Senior Electrical Engineer, Relay Robotics
Robotics
Office located in Campbell, CA
Autonomous service robots
Job no longer available
Autonomous service robots
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Campbell, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To measurably improve people's lives by creating and deploying beautifully simple. sophisticated, and friendly service robots that work safely, securely, and reliably in human environments.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. or M.S. in electrical engineering or computer engineering, or equivalent experience
- Hands on experience with analog and digital circuit design, layout, manufacturing, and troubleshooting
- Experience designing PCBA’s in Altium with expertise in design for thermal management, EMC, and mechanical robustness in vibration environments
- Experience with analog circuits, processors, motion control systems, serial communication hardware, sensors and system architecture
- Skilled in evaluation, testing and characterization of sensors, batteries, motors and motion control systems and other electronic components
- System level understanding of complex electro-mechanical systems
- Experience programming embedded systems in C, C++
- Communications experience including Modbus, CAN bus, UDP, RS232, RS485, RS422, SPI, I2C, TCP/IP
- Familiar with technologies including: EEPROMs, barometers, accelerometers, boot loaders, bluetooth, and other wireless radios
Desirable
- Familiarity with industrial safety systems
- Experience with building automation (e.g. elevator systems, automatic doors, security systems)
- Experience with robotics, ROS, robotic sensors and mobile robot navigation
- Working knowledge of Linux, Python, STM32/ARM Cortex, KEIL compiler
What the job involves
- Design new custom PCBAs and modify existing designs, to advance the capabilities of our robots while improving safety, reliability, serviceability and cost
- Oversee PCB manufacturing, design and build of PCBA test equipment and processes
- Resolve manufacturing issues in collaboration with supply chain personnel and suppliers, including design revisions in response to component shortages
- Work with our field support team to troubleshoot electrical and system level robotic issues both in house and at customer locations
- Develop and execute testing and characterization methods for new components for use in robotic systems
- Lead design of PCBA testers and specialized subsystem test apparatus
- Conduct failure analysis on electronic components returned from the field and share your findings with all company stakeholders
- Write instructions for production and field employees for the use, care, and support of hardware and firmware and test equipment
- (ideally) Lead the process of establishing and certifying CE Mark and ISO 13482 compliance
- Design for reliability and safety; conduct or lead design safety assessments
- Write low level drivers to interface with custom boards and other robot hardware
Our take
Relay Robotics makes robots for the hospitality industry. Specifically, it’s developed autonomous delivery robots that hotels can sign up to on a subscription basis, that use Wi-Fi to ferry around the different items and deliveries that guests often request in their rooms.
Relay Robotics (previously Savioke) has quietly become a major player in hospitality robotics in the US and its robots are used at major hotel chains like Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, and Mandarin Oriental, as well as hospitals like Dartmouth and Georgetown. In 2023, it expanded its products with the introduction of Relay2, a hotel delivery robot that has twice the capacity of earlier models.
Diversifying out to hospitals was a smart play - and it no doubt helped insulate the company a little from the rocky period that hospitality went through over recent years. Furthermore, the fact that in 2023, 87% of hotels are short-staffed means that there is more of a need for Relay than ever before. The solid foundation that Relay Robotics has built up in this sector has provided a good springboard for growth, and it is doing well expanding out even further to other areas in which this robot’s simple but effective function is useful.
Steph
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2022
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10m
Company HQ
Campbell, CA
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