Senior Electrical Engineer (Hardware) at Mimic Robotics (Zurich, Switzerland)
Mimic Robotics· Zurich, Switzerland·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Level
Senior
Job description
mimic robotics is a frontier physical AI company building the full stack of general-purpose dexterous manipulation. Founded in 2024 by ETH Zurich researchers, mimic pioneered Video-Action Models for robotics while also developing in-house dexterous hand hardware. Our growing team brings together world-class researchers working across our offices in Zurich and San Francisco.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop PCBs, flexible PCBs (FPCs), and wiring harnesses for compact robotic systems.
- Engineer electrical solutions for tight integration constraints and high-cycle applications.
- Ensure electrical designs meet high standards of reliability, durability, and manufacturability.
- Support electronics certification, testing, and validation.
- Collaborate with embedded and mechanical engineers to optimize hardware integration and ensure good signal integrity.
- Drive designs from prototyping through to high-volume production.
What We're Looking For
- 2–5+ years of industry experience in electrical hardware and/or electronics design.
- Experience designing electronics for manufacturing at scale, ideally with production volumes of 10K–1M+ units.
- Strong experience designing flexible PCBs, and/or wiring harnesses.
- Ideally, hands-on experience with dynamic flex PCBs designed for repeated bending in compact products (e.g., laptops, foldable smartphones, consumer robotics).
- Hands-on experience debugging signal integrity and interference issues on wiring harnesses / flexible PCBs.
- Familiarity with electronics certification, design validation, and reliability testing.
- Strong attention to detail, structured working style, and a commitment to robust, high-quality engineering.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary engineering environment.
Why Join Us? You'll play a key role in developing the electrical architecture of our next-generation robotic hands. Your designs will directly impact the reliability, uptime, and scalability of our robotic systems as we bring them into real-world applications.
Why work at Mimic Robotics
- Culture: “Bias toward action” – solving real problems on factory floors, not just publishing papers. Tight‑knit team of ~50 people from diverse backgrounds.
- Work environment: In‑office roles in Zurich (HQ) and San Francisco; roles include AI Research Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Embedded Systems Engineer, and Field Engineer.
- Engineering culture: Cutting‑edge AI research combined with hands‑on hardware and systems work; collaboration with top academic labs (ETH Zurich, MIT).
- Growth opportunity: Join a fast‑growing startup (166% headcount increase) at the frontier of physical AI, with direct impact on product and customer success.