--- title: 'Electrical Engineer Intern (Spring 2027) at stratarobot.com' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/electrical-engineer-intern-spring-2027-stratarobot-com-sunnyvale-s405r9aqqysp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-18' --- # Electrical Engineer Intern (Spring 2027) at stratarobot.com - **Company:** stratarobot.com - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/stratarobot-com/am9icG9zdDria2I0yTxL61RVcanGsWtl ## Job description ## About Strata Heavy infrastructure cannot be built fast enough to fulfill the promises of reindustrialization. With labor availability tightening and the workforce aging, construction faces a multi-trillion-dollar execution gap over the next decade. We’re building a construction robotics platform designed for outdoor environments, heavy payloads, and immediate deployment. We’re partnering with the largest heavy construction firms to put robots on sites for material handling now, building hardware, data, and commercial moats to bring end-to-end autonomy to construction. Robots are folding clothes and washing dishes, while dangerous and heavy work in remote environments remain manual. Furthermore, construction firms cannot physically fulfill their contracts — they should not have to choose between building a hospital or a data center. Join us to build a robotics platform that delivers real value immediately, saving lives and bringing abundance to construction. Backed by a $5.2 million seed round led by Founders Fund, the team is developing robots for outdoor, high-payload job site work with a focus on immediate deployment and autonomy that delivers value immediately. We’re partnering with the largest heavy construction firms to put robots on sites to handle material now, building hardware, data, and commercial moats to bring end-to-end autonomy to construction. Who We're Looking For We are looking for an Electrical Engineering Intern to support in bringing up our V1's electrical system. This person will help drive board bring-up, debugging, and validation across power electronics and mixed-signal subsystems, working hands-on with real hardware in a fast-moving development environment. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to get deep into board-level debugging and firmware on a robot that has to work reliably in demanding field conditions. ## Key Responsibilities - Support board bring-up for V1, including design, functional verification, and debugging across power electronics and mixed-signal boards. - Help debug hardware and firmware issues across multi-board systems, using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and multimeters. - Assist in developing and executing board- and system-level test plans to validate performance against design requirements. - Support schematic capture, layout review, and component selection under the guidance of the founding electrical engineer. - Characterize power electronics circuits (DC/DC and DC/AC converters) for performance, efficiency, and reliability. - Help troubleshoot integration issues between electrical, mechanical, and firmware systems. - Document test results, debug findings, and design iterations to support engineering rigor as the electrical team scales. ## What You Bring - Pursuing a BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field. - Hands-on experience with PCB design, familiar with EDA tools such as Altium Designer. - Experience with board bring-up, debugging, and validation of hardware systems. - Background in power electronics and mixed-signal design. - Comfort working in an electronics lab, using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and similar tools. - Familiarity with embedded systems and common communication protocols (Ethernet, CAN, UART, SPI) is a plus. - Experience in build-focused teams such as Formula SAE, rocket team, CubeSat, or similar is strongly preferred. ## About stratarobot.com ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Strata Robotics is building an autonomous robotics platform for outdoor construction environments and heavy payloads, designed to address labor shortages and the execution gap in infrastructure development. - **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage, funding not publicly disclosed) - **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available (recent startup, likely 2024–2025) - **Founders**: Eric Zhou (CEO and Founder), Alex Mason (CTO and Co-founder) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Construction robotics / autonomous heavy equipment - Target customers: Large heavy construction firms, infrastructure and energy operators (B2B, enterprise) - Mission: To bring end-to-end autonomy to construction, enabling faster and safer infrastructure development despite a shrinking workforce. ## Products & Services - **Strata Robotics Platform**: An integrated system of rugged mobility robots, fleet intelligence software, and foundation model integration. The platform is designed for outdoor job sites, handling heavy payloads (multi-ton) with autonomous planning and real-time oversight. The current focus is a V1 material handling robot. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; headcount of ~3 employees on LinkedIn (with 50% monthly growth) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partnering with "the largest heavy construction firms" (names not specified); talent sourced from MIT LIDS and SpaceX - **Growth Signals**: Early-stage but actively hiring for founding roles (Autonomy Engineer, Field Deployment Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Head of Business Development). Moving from development to active job site pilots with EPC partners. ## Competitive Advantages - Purpose-built for outdoor, unstructured environments (not humanoids or indoor robots) - Heavy payload capacity (multi-ton) for real construction tasks - Immediate deployment focus – partnering with firms to put robots on sites now, building data and commercial moats - Hardware, data, and systems designed for end-to-end autonomy, not just single-task robots ## Strategic Focus - Iterating from V1 material handling robot toward full autonomy across construction, infrastructure, and energy operations - Deepening partnerships with heavy construction firms to scale real-world deployments - Building a foundation model layer trained on real job site data to accelerate learning and adaptability ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: 0→1 environment with direct influence on robot architecture and field deployment. Engineers own subsystems end-to-end (from hand calcs to vendor sourcing to test). - **Work Policy**: Hybrid or in-office based in Sunnyvale, CA (roles listed as "In-Office" or "Hybrid"). - **Notable Perks**: Work directly with founding team; front-row seat to deploying robotics on real job sites; hands-on with heavy equipment, hydraulics, and outdoor testing. - **Engineering Culture**: First-principles design, real-world survival testing, and a focus on practical, scalable hardware over hype. ## Sources 1. [stratarobot.com](https://www.stratarobot.com/) 2. [stratarobot.com/careers](https://www.stratarobot.com/careers) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/strata-robotics) 4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/strata-robotics) 5. 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