Electrical Engineer
San Francisco · Onsite · Full-time
About Bracket Bot
We believe planet earth can thrive and be alive. Robots should manufacture goods, clean roadways, tidy our rooms, build more homes, cook healthy food, and lower the cost of living. We aren’t quite there yet, robots are too expensive, too difficult to program, fragile, and unfriendly. Bracket Bot is changing that.
We believe that robots are currently in the ENIAC era and we are bringing them to the Macbook era. We believe in high performance engineering teams where everyone you work with is what you imagined Bell Labs employees to be like. Intelligent, scrappy, dedicated, kind.
At Bracket Bot, we have a few objectives. We are working to make the ideal role model of a company, one where everyone is at the top of their field, inventing new ways to solve the problems we face across mechanical, electrical, software, and machine learning. What does a company that creates entirely new ways that teams work together look like? A company that invents new materials for lighter weight actuators and structures? A company that creates and publishes new inverse kinematics algorithms for robots? A company that is thinking radically differently, and executing on another level.
In every field there are small teams who did something their peers had decided was impossible. The 10-second barrier in sprinting, or the eight engineers who left Motorola and made the 6502 for 10x lower cost than other chips at the time making the personal computer possible. SpaceX has landed the same rocket 36 times. Bracket Bot believes actuated, alive machines can be glorious, affordable, easy to use, and ubiquitous, and we are pulling that future forward.
Our products are a mirror of what we think about the world, on engineering & research, and what we think should be introduced into the world. In history, there are simply products that should exist, and only once created, are obvious in hindsight. Bracket Bot’s mission is to introduce as many of these products into the world as possible. We believe there are hundreds of these in the space of robotics. Across physical robot hardware, software and operating system; the infrastructure and distributed systems they connect to; the AI inference they run, both local and cloud, and so much more.
Our first product, Bracket Bot 1, exemplifies what a small team of highly talented people can do. At Bracket Bot, we genuinely believe 100x engineers exist, and a room full of them can create things that dozens of other companies have failed to do. We’ve brought to market a robot that is 10x lower cost than any other robot in its category, while out performing them on manipulation, autonomous navigation, speech interaction, and developer UX.
We’re backed by Fifty Years (Scott Phoenix), BoxGroup, SV Angel, Betaworks, Pace Capital, angels including Nat Friedman, Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) and others from Tesla AI, Physical Intelligence, and Markforged.
About the role
Electronics sit at the center of everything our robot does: sensing, computing, actuation, audio, and power.
We’re hiring an Electrical Engineer to join our electrical team that owns the entire electrical stack across current and next-gen robot versions; including PCB design, bring-up, debugging, and electrical architecture.
This is a high-ownership role. You’ll work closely with mechanical and robotics software to ship reliable hardware fast.
What you’ll do
Design, bring up, and iterate all robot PCBs.
Own electrical architecture across robot versions.
Debug real hardware under timeline pressure.
Collaborate tightly with mechanical, software, and machine learning
What we’re looking for
Proven PCB design experience.
Portfolio of shipped boards.
Strong systems-level thinking.
Willingness to own all electronics across the stack.
Nice to have
Firmware familiarity (C/C++).
Audio electronics exposure (MEMS mics/codecs/noise).
Brushless FOC motor control
Robotics startup or lab experience.
DFM/DFT mindset; EVT/DVT/PVT exposure.
Important notes
Founding-team role with major ownership and influence on technical architecture, product direction, and design sensibility.
Hands-on work and iteration speed are essential.
We value builders who ship over credentials.
Bracket Bot is an equal opportunity employer. We’re building a diverse team and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Skills Required
- Proven PCB design experience
- Portfolio of shipped boards
- Strong systems-level thinking
- Willingness to own all electronics across the stack
- Firmware familiarity with C or C++
- Audio electronics exposure, including MEMS microphones, codecs, or noise
- Brushless FOC motor control experience
- Robotics startup or laboratory experience
- DFM and DFT mindset
- EVT, DVT, or PVT exposure
What We Do
Bracket Bot builds low-cost, general-purpose robots and a developer-first, full-stack robotics platform spanning hardware, software, infrastructure, and machine learning. Its goal is to make robots that developers can program and deploy in days, lowering the cost and complexity of real-world robotics. The company engineers reliable, high-performance systems from mass-manufactured components and aims to make robotics accessible to a much broader community of software engineers.
