Hardware Engineer

🔍School of Engineering, Stanford, California, United StatesNew📁Research📅10 hours ago Post Date📅109128 Requisition # Note: This position has been deemed critical by the School of Engineering Dean’s Office and is exempt from the hiring freeze. The School of Engineering Stanford Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, health care, energy, business and beyond. Our faculty and students are creative risk-takers who pursue excellence across a breadth of disciplines. Our alumni include some of the world's most successful leaders in technology and business. Our staff are critical to enabling Stanford Engineering to accomplish its mission: seeking solutions to some of the world's most urgent challenges and educating leaders who will make the world a better place through the power of engineering principles, techniques and systems. The Stanford Robotics Center (SRC) is a new effort within the university integrating the efforts of around 20 laboratories across campus that develop technology relevant to the advancement of robotics science. This is a field critical to both industry and society in the coming decades. Stanford’s unique position as both an early innovator and continuing leader in the field positions us to have major planet-wide impact as we move into this new era of human-machine cooperation and interaction. Many of the fundamental capabilities now accepted as “the” solution in the field have their origins at Stanford, and many of the world’s major corporations and research centers developing robotics technology have roots within our laboratories. Bringing these cross-campus experts together now, into an integrated facility addressing challenges so large they lie beyond the scope of any single laboratory, offers Stanford the possibility of structuring both the path and the priorities of this rapidly evolving area. The website https://src.stanford.edu provides an overview of SRC faculty membership, direction, and objectives. We seek a Hardware Engineer to help develop and maintain the robots and supporting infrastructure at the SRC. Reporting to the Executive Director, this position will communicate with faculty, staff, post-docs and students as well as our industrial affiliate partners. The Hardware Engineer will contribute to the development of OceanOne, help to integrate the 15+ robot systems in our state-of-the-art manufacturing bay and will have the opportunity to work with many other commercial and custom-built robots. Are you personable, proactive, and love working with state-of-the-art hardware? Then this position may be the right fit for you! This position is onsite, working at the Stanford main campus. In This Role, You Will Design and develop complex and specialized equipment, instruments, or systems; coordinate detailed phases of work related to responsibility for part of a major project or for an entire project of moderate scope. For example, support development of the next generation of the OceanOne robot. Design and refine bimanual robotic workcells in the Manufacturing Bay of the SRC. Develop technical and methodological solutions to complex engineering/scientific problems requiring independent analytical thinking and advanced knowledge. Make buy-or-build decisions to support automatic changing of end effectors, and design and build if necessary. Plan and refine the layout of the SRC Manufacturing Bay and other spaces to support student experiments. Develop creative new or improved equipment, materials, technologies, processes, methods, or software important to the advancement of the field. For example, develop ROS2 software interfaces to various robots in the SRC, and design ways for students to safely share these interfaces (and therefore the robotic resources). Contribute technical expertise and perform basic research and development in support of programs/projects; act as advisor/consultant to research teams on hardware. Advise all of the flagship projects in the SRC on hardware decisions: field robotics, underwater robotics, manufacturing robotics, medical robotics and domestic robotics. Contribute to portions of published articles or presentations; prepare and write reports; draft and prepare scientific papers. Education & Experience (Required) Bachelor's degree and three years of relevant experience, or combination of education and relevant experience. Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities (Required) Thorough knowledge of the principles of engineering and related natural sciences. Demonstrated project management experience