{"id":3491554,"url":"https://alion.io/job/noble-machines-electrical-engineer-early-career","title":"Electrical Engineer (Early Career)","company":{"id":3782494,"name":"Noble Machines","domain":"noblemachines.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/noblemachines","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sunnyvale, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":150000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":150000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"KiCad","optional":false},{"name":"OrCAD","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T23:16:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T09:35:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Electrical Engineer, Early Career (Embedded Systems & Tools)\nSunnyvale, CA (onsite) · Engineering · Full-time\nAbout Noble Machines\nNoble Machines builds multipurpose robots to support human workers in the world's toughest jobs-turning dangerous work from a necessity into a choice. Our work demands reliability, robustness, and readiness for the unexpected-on time, every time. We're assembling a mission-driven team focused on delivering real impact in heavy industry, from construction and mining to energy. If you're driven to build rugged, reliable products that solve real-world problems, we'd love to talk.\nAbout the role\nThe work at Noble Machines is a team sport. As an early-career Electrical Engineer, you'll design, build and bring up the embedded electronics and internal tools that keep our robots and our engineers moving. You'll work side by side with our senior electrical engineers and with mechanical, firmware and software engineers on a small team where everyone owns real parts of the robot.\nThis role is for someone at the start of their career who already builds hardware for fun and has done it on the job through co-ops or internships. Recent graduates are welcome. You'll start by owning smaller boards and test hardware end to end, from schematic to bring-up, and take on larger subsystems as you grow.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign schematics and multilayer PCB layouts for embedded boards, test fixtures and debug tools, with review from senior engineers.\nTake your boards from design through fabrication, assembly and bring-up, and fix what you find.\nSelect and integrate microcontrollers, sensors, power circuits and interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN and USB.\nWrite the firmware requirements a new board needs to come up, and work with the firmware team to get it running.\nDesign and build test fixtures, bring-up stations and diagnostic hardware that the wider engineering team uses every day.\nSupport motor-control and power-electronics work on robot subsystems.\nDesign, analyze and test wire harnesses for the robot and test equipment: connector and wire selection, routing with mechanical engineers, voltage-drop and current-capacity checks, and continuity and functional testing.\nDebug hardware in the lab with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies and electronic loads.\nRun validation tests, record results and help turn failures into design fixes.\nWork with PCBA vendors on quotes, assembly questions and part substitutions; keep BOMs and documentation current.\nWork closely with mechanical, firmware and software engineers to integrate your hardware into the robot.\nWhat you'll need\nA bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field, completed by your start date.\n0-3 years of full-time experience. Recent graduates are welcome.\nAt least two hardware internships or co-op terms, or equivalent hands-on work on a student engineering team.\nAt least one PCB you designed yourself (schematic and layout) and brought up, in Altium, KiCad, OrCAD or similar.\nExperience with microcontrollers and common interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART), and enough C to read and debug firmware.\nComfort in the lab with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies and soldering.\nA design portfolio: schematics, layouts, photos or write-ups of projects you built, and what you personally did on each.\nClear written communication and the habit of documenting your work.\nAbility to work onsite in Sunnyvale five days a week.\nNice to have\nHardware internships at robotics, automotive, aerospace or consumer electronics companies.\nFormula SAE, robotics, rocketry, solar car or similar student teams, especially if you owned the electrical system.\nPower electronics or motor-control projects: a motor driver, DC/DC converter or battery charger you designed.\nBuilt a test fixture or test automation in Python.\nExposure to CAN, Ethernet or USB hardware design.\nSensor integration: IMUs, encoders, current or force sensors.\nExperience taking a board through a contract manufacturer.\nCompensation and benefits\nThe expected base salary for this role in Sunnyvale, CA is $120,000 - $150,000 per year, in line with California's pay transparency law (SB 1162). Where you land in the range depends on your experience and skills. Base pay is one part of total compensation, which also includes:\nEquity\nMedical, dental and vision coverage\n401(k) retirement plan\nPaid time off and other perks\nEqual opportunity\nNoble Machines is an equal opportunity employer. We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. 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