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# Embedded Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Tech Rakers
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Abstraction Layers, Booting (BIOS), Communications Protocols, Linux, Embedded Software, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Firmware, Hardware Design, Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, Interoperability, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Robot Operating System, Serial Peripheral Interface, PIC Microcontroller, Pcb Layout, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/7dc6ec8b-d4d6-44c2-89ad-f62bf4a78ec4

## About the Role

Local to Palo Alto, CA or Dearborn, MI is preferred but open to 100% remote need to be open to travel to either location.

 * Duration: 3 months initially, extendable on quarterly terms, * Senior-level experience in electrical engineering, embedded hardware, mechatronics, robotics, or a related field.

 * Demonstrated ownership of electrical systems for complex electromechanical products.

 * Strong circuit-design, schematic-capture, and PCB-development experience.

 * Experience with power conversion, distribution, switching, sequencing, monitoring, and circuit protection.

 * System-level component-selection and design-tradeoff experience.

 * Hands-on wiring-harness design experience, including manufacturing documentation and supplier coordination.

 * Practical knowledge of microcontrollers, embedded firmware interfaces, and real-time hardware behavior.

 * Experience with embedded communications protocols and physical device integration.

 * Proficiency using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, current probes, electronic loads, multimeters, or comparable laboratory equipment.

 * Experience bringing up and troubleshooting prototype electronics and integrated hardware.

 * Ability to work independently and make sound engineering decisions in a lean, fast-moving project environment.
 * Willingness to travel periodically for hands-on access to robot hardware.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Robotics, autonomous systems, advanced manufacturing, automotive, or industrial automation experience.

 * Experience developing a robot or complex machine from an early prototype or clean-sheet stage.

 * Experience designing custom embedded controllers, carrier boards, or power-management electronics.

 * Familiarity with CAN FD, EtherCAT, ROS 2, hardware-abstraction layers, and Linux-based robot compute environments.

 * Experience with bootloaders, field firmware updates, watchdogs, telemetry, diagnostics, and device-version management.

 * Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing and automated embedded validation.

 * Familiarity with IPC-2221, IPC-2152, IPC-A-610, IPC/WHMA-A-620, IEC 60204-1, or NFPA 79.

 * Experience designing for grounding, shielding, EMC, serviceability, and high-current electromechanical loads.

## Description

+ Periodic travel will be required for design reviews, prototype bring-up, hardware integration, and testing.

Responsibilities

 * Translate robot-level requirements into electrical, power, communications, embedded-controller, and wiring architectures.

 * Develop system power budgets covering continuous loads, peak loads, inrush current, conversion losses, and fault conditions.

 * Select power supplies, converters, protection devices, controllers, sensors, connectors, cables, and related components.

 * Design and review electrical schematics, PCB layouts, bills of materials, and fabrication packages.

 * Identify opportunities for custom electronics and determine when qualified commercial components are the better solution.

 * Design robot wiring harnesses, including schematics, wire lists, connector schedules, drawings, labeling, grounding, shielding, and routing requirements.

 * Coordinate with PCB fabricators, contract manufacturers, and harness suppliers through prototype and first-article builds.

 * Define communications interfaces using technologies such as CAN FD, EtherCAT, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART, or RS-485.

 * Collaborate with embedded engineers on firmware requirements for power sequencing, monitoring, diagnostics, telemetry, fault handling, bootloaders, and field updates.

 * Support ROS 2 device and hardware-abstraction integration.

 * Lead or support prototype board bring-up, robot power-up, communications bring-up, and system troubleshooting.

 * Develop bench, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, and fault-injection tests.

 * Produce editable engineering documentation, interface-control documents, test evidence, and design-decision records.
 * Transfer technical knowledge so customer engineers can reproduce, modify, and extend the delivered solution.

The project's expected disciplines include power electronics, PCB design, embedded firmware architecture, real-time control, cable and harness design, ROS 2 integration, and test engineering.