Senior Electrical Engineer, Berkshire Grey
Up to 10% travel
Office located in Bedford, MA
Autonomous fulfilment robots
Open for applications
Autonomous fulfilment robots
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Up to 10% travel
Office located in Bedford, MA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help businesses succeed with AI-enabled robotics that transforms the way they thrive, compete and win.
Role
Who you are
- The candidate must be experienced and autonomous with respect to designing, fabricating, and testing designs, as well as launching new products into production and supporting systems fielded at customer sites
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering
- Six or more years of related work experience, preferably in capital equipment, industrial automation, or robotics industries
- Experience in advancing designs from initial concept through production
- Considerable experience designing electrical control panels with voltages up to 48VDC, 480VAC 3F, and associated transformers, fusing, wiring and connectors. Including detailed power design, specification of facility power requirements, and integration with facility power
- Experience working in AutoCAD or AutoCAD Electrical
- Experience with regulatory agency (UL, NFPA, etc.) requirements and experience designing with industrial safety devices (specification and wiring)
- A detailed understanding and ability to troubleshoot analog, digital and power electronic circuits, including static, noise, ground noise, EMI/EMC and supply noise
- Experience developing and maintaining electrical designs in AutoCAD
- Skilled at circuit design and analysis including AC, DC, frequency and time domain
- Skilled with lab tools including DMM, Oscilloscope, Current Meters and Logic/Bus Analyzer
- Experience with PLCs using TIA Portal or CODESYS is preferred
- Familiar with effectively working with customers, component suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Able to set aggressive but feasible schedules/milestones for your own work, and achieve them
- Able to think strategically about risk; design, manufacturing, reliability, and mitigations thereof
- High level of technical writing proficiency (specs, test plans, reports, white papers, etc.)
What the job involves
- The Senior Electrical Engineer will work directly as a member of a new product development team, applying their expertise to deliver a novel, integrated system to solve immediate customer challenges
- They will at times work independently on pieces of systems, with a team of other electrical engineers, or with other engineering disciplines to ensure a cohesive system design
- We expect our team members to take poorly or partially understood problems and develop high-quality pragmatic solutions quickly and independently
- Internalize the notion of ownership, display the qualities of a self-starter and proactive problem solver on a cross-disciplinary product team to advance designs from conceptualization to customer acceptance
- Deeply understand existing customer operational needs and constraints to define sub-system requirements
- Design practical solutions both quickly and carefully, independently preempting issues of manufacturability and future maintenance
- Design and execute tests to disambiguate between candidate solutions, find the best approach, and convince the team of your conclusion
- Transform tested conceptual solutions into robust product designs in coordination with engineering operations, the customer and contract manufacturers
- Develop production and support documentation including bills of material (BOMs), assembly drawings, and maintenance instructions
- Hands-on prototyping, utilizing shop tools and equipment to quickly iterate ideas and solutions
- Travel to suppliers and customers as necessary to support build and installation of system
- Collaborate with suppliers, machinists, contract manufacturers, and shippers to guarantee on-time delivery and deployment for fully assembled, functional, and tested electromechanical systems to customer facilities
- Perform test and verification of prototype systems
- Perform system design analyses, including reliability, design-for-manufacture, design-for assembly, cost-takeout, etc
- Support large deployed fleets of robots leading root cause analysis and failure prevention
- Working with and leading technician teams
Our take
The boom in eCommerce over recent years has created a need for increased productivity in fulfilment, with businesses needing to scale up to remain competitive. Berkshire Grey develops and supplies AI-powered robots for warehouses and fulfilment centres, delivering intelligent, mobile robots for supply chain process automation to increase throughput, lower delivery times, and reduce costs.
Setting up robotics systems can be very costly for companies, which is why Berkshire Grey offers a Robots as a Service (RaaS) model. This enables businesses to automate their processes without a large upfront investment. By using its robots, Berkshire Grey claims, businesses can reduce picking costs by 70-80% and increase throughput by 25-35%—impressive numbers that certainly make it a strong choice for interested parties.
Despite competition from Amazon Robotics and Fetch Robotics, Berkshire Grey has carved out a niche in the growing robotics market. In 2023, the company merged with SoftBank in a $375 million go-private transaction. This merger aims to strengthen Berkshire Grey's capabilities, streamline operations, and maintain a competitive edge. The merger with SoftBank will enable the company to better serve its customers with its disruptive AI robotics technology, driving efficiency in their operations.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2020
$263m
SERIES B
Apr 2016
$13.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $276.5m
Company benefits
- Healthcare - Full medical, dental and vision. Life insurance, gym stipends and wellness programs
- Vacation - We value hard work and we like to have fun. Take time when you need it
- Recognition - Peer shout outs, achievement celebrations and leadership awards let you know you’ve made a difference
- Retirement - Stock options and generous 401(k) matching
- Nutrients - Lunch is delivered daily, a plethora of snacks, gourmet coffee, Soylent, and top-shelf beverages
Company values
- Integrity - The foundation of how we do business
- Honesty - To be truthful, fair, and straightforward
- Hard Work - To persevere, sacrifice, and do what it takes to deliver success
- Service - To our customers, company, and communities
Company HQ
Bedford, MA
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Leadership
Tom Wagner
(CEO)Tom Wagner is the founder of multiple pilot activities and serves as an advisor to small companies and universities. Prior to Berkshire Grey, Wagner had the privilege of serving as the Chief Technology Officer of iRobot. Prior to joining iRobot, Wagner served as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development agency of the US Department of Defense.
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