Electrical Design Engineer, Tactile Sensing

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$111,944 U.S. median for this role

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+13.7% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Electrical Design Engineer, Tactile Sensing Palo Alto, California, United States Responsibilities - Own the tactile sensor stack electrically - from transducer interface and analog front-end through signal conditioning, digitization, and delivery of clean, time-stamped data to downstream compute. - Design low-noise analog front-ends for high-channel-count tactile arrays across one or more modalities (capacitive, resistive/piezoresistive, magnetic, optical, piezoelectric, MEMS/barometric), including amplification, filtering, ADC selection, and calibration strategy. - Architect multiplexing and scanning schemes for dense taxel arrays, including crosstalk mitigation, drive/sense electrode design, and trade-offs between spatial resolution, sample rate, and power. - Design high-density flex, rigid-flex, and ultra-compact PCBs for volume-constrained, cable-routed assemblies - fingertips, palms, gripper surfaces, and data collection gloves. - Deliver deterministic, tightly synchronized sampling: design clocking, triggering, and timestamping architectures that meet sub-millisecond synchronization requirements with the robot's real-time actuator bus and ML data collection pipelines. - Ensure EMI/ESD robustness - shielding, grounding, and filtering strategies for sensors operating millimeters from motors and power electronics in factory environments. - Characterize sensor electrical performance - noise floor, SNR, bandwidth, drift, hysteresis, temperature sensitivity - and build the electrical side of characterization rigs alongside mechanical ground-truth fixtures. - Bring up boards hands-on: schematic capture, layout review, first-article debug, firmware-adjacent driver and calibration work in collaboration with the firmware team. - Contribute to DFM/DFA so sensor electronics scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production; work with PCB fabricators, assembly houses, and contract manufacturers to keep parts on spec and on time. - Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, firmware, controls, and

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