can’t go in backwards” — you don’t design the circuit, but you shape where it meets the rest of the robot. You select connectors and components with the EEs and own board and part ordering so engineering is never waiting. When the robot goes through NPI or an ECO you move with it into Manufacturing: releasing drawings, supporting ordering, training technicians, and clearing electrical issues on the floor. Inline with the design as it happens, not a review gate after it’s done.
You’ll spend most of your days with the hardware team, so fit with that group matters as much as the skill set. Reports to the Head of Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a dotted line to Hardware Engineering.