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Korea is the center of gravity for our early commercial strategy, anchored by relationships with the world’s leading shipbuilders and steelmakers. Our work spans both the robot platform itself and the systems, partners, and playbooks required to deploy it at scale.\nWhy Join Persona AI?\nWe offer competitive compensation, a performance-based bonus, 99% employer covered medical benefits, early-stage equity, competitive PTO, and a company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd.\n\nYou’ll shape technology that’s redefining the possibilities of robotics and human interaction.\n\nWork alongside passionate teammates who value creativity, and continuous learning.\n\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for an Electrical Engineer to help design our most space and performance-constrained electronics. We are looking for someone who can start from an idea, help devise an architecture, draw a clean schematic, create libraries when needed, lay out the PCB, send it to fab, and help bring it up when it gets delivered. That loop often can be closed in less than one week for simple designs, so speed is a must. You should be comfortable with uncertainty, confident enough in your fundamentals to know what rules can be broken, and driven to find the answer faster. You'll get to help make the impossible package possible: chip-scale silicon, blind/buried vias, board-to-board stacks, and rigid-flex assemblies operating in tight electromechanical envelopes alongside motors, sensors, mixed signals, and power electronics.\nIf you've helped ship high-density electronics at scale and now want to apply that craft to robots that walk, manipulate, and reason about the physical world, we'd love to hear from you.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nHelp design and support the hardware architecture of tightly integrated PCBAs and rigid-flex circuits for actuators, sensors, perception, and compute subsystems across the robot.\n\nPush the limits of density: support component selection, stackups, and layout for power management and motor control, sensors, and communication with chip-scale packages (BGA, WLCSP, 0201/01005 passives), blind/buried vias, HDI, and board-to-board interconnects.\n\nCo-design with mechanical engineers to fit electronics into volumes that don't yet 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