job_041013a: Principal Hardware Design Engineer/EE, Anki (SF, CA)

From: Kristin Burns <kristin.burns_at_stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:07:57 -0700

Title: Junior Hardware Design Engineer/EE

Job Description:

We’re a Robotics / Artificial Intelligence company currently in
stealthmode bringing the next generation of consumer robotics to
market. We are well-funded by top tier investors and rapidly growing
our talented team.

We’re looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to take the lead role in
designing low-cost and high-volume mixed-signal PCBs for our core
products. As a robotics engineer, you will get to work with motors,
batteries, microcontrollers, antennas, RF transceivers, as well as
cameras and other sensors. As a consumer hardware designer, you will
be responsible for working with an overseas CM, design contractors,
and certification labs to develop hardware with an emphasis on low
cost, DFX, safety, and high volumes. As the principal EE at a rapidly
growing startup, you will have a major influence on the product and
your own career advancement.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design low-cost portable electronics incorporating microcontrollers,
battery management, 2.4GHz transceivers, motor drivers, cameras, and
other sensors
• Maintain schematics and layout in Altium Designer Release 10
• Ensure product conforms to marketing,
engineering, and regulatory requirements
• Work closely with firmware team, sharing requirements and responsibilities
• Select components, vendors, test equipment,
with sensitivity to cost tradeoffs
• Continual design iteration to improve cost, manufacturing, test, and quality
• Lead overseas CM, design contractors, and test labs, to discover and
solve quality, cost, and yield issues, from early design stages to
mass production
• Resolve complex electrical and manufacturing problems
• Transfer designs to prototype and production manufacturers

Must-Have Qualifications:
• Direct experience taking a high volume consumer design to market
• BSEE or MSEE, plus at least 5 years’ experience designing electronics
• Mixed analog and digital design and layout experience
• Understanding of safety, ESD, EMI, and EMC compliance and certification
• Hands-on experience with bring-up and troubleshooting
• Able to work in a fast-paced startup environment without supervision

Preferred Experience:
• High-volume and cost-sensitive industry, such as toys or peripherals
• Passed EMI with unshielded plastic chassis on 2-layer PCB
• Altium Designer
• RF design, especially with 2.4GHz radios
• Lipo battery management

Benefits:
• Competitive salaries, stock options and great benefits (health,
subsidized public transportation costs, generous vacation)
• Great waterfront San Francisco office with lots of light and great
views, convenient to MUNI, Caltrain, SF Ferry Building, Transbay Bus
Terminal and BART.
• Early stage start-up where you’ll have a huge impact.
• Free catered lunches, snacks and drinks
• You get to work on innovative products and challenging problems with
some amazingly talented (and fun) people!

Company Description:
Anki, Inc. is a well-funded start-up backed by top tier investors, and
is located in San Francisco, CA. Anki is founded by three PhD's in
robotics from Carnegie Mellon that have the passion and belief that
the fundamentals of robotics and artificial intelligence will
transform the way we live, work and play. Anki is currently in
stealth-mode and will be releasing the first of its series of products
in the fall of 2013.

Interested candidates are encouraged to forward their CV to jobs_at_anki.com.

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Received on 2013-04-10 11:08:08

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