Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Duckietown Robotics is an American and Swiss robotics education startup aiming to provide accessible robot autonomy education. The Senior Hardware Engineer will be responsible for designing Duckietown robots, ensuring quality and manufacturability, and leading the development of new iterations while collaborating with various teams.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the design of Duckietown robots, ensure manufacturability and quality, and lead the development of new iterations of the platform while tightly coordinating with our software development, procurement, and education teams
- Lead projects including Smart Duckiebattery upgraded design and production management; Chip-crunch back-compatible re-engineering of existing systems (where necessary); Assessment and streamlining of Duckietown design and manufacturing processes
Skills
- Competence in robotics engineering, including mechanical engineering, PCB design, and embedded systems
- Track-record in robot design, prototyping, testing, and producing quality documentation for internal and external use
- Track-record in planning and executing safety-critical projects over long periods of time
- A rigorous understanding of acceptance, testing, and validation protocols
- Great attention to detail
- (Strict) Professional English language writing, comprehension, and speaking skills: our work is done rigorously in English
- Awareness of compliance constraints in international commerce (acronyms like CE, FCC, RED, LVD, and UN38.1 should be familiar to you)
- Team and project management experience
- Intrinsic motivation and passion for stepping up hardware operations in a growing startup with global operations
- Experience with any / all amongst Python, C, ROS, and Docker
- You are fluent in Mandarin
- Work well in a loosely coupled, tightly aligned environment
Benefits
- A stock options plan. Details vary by experience and location.
- We will also give you as many duckies as you wish to receive.
- Duckietown work is done remotely.
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