Hardware Systems Integration Engineer (Mandarin)

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Nice to Have

• Experience with robot arms, actuators or motor drives
• Firmware or embedded experience
• Experience hiring or leading engineers
• Time spent living and working in China

Responsibilities

• Evaluate new hardware: Characterize arms, actuators, sensors and other components on the bench, including torque, stiffness, backlash, thermal behavior and electrical noise
• Review suppliers' designs: Read their drawings and schematics, find the weak points, and propose changes
• Integrate and test: Design the mounts, harnesses and interfaces that put new hardware on our robots, then test until it holds up
• Work with suppliers' engineers: Spend time at their sites, agree on changes, and keep the work moving between visits
• Carry our requirements: Make sure the people building for us understand what we need and why
• Build prototypes: Run small prototype builds and bring what you learn back to the design team
• Travel: Spend roughly a third to half of your time in China

Qualifications

• Experience with robot arms, actuators or motor drives
• Firmware or embedded experience
• Experience hiring or leading engineers
• Time spent living and working in China
• Additional information
• Depth in mechanical or electrical engineering: You have designed hardware that shipped, and you can explain the design decisions you made
• Working ability in the other discipline: A mechanical engineer who can read a schematic and probe a board, or an electrical engineer who can read a drawing and reason about loads and tolerances
• Experience developing hardware with suppliers or factories in China: You have taken a product from prototype toward production with them
• Fluent Mandarin and English: You can hold a technical discussion and write a specification in both
• Strong test and measurement habits: You build test setups, take measurements, and write up what you found
• Willing to travel: Long and frequent trips are part of the job