Electrical Engineering Manager (Onsite)

ABOUT STANDARD BOTS

At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.

What you'll do:

We're looking for an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead the team that owns the electronics at the heart of our robots: motor controllers, power distribution, compute, camera, battery management, and sensing boards. You will be accountable for the technical output of the entire electrical engineering team: the quality, schedule, and manufacturability of every board we design and release. You'll stay hands-on in design and in the lab, report to our Head of Hardware, and partner with Mechanical, Software, Functional Safety, and Manufacturing to ship hardware that is simple, reliable, and manufacturable at scale.

📍 Location

This is an on-site role based at our Glen Cove, NY factory, where our robots are designed, built, and tested. On-site, you'll have a fully equipped electronics lab, production robots, and our manufacturing floor steps from your desk.

Responsibilities

Lead the team

- Lead, hire, and grow the electrical engineering team: set clear goals, run 1:1s and performance reviews, and build a team where strong engineers do their best work

- Delegate effectively: match work to each engineer's strengths and growth, give clear ownership, and stay close enough to catch problems early without becoming the bottleneck

- Own the technical output of the team: plan and prioritize electrical work across programs, assign owners, track schedules, and hold the quality bar so every board that leaves the team is reviewed, tested, and ready for production

- Scope and estimate electrical work with hardware leadership, flag technical and schedule risks early, and make clear trade-offs between scope, schedule, and resources

- Put in place the right amount of process to keep the team fast and the engineering sound: design reviews, the component library, the release process, design checklists, and test standards, in partnership with the team's technical leads. Enough process to ensure good outcomes, never so much that it slows the team down

- Work closely with the mechanical engineering team as one hardware team: co-own the electrical-mechanical interfaces (packaging, thermal, cabling, connectors), plan builds together, and solve integration problems side by side

- Represent electrical engineering in cross-functional decisions with Software, Functional Safety, Manufacturing, and Product, and drive those decisions to closure

- Mentor early-career engineers: teach good design and debug habits through reviews and time in the lab, and advise associate, mid-level, and senior engineers on technical and personal advancement

Stay hands-on

- Spend roughly 75% of your time on hands-on engineering for the first few months: schematic capture, PCB layout (including high-current power and high-speed digital), board bring-up, test plans, and root-cause debugging in the lab on our most critical boards. As the team grows, there will still be a lot of technical review but individual design work will drop to 25% or less over time as the team grows, however you will stay deeply involved in the technical decisions and work of the team

- Drive key architecture and component decisions through conceptual design, requirements definition, and trade studies, and advise hardware leadership on technical strategy

- Own the relationship with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors; drive DFM/DFA feedback into designs, and support production issues

Who you are

We don't require a background in robotics, but we do require deep, hands-on electronics experience and a track record of leading engineers.

We're looking for leaders who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, resourceful, and highly collaborative. We have no requi