Electrical Engineer (Sensing systems/Mid-high Frequency)

Type: Full time

Location: Leuven, Belgium

Mantis Robotics is building the next generation of smart industrial robots for manufacturing and warehouse fulfillment that can work safely and seamlessly alongside people, without sacrificing productivity. Our goal is to make robotic automation accessible to anyone wanting to automate a manual task, by improving ROI by 3 to 6 times. Mantis Robotics BV (Leuven) is the Belgian R&D center of Silicon Valley based Mantis Robotics Inc, one of the fastest growing robotics startups.

We are looking for great and ambitious team players to help us revolutionize industrial automation. We seek a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to respect, transparency, honesty, integrity, fairness and customer focus.

As Electrical Engineer (Sensing Systems / Medium-High Frequency), you will play a key role in shaping our game-changing robotic sensing suite by ensuring a performant and reliable electrical design of our sensing systems. This role covers electrical architecture for medium to high frequency circuits and sensor systems.

 

Core responsibilities

  • Develop system requirements and electronic designs for medium to high frequency circuits
  • Develop electrical system requirements and electronic designs for sensor systems
  • Design requirements and test subsequent sensor system prototypes against performance metrics
  • Design system-level modeling and simulation activities of advanced RF systems
  • Design custom test electronics
  • Work with the product design and firmware teams to fully understand the Mantis technology and products
  • Lead electrical bring-up, validation and testing
  • Use field data to improve design and performance of the sensing systems
  • Work with cross-functional engineering team and research groups to determine requirements, architecture and validation methods
  • Maintain high-quality design and documentation

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in the layout of medium to high-frequency circuits with DSP, FPGA or CPU
  • 3+ years of electrical design experience of sensor systems
  • Manage priorities and support multiple projects simultaneously

Qualifications

  • Bachelors/Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience working with schematics and basic circuit / pcb design
  • Fundamental knowledge of circuit design, analog analysis and sensor physics
  • 3+ years of experience in electrical systems design, systems architecture, systems integration, or related field
  • Hands-on technical experience debugging complex systems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Understanding of hardware development and validation process

Preferred:

  • Experience in development of capacitive sensors
  • Experience in layout of FMCW radar antenna systems
  • Experience with sensor system design & characterization

Mantis Robotics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.