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We combine hardware and software into a plug-and-play platform for developers, researchers and enterprises, with an open ecosystem that supports the development of physical AI.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to design the onboard controller hardware for Dexmate’s robot platforms. You will own multi-processor architectures integrating NVIDIA Jetson modules, x86 hosts, and supporting MCUs, along with the sensor interfaces, networking, synchronization, and power systems that connect them.\nThis is a hands-on board design role spanning architecture, schematics, PCB development, bring-up, validation, and production release. You will work closely with software, systems, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing engineers to turn robot requirements into reliable controller hardware.\nResponsibilities\nDefine controller hardware requirements with software and systems teams, including processing needs, sensor connectivity, interface bandwidth, synchronization, power budgets, and environmental constraints.\n\nArchitect multi-processor controller platforms integrating Jetson modules, x86 hosts, and MCUs. Define processing boundaries, inter-processor communication, peripheral connections, and dependencies across power, clock, reset, and boot domains.\n\nDesign custom carrier boards for NVIDIA Jetson modules, including AGX Thor, following platform design requirements and validating implementation on physical hardware.\n\nEvaluate compute platform options, including NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm robotics platforms, and x86 processors, against robot performance, power, thermal, packaging, and lifecycle requirements.\n\nOwn schematic design, component selection, and PCB development for controller motherboards, carrier boards, and associated interface electronics. Execute layout or provide detailed technical direction and review.\n\nDesign and validate high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, multi-gigabit Ethernet, USB, MIPI CSI-2, and camera SerDes links. Define stackups, impedance targets, routing constraints, grounding, and return paths.\n\nDesign onboard networking and hardware time synchronization between processors, cameras, and sensors, working with software engineers to verify system behavior.\n\nDevelop board-level power architectures, including DC-DC conversion, sequencing, transient response, protection, monitoring, and fault reporting.\n\nAnalyze signal and power integrity risks, correlate assumptions with bench measurements, and resolve interface instability and power-related failures.\n\nLead board bring-up with embedded software engineers, debugging boot, reset, clocking, processor communication, peripheral enumeration, and sensor connectivity.\n\nDefine and execute validation plans covering interface performance, sustained workloads, power cycling, temperature, supply variation, and fault recovery.\n\nPartner with mechanical and thermal engineers on connectors, cables, cooling, and packaging; support EMI/EMC testing and corrective actions.\n\nWork with manufacturing and test teams on DFM/DFT reviews, prototype builds, production test coverage, component substitutions, and production release.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\n5+ years of electrical hardware design experience with embedded processor systems, high-speed digital electronics, or similarly complex products, including at least one board taken through bring-up and production release.\n\nHands-on design of at least one custom NVIDIA Jetson carrier board, taken through board bring-up.\n\nDemonstrated ownership of processor-based motherboards, system-on-module carrier boards, or comparable complex multilayer PCBAs, from schematic design through validation.\n\nExperience designing hardware interfaces between processors, compute modules, MCUs, and peripherals, including power, reset, clocking, and boot dependencies.\n\nStrong schematic design skills and proficiency with Altium, Cadence, or equivalent tools, with experience defining and reviewing 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