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Senior Electrical Engineer

Cosmic Robotics · San Francisco · United States

Full timeElectrical Engineer

Posted: 8/19/2026 · Last checked: 10/22/2026

Job description

Quoted in full from Cosmic Robotics's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.

Senior Electrical Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (full time, in-person)

Company Overview

Our mission is to accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure on Earth while pioneering technologies to enable humanity to build beyond. Starting with Cosmic-1 – a system that installs solar panels 10x faster than today’s methods, helping us transition to a clean energy future and laying the groundwork for the future of autonomous construction.

The Role

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will own a critical Cosmic-1 subsystem and lead development from concept to deployment. As a core member of the team, you will help define the era of autonomous construction.

This is a rare opportunity to:

  • Work on hard, meaningful problems that impact the future of infrastructure and energy.

  • Collaborate with a world-class team from NASA, SpaceX, Google, Built Robotics, and others.

  • Rapidly grow, learn, and lead within a quickly scaling company.

Responsibilities

  • Own hardware components and systems such as the high voltage system, low voltage system, custom HV batteries, embedded systems, PCB assemblies, and harnesses

  • Full product lifecycle ownership from requirements collection, trade studies, preliminary and detailed design, development, and overseeing manufacturing, integration, testing, and customer delivery

  • Work with manufacturing, mechanical, software, and product engineers to develop innovative new solutions to complex interdisciplinary problems

  • Work with vendors and suppliers to find creative solutions to tight deadlines

  • Set milestones, plan roadmaps, and deliver on ambitious timelines

  • Recruit, mentor, and build a world-class engineering organization

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional engineering experience

  • Excellent first-principles understanding of analog and digital circuit design and circuit analysis and simulation

  • Expert electrical design skills using software such as Altium designer

  • Strong programming skills in Python or C++

  • Superb failure analysis and electrical system troubleshooting skills

  • Experience designing or developing high voltage vehicle electrical systems including familiarity with high voltage batteries and power electronics as well as HV safety standards and components

  • Excellent communication and project management skills

  • Thrive in fast-paced environments and push boundaries to meet deadlines

Bonus

  • 5+ years of professional engineering experience in electrical design or development

  • Management and recruiting experience

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