About the roleWe are an early-stage robotics company developing a mobile manipulation platform for domestic environments. The hardware is designed and built in-house.

We are looking for an Embedded Hardware Engineer to own the electronics across the platform — custom PCBs, embedded firmware, sensor integration, communication, power distribution, interconnect and safety hardware. This is a foundational engineering role with end-to-end responsibility, working closely with our mechanical and simulation engineers.

The architecture is still being defined. You will have significant influence over decisions that shape the platform for years.

Responsibilities

- Own the robot's power system end to end — battery pack and BMS selection, distribution, precharge and soft-start, protection, current sensing, charging dock interface, fault handling in firmware, and thermal budget
- Design custom PCBs from schematic capture through layout, fabrication and bring-up — sensor carriers, power distribution and safety boards
- Develop embedded firmware on STM32-class microcontrollers for sensor acquisition, safety functions and system coordination
- Specify and implement the real-time communication architecture between actuators, sensors and the compute platform
- Integrate vision, depth, position and force sensing into space-constrained assemblies
- Establish sensor timing and synchronisation across subsystems operating at different sample rates
- Design the safety hardware layer, including independent power-cutoff authority and interlocks
- Specify interconnect and harnessing for continuous-motion applications, including flex life, strain relief and routing
- Develop test rigs and automated validation for electronic subsystems
- Support EMI, thermal and reliability characterisation through integration and test
- Manage component selection,



vendor relationships and the transition from prototype to production hardware
- Maintain schematics, BOMs, firmware repositories, test records and engineering change documentation

Requirements
- BE/BTech or ME/MTech in Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Instrumentation, Mechatronics or a related discipline
- 3–4 years of professional experience in electronics hardware development — robotics, medical devices, automotive, aerospace, instrumentation or consumer hardware
- Demonstrated PCB design experience end to end in Altium, KiCad or equivalent, including boards you have personally taken through layout, fabrication and bring-up
- Embedded firmware development in C/C++ on ARM Cortex-M, with hands-on experience on STM32 (F4, G4, H7 or L4 families) or comparable platforms such as NXP i.MX RT, TI C2000 or Microchip SAM
- Working knowledge of STM32CubeMX/CubeIDE, HAL and LL drivers, or equivalent vendor toolchains, and comfort dropping to register level when required
- Practical use of peripherals — timers, PWM, ADC, DMA, interrupt priorities and clock tree configuration
- Debugging with SWD/JTAG probes (ST-Link, J-Link), alongside oscilloscopes, logic analysers and bench instrumentation
- In-depth working knowledge of at least one serial communication protocol (CAN, SPI, I²C, UART)
- Practical grounding in DC power distribution — rail design from vendor reference designs, current sensing, protection, inrush management, and layout for thermal and EMI performance
- Comfortable in a hands-on laboratory setting: assembly, rework,



instrumentation and test

Preferred
- CAN-FD and real-time distributed control systems
- FreeRTOS, Zephyr or bare-metal scheduling for deterministic control loops
- Custom bootloaders and firmware update mechanisms (DFU, CAN or OTA)
- Experience integrating battery management systems and working to lithium pack safety requirements
- Integrated actuator modules and BLDC motor interfaces
- Camera and sensor interfaces (MIPI CSI, USB3 Vision)
- Embedded Linux platforms, including NVIDIA Jetson
- EMC and EMI mitigation
- ROS 2 or micro-ROS; Python-based test automation
- Version control and CI practices applied to firmware
- Design for manufacture and assembly

Not requiredPower converter or BMS design from first principles, formal safety certification (UL / IEC / CE), functional safety qualification, or high-volume manufacturing experience. We place greater weight on engineering fundamentals and analytical depth than on domain-specific precedent.

What we offerFull ownership of a core subsystem at an early and consequential stage

Hardware you design running in deployed systems within the first year A small, technically deep team with direct access to every part of the platform

Competitive compensation and meaningful equity

Application process

- Portfolio review — a walkthrough of hardware you have designed
- Technical discussion on embedded systems, power integration and debugging methodology
- Design exercise
- Team and culture conversation

To apply, send your CV along with a brief portfolio: schematics, board photographs or project documentation for work you have personally designed and brought up. We would particularly like to see a board you designed yourself and the firmware that runs on it. We are more interested in the depth of one project than in the breadth of many. Email: [email protected]

📌 Embedded Hardware Engineer (Robotics) (Hyderabad)
🏢 SYKY
📍 Hyderabad