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title: 'Senior Electrical Engineer at stratarobot.com'
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# Senior Electrical Engineer at stratarobot.com

- **Company:** stratarobot.com
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/stratarobot-com/am9icG9zdDpjQeSJ5XlOkfNuldW6j4Vz

## Job description

Company Description Heavy infrastructure cannot be built fast enough to fulfill the promises of American reindustrialization. With labor availability tightening and the workforce aging, construction faces a multi-trillion-dollar execution gap over the next decade. Backed by Founders Fund and others, 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 immediately, building hardware, data, and commercial moats to bring end-to-end autonomy to construction.

## Role Description

We are looking for a Founding Electrical Engineer to own Strata’s electrical system development. This person will be responsible for the end-to-end design and integration of high-voltage power systems, power distribution, high-torque motors, and complex sensor suites. Crucially, this role will include designing a robust and safety critical system that is a non-negotiable for a rugged and reliable construction robot. This person will work with the mechanical and autonomy engineers to integrate across systems and meet challenging design requirements. This person will lay the foundation for how the electrical team operates — setting the standards, processes, and engineering culture that will scale with Strata.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own the full PCB development lifecycle, including component selection, schematic capture and layout, and board bring up
- Perform hardware and firmware level debugging across complex, multi-board systems
- Create and execute detailed and rigorous board and system-level test plans
- Work with mechanical, firmware, and autonomy engineers to define interfaces and drive seamless system integration
- Deliver a deployment-ready electrical system that meet the highest standards of reliability and safety

## Qualifications

- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, with 2+ years building and testing complex hardware systems
- Demonstrated technical leadership skills and experience
- Strong background in PCB design; proficient in EDA tools such as Altium Designer
- Experience in designing for reliability and safety-critical environments, with an understanding of failure modes and mitigations
- Experience working with power systems, including DC/DC and DC/AC converters - Familiarity with embedded systems design and C, with experience working with common communication protocols (Ethernet, CAN, UART, SPI)
- Experience working in an electronics lab, using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters; and experience with board bring-up and debugging complex systems

## 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. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/stratarobot-com)

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