Electrical Engineer

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Paradigm Robotics is an Austin, Texas‑based robotics startup building rugged, scalable robots for situational awareness in hazardous environments. We serve firefighting, emergency response, public safety, oil & gas, defense, and industrial markets. Our mission is to create a new paradigm of scalable, reliable, and useful robots for real‑world hazardous operations – providing critical solutions to the most dangerous problems out there.

We are solving problems that matter. Building robots that operate in fire, heat, debris, water, and chaos is incredibly hard, and building them to scale is even harder. That is why we focus on engineering rigor, rapid iteration, and deep user feedback. We ship real robots into real fires for real customers, which means everyone on the team takes ownership, talks to users, and builds.

We value curiosity, autonomy, and low‑ego collaboration, and we celebrate wins while owning mistakes. At the same time, we know how to have fun. From stargazing trips, go‑kart races, and off‑sites to Tulum, to goldfish pranks that turned into a full aquarium, we work hard and enjoy the ride together.

Electrical Engineer

Role Type: Full‑Time Start Spring 2026

As an Electrical Engineer, you’ll design and build the electrical backbone of our robots. You'll be responsible for analog and digital circuits, robot bus and wiring design, embedded systems, power distribution, and sensor integration. You’ll work across schematic design, PCB layout, bring‑up, embedded debug, and wiring harness development.

This role is hands‑on. You’ll be soldering boards, assembling cable harnesses, troubleshooting in the lab and field, and supporting the system through thermal, EMI, and vibration tests. You'll work closely with the mechanical and software teams and own your systems from prototype to field deployment.

We expect you to take initiative, care about details, and own the performance of your systems. You’ll have the autonomy to make high‑impact decisions and the responsibility to see them through.

• Design analog and digital circuits including power regulation, signal conditioning, and sensor interfaces
• Own PCB development, including schematic capture, layout, and bring‑up
• Work closely with mechanical and software engineers to ensure reliable integration
• Troubleshoot and debug system‑level electrical issues
• Define and maintain wiring diagrams, harnessing, grounding, and EMI/EMC strategies
• Support sensor selection and integration (thermal, gas, visual, RF, etc.)
• Run and interpret tests for thermal load, EMI, and ruggedness
• Design and fabricate cable harnesses and enclosures for field reliability
• Run SPICE simulations for analog validation, noise analysis, and circuit stability
• Contribute to design reviews and write documentation for design decisions
• Help build the internal standards and test infrastructure for future iterations
• Communicate directly with users as necessary to determine engineering direction for specific features

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years designing and testing circuit boards for embedded or electromechanical systems
• Proficiency in schematic and layout tools (e.g. Altium, KiCad, Eagle)
• Strong foundation in analog and digital circuit design
• Familiarity with microcontrollers, communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN)
• Comfortable with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and firmware‑level debugging
• Experience soldering and reworking SMD/SMT boards
• Experience building, testing, and troubleshooting wiring harnesses

• 3+ years of experience in hardware‑heavy product environments
• Designed boards that have shipped or deployed in the field
• Experience with thermal and EMI/EMC design constraints
• Familiarity with embedded C/C++ or working closely with firmware engineers
• Experience with cable/harnessing tools (Solid Works Electrical, Rapid Harness, Zuken, etc.)
• Experience in a startup or early‑stage hardware team
• Strong entrepreneurial track record being…