Electrical & Embedded Systems Engineer Robotics / Autonomous Vehicles

Founding Engineering Role Autonomous Ground/Aerial Vehicle Platform

Location : Bangalore

About AB Labs

AB Labs is a stealth-mode deep-tech startup initiative currently being developed under the DivyaSree umbrella, focused on building autonomous intelligence systems across advanced sensing, robotics, edge AI, and infrastructure-scale operational environments.

The lab is designed to translate research-grade systems into deployable, mission-ready platforms across sectors such as autonomous systems, defense-grade systems, space systems, industrial intelligence, and future infrastructure operations.

The Role

You will own the electrical and embedded architecture of our autonomous ground vehicle platform starting with

COTS-based power, sensing, actuation, and vehicle-control integration at the proof-of-concept stage, and progressing toward custom PCB design, VCU/MCU integration, wiring harnesses, communication interfaces, and production-grade power systems as the platform matures.

You will work closely with controls, autonomy/perception, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure that power,

signals, commands, diagnostics, and safety-critical interfaces are delivered reliably across the vehicle. This includes the interface between the autonomy computer, vehicle control unit, motor controllers, sensors, actuators, battery system,

and safety hardware.

You will own this subsystem end to end — from power architecture, embedded control hardware, communication buses,

wiring, protection, and diagnostics through bench validation and field integration. This is not a component-selection role; it carries real design authority over how the vehicle is powered, connected, monitored, and electrically controlled from the first prototype through to a field-ready and manufacturable system.

Core Responsibilities

1.Power System Architecture: Design and manage battery selection, power distribution, voltage regulation,

protection, charging, power budgeting, and electrical isolation across compute, sensors, actuators, and vehicle-control electronics.

2.COTS Integration (POC Stage): Select and integrate off-the-shelf motor controllers, power boards, sensor interfaces, communication modules, MCU/VCU hardware, and wiring for rapid prototyping.

3.Custom PCB Design (Commercialization Stage): Design custom PCBs — including power distribution boards,

sensor-interface boards, communication/interface boards, and motor-driver or control-support boards — as the platform matures beyond COTS.

4.VCU & Embedded Architecture: Define and integrate the vehicle-control hardware architecture, including

MCU/VCU selection, real-time I/O, encoder and motor interfaces, digital/analog sensing, watchdogs, and deterministic communication with the autonomy computer and low-level actuators.

5.Wiring & Harness Design: Develop robust,



field-serviceable wiring harnesses suitable for a mobile outdoor platform, with appropriate connectors, routing, strain relief, grounding, shielding, protection, and minimization of single-point failure risks.

6.Sensor & Actuator Integration: Interface LiDAR, cameras, IMU, GPS/GNSS, encoders, motor controllers, and actuators electrically, ensuring signal integrity, interface-voltage compatibility, timing, grounding, and shielding requirements are met.

7.Vehicle Communication Interfaces: Design and integrate communication interfaces such as CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet,

UART, SPI, and I2C between the ACU, VCU, motor controllers, sensors, and peripheral devices.

8.Battery Management: Select or design battery-management systems (BMS), charging infrastructure,

current/voltage monitoring, thermal monitoring, protection logic, and safety cutoffs appropriate to the platform’s operating envelope.

9.Electrical Safety & Emergency Isolation: Define and implement E-stop circuits, contactors, fusing, reverse-polarity and over-current/over-voltage protection, emergency power isolation, and fail-secure shutdown paths independent of higher-level software where required.

10.Diagnostics & Telemetry: Implement or support monitoring of voltage, current, temperature, motor-controller status, subsystem health, electrical faults, and diagnostic signals for upstream reporting to the vehicle software stack.

11.EMI/EMC Awareness: Apply EMI/EMC-conscious design practices from the early prototype stage, including grounding, shielding, filtering, cable separation, and interface design, so later compliance or robustness testing does not require major redesign.

12.Requirements & Documentation: Contribute electrical and embedded subsystem requirements, interface definitions, power budgets, communication architecture, protection requirements, and verification criteria to the platform’s systems-engineering documentation; maintain schematics, BOMs, wiring diagrams, and interface documentation.

13.Bench, HIL & Field Testing: Define and execute electrical/embedded verification including power-up sequencing,

load testing, fault injection, communication integrity, protection checks, thermal testing, HIL support, and field validation; debug integration issues alongside controls, autonomy, and mechanical teams.

14.Design for Reliability: Design for vibration, dust, moisture, thermal cycling, connector fatigue, electrical noise, and field-serviceability — this is a mobile ground platform, not a lab bench.

15.Component Sourcing: Evaluate and select COTS components for performance, cost,



availability, lifecycle risk,

integration effort, and prototype-stage supportability. Production sourcing/procurement remains outside the role.

16.Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work directly with mechanical, controls, autonomy/perception, and embedded/VCU teams on enclosure and mounting constraints, actuator interfaces, sensor data quality,

communication timing, thermal paths, safety limits, and full-system integration.

Key Tools & Technologies

KiCad or Altium for PCB design; LTspice or similar circuit-simulation tools for power, analog, protection, and interface-circuit validation; oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and CAN analyzers; COTS motor controllers such as ODrive, VESC, or similar; STM32, ESP32, or comparable MCU platforms; power distribution and protection hardware;

sensor and communication interfaces including I2C, SPI, UART, CAN/CAN-FD, and Ethernet; battery chemistries such as

LiPo/Li-ion and BMS design; DC/DC conversion, contactors, fusing, grounding, and protection circuits; embedded C/C for driver-level bring-up and hardware integration; and familiarity with RTOS or bare-metal embedded environments for

VCU-level development.

Preferred Background

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field. Strong hands-on project experience in robotics competitions, drone/rover builds, EV systems, embedded platforms, open-source hardware, or field-deployed robotic systems is valued alongside — or in place of — formal pedigree.

Experience

2–7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent strength demonstrated through personal, academic, research, or project work, in electrical and embedded-system design for robotics, EVs, drones, autonomous platforms, or related systems —

ideally including at least one project taken from COTS prototyping through custom electronics, VCU/MCU integration,

PCB development, or field-ready hardware.

Primary Output A reliable, validated electrical and embedded vehicle architecture — from COTS-based POC wiring and power distribution through VCU/MCU integration, vehicle communications, safety/protection circuits, custom PCB design,

harnessing, diagnostics, and production-track documentation — with schematics, BOMs, interface definitions, power budgets, and test evidence that the mechanical, controls, and autonomy teams can build against.

To Apply

Please send

1.CV / Resume 2. GitHub / Portfolio / Project Links 3. A short write-up on a system, mechanism, or project you have personally designed or built

Send to: [email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected]

We’re particularly interested in engineers who enjoy hands-on building, working in ambiguous early-stage environments, and taking a design from the first prototype toward a field-ready system.

📌 Electrical & Embedded Systems Engineer Robotics & Autonomous Vehicle (Bengaluru)
🏢 DivyaSree
📍 Bengaluru