SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Apptronik is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to architect the electronics and FPGA systems for Apollo's sensor bridge—a critical subsystem that aggregates multi-camera and IMU data while enabling real-time perception and safety functions for their humanoid robot.
You will own the complete lifecycle of a multi-Gbps, mixed-signal PCBA from requirements and architecture through production release. This includes FPGA device selection, RTL development (VHDL/Verilog), high-speed interface design (CSI-2, GMSL2, 10GbE), power tree architecture, and board-level validation. The role demands deep expertise in signal integrity, impedance control, timing closure, and clock-domain crossing.
Key responsibilities:
- Define requirements, select components, capture schematics, guide layout, and develop RTL for a sensor aggregation board routing across dynamic robot joints
- Design high-speed digital interfaces with proper signal integrity and EMC/ESD/thermal constraints
- Develop FPGA RTL for camera synchronization, Ethernet packetization, and deterministic multi-sensor timing
- Build and execute comprehensive validation plans; debug across hardware/RTL boundaries using lab equipment and first-principles analysis
- Manage component lifecycle, vendor relationships, and design-for-manufacturability with contract manufacturers
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate cross-functionally with perception, software, mechanical, thermal, and systems teams
- Drive technical leadership on design decisions, component roadmaps, and project execution
Required experience: strong depth in FPGA hardware for time-sensitive, high-performance applications (image processing, high-speed data acquisition, real-time networking); FPGA device architecture and RTL development; high-speed interface design (CSI-2, GMSL, SerDes, Ethernet, PCIe); timing closure and clock-domain crossing; FPGA tool flows (Vivado, Quartus, Radiant); camera/image sensor hardware; and high-speed digital design fundamentals including signal integrity and impedance-controlled routing.
