Senior Hardware Developer – Electronics Prototyping & EMC

About the role

Avidbots is seeking a senior hardware developer to turn open questions about the next generation of autonomous floor‑scrubbing robots into fast, working hardware. The role sits in R&D, ahead of production, and focuses on rapid prototyping, debugging, and delivering defensible recommendations.

Key responsibilities

• Turn concepts into evaluation kits, breadboards, and quick‑turn PCBs, then own end‑to‑end bring‑up and debug cycles measured in weeks.
• Design and layout multilayer schematics and PCBs across analog, digital, and power domains, including control boards, sensor interfaces, and motor‑control units.
• Develop EMC solutions from the first revision: stack‑up planning, grounding strategies, filtering, shielding, and in‑house pre‑compliance testing.
• Run trade studies and bench experiments to settle architecture decisions with measured data.
• Partner with mechanical engineers on harness routing, enclosure shielding, and chassis grounding.

Required profile

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 7+ years of hardware design experience in robotics, safety‑critical, medical, aerospace, or automotive fields.
• Proven ownership of a product through EMC certification, including chamber testing, root‑cause analysis, and remediation.
• Hands‑on lab experience assembling and reworking fine‑pitch and BGA boards, building test fixtures, and using standard instrumentation.

Required skills

• Schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout (mixed‑signal and power).
• EMC design and certification (CISPR/EN 55014, CISPR 11, IEC 61000‑4, FCC Part 15).
• Lab instrumentation: DMM, oscilloscope, function generator, power supply, spectrum analyzer, near‑field probes.
• Signal‑integrity and EMI mitigation techniques (stack‑up, filtering, shielding).
• Functional safety standards (IEC 61508, IEC 63327, IEC 60335‑2‑72) and safety‑analysis methods.
• Proficiency with Altium (or comparable ECAD) and basic SI/PI simulation.
• Embedded scripting/firmware basics (C, Python) for prototype bring‑up.