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# System Integration Engineer

- **Company:** ROBOTIC MINDS LLC
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Communications Protocols, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Firmware, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Data Logging, System-level Testing
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d362aaa34820c2f9

## About the Role

* Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
 * 2+ years in systems engineering or a cross-disciplinary hardware role involving complex electromechanical or robotic products
 * Strong hardware and software fundamentals - able to bridge electrical schematics, embedded communication protocols, and firmware architecture; comfortable with a scope and multimeter during bring-up
 * Hands-on experience debugging complex subsystems involving networked microprocessors and software-controlled electromechanical devices - comfortable reading, modifying, and recompiling C/C++ firmware/software yourself to add debug logging, instrument code paths, and iterate on a fix, not just reading code to hand off to firmware engineers
 * Experience defining requirements from high-level system behaviors and making them measurable and testable; able to write scripts or tooling to improve bring-up and validation efficiency
 * Proficient in data analysis and visualization - able to instrument systems, extract signal from noisy hardware data, and communicate findings clearly across mechanical, electrical, and software teams
 * You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part, * Background in robotics, EV powertrains, drones, or other dense electromechanical systems
 * Exposure to manufacturing self-test design or service diagnostics
 * Experience with functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) or automotive/robotics validation processes
 * Experience in failure modes analysis, HARA, and FTA

## Description

* Contribute to architectural decisions for new robot subsystems - communication protocols, control strategies, and hardware-software partitioning - alongside firmware/controls, mechanical, and electrical teams
 * Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, safety, and firmware teams to define interfaces and validation strategies early, and lead calibration and tuning efforts to hit performance targets
 * Define software requirements from high-level system requirements, using first-principles analysis and hardware/model-based testing - from top-level robot performance targets down to subsystem budgets and interfaces
 * Prototype and characterize components and full systems; design early builds to de-risk new technologies before committing to production architecture
 * Debug hardware-software interactions hands-on during design, launch, and field deployment - pulling and analyzing logs, adding debug instrumentation/tracing to firmware and software, and recompiling and re-flashing to isolate root cause - and surface nth-order impacts of electrical, software, or process changes before they become problems
 * Analyze failure modes, complete DFMEAs/HARAs, and define system-level test plans from bench testing through field deployment
 * Drive readiness reviews, sign-off, and post-launch monitoring across firmware, hardware, controls, reliability, and manufacturing stakeholders


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