Electrical Engineer (Hiring at all Levels)
Company Overview
Reflex Robotics is building affordable ($10k) wheeled humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics.
We envision a future where intelligent robots are doing all kinds of boring work that people hate doing-loading chicken nuggets into Costco boxes, lifting forty pound bags of dog food at Petco stores, and cleaning up cranberry juice spills in your apartment.
We are a four-year-old startup backed by Khosla Ventures, with $100M+/year of revenue lined up pending successful pilots with e-commerce warehouses.
How Does It Work?
Our robots are designed and built entirely in-house by an engineering team that include alumni from Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, Amazon Robotics, Intel, Figure, ASML and more. Reflex robots are high-performance, low-inertia, and optimized for low-cost manufacturing.
We’ve built the best real-time teleoperation system in the world, allowing a remote operator in South America to “play a video game” to control our robots at human-level speeds. This has allowed us to already ship robots with positive unit economics, and enables us to create a powerful human-intervention + RL product feedback loop.
Our system allows us to collect high-quality demonstrations at scale, giving us the proprietary data engine needed to train increasingly capable AI systems. We’re on track to build the largest robotics dataset in the world, which will serve as an important long-term advantage.
Key Company Beliefs
High-quality, proprietary robotics data is the next foundation for generational AI companies (like Tesla FSD and ChatGPT).
Being nerd-sniped by maximizing an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers’ biggest pain points.
What We’re Looking For
We develop custom servo actuators, computer, networking, cameras, and other sensors for our robots. These systems must be performant, reliable, cost-effective, and integrated with mechanical and software requirements.
We are looking for versatile electrical engineers to design, debug, test, and deploy these systems. This is a small team with high ownership, high equity, and the chance to shape the product from the ground up.
We love to see engineers who have built something they are proud of, whether it's a side project, an open-source contribution, or a product feature that shipped to real users.
Required Qualifications
Understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals
Strong PCB design experience (project portfolios encouraged!)
Strong board bring-up, test, and debug skills: comfortable with a scope, a power supply, and a problem
Understanding of system-level tradeoffs: how your board interacts with firmware, mechanical constraints like cable routing and connectors, and cost
Ability to work independently and make good design decisions based on project requirements
Good communication skills
BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or related field
Bonus Qualifications
Experience with motor control and power electronics designs
Robotics experience
High-speed design (Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI)
RF design
Proficiency in Altium for schematic cpature and PCB layout
Experience taking designs from prototype through production: DFM, supply chain considerations, and test coverage
Cross-disciplinary experience: firmware (C, RTOS), mechanical design
Compensation: $140,000-$250,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.
Come Join Us
Reflex is de-risked enough to see the hazy outlines of success, but still small enough that there’s enormous upside for grabs. This is a rare opportunity to help build a flagship robotics company from the ground up and to do work that will truly matter, reshaping what people believe is possible in robotics.
We love to see the things you’ve worked on. Have a portfolio or a project that people tend to say 'wait, you built that?' when you describe what you worked on? Share it. We’re looking for people who push past the status quo, are passionate at work and in their own time, we’re looking for people who want to win.