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Hardware Designer
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Description

Position at Clearpath Robotics

Position: Hardware Designer

Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Experience: 3+ Years relevant experience

Education: Degree/Diploma in Electrical

Engineering or Equivalent Experience

Division: Clearpath Robotics

About Clearpath Robotics Inc.

Clearpath Robotics’ research solutions group is a

global leader in unmanned vehicle robotics for
research and development, and provides hardware,
software, and services to enable self-driving vehicle
development, deployment, and operation. Clearpath
Robotics works with over 500 of the world’s most
innovative brands in over 40 countries, serving
markets that span mining, military, agriculture,
aerospace, and academia. Visit Clearpath Robotics
at [Link].

About the Job

We’re shipping more and more robots and seeing

new uses for our products emerge every day! We
need a Hardware Designer to help us take our
innovative designs from napkin sketches to hundreds
of pounds of precisely moving parts and facilitate
every step in between. You will be responsible for the
electronics designs of existing and new research
industrial robotics products. This will range through
the entire design process from initial concept design
and cost forecasting through to detailed design,
validation, and final release to production. Design
challenges will span from high-level system
architecture and power distribution to board layout
and field testing.

Our hardware must be many things, but reliability is

paramount. It will be your job to build systems that
can operate in whatever environment we subject
them to, all while keeping the motors turning for our
mechanical team and the 1’s and 0’s flowing properly
for our software developers.

Your primary responsibilities will be:

Leading electronics design in standard

products and custom development projects
with a cross-functional team while ensuring
that the project is on time and within budget
Developing circuits, layouts, and
qualification plans for multi-layer PCB
designs
Specifying and sourcing new board-level
and system components, communicating
with suppliers as needed
Performing system level electrical
integration and testing in robotics platforms,
including cable assembly design and
prototyping
Debugging electronics within complex
mobile robots and manipulation systems,
then driving design revisions to resolve
issues
Working with manufacturing personnel and
vendors to create PCB stack-ups and bill of
materials
Supporting the electrical systems of
standard products of various lifecycle
stages

Additional tasks may include:

Designing power distribution, battery

implementation and motor systems
Designing and building cable harnesses,
busbars, developing cable management
strategies, testing integrated systems, and
working in close collaboration with
Mechanical Designers and Software
Developers
Collaborating with our Client Success team
to support our customers
Supporting the evaluation of existing and
new suppliers
Participating in certification and compliance
reviews
Mentoring junior staff, technicians and co-
op students
Evaluating how we can apply lessons-
learned from other industries to our designs
Supporting on-site installation and
commissioning of robotics equipment at
customer facilities; occasional travel may
be required (after COVID)

About You

You want to work for a small company that thinks big

and dreams huge. You are driven, view work as
more than just a job, and are never satisfied with a
project left half-done. You want to be surrounded by
people like you; creative, fun-loving, and passionate
about their work. You are motivated by making an
impact on your workplace and you thrive on
challenging and rewarding problems. Oh, and you
have some form of higher education with the
common sense to back it up.

Required Experience/Skills:

Electronics and system level hardware

design, including PCB designs involving
embedded processors or microcontrollers
(preferably STM32)
Schematic capture, layout, component
libraries development, and bill of material
creation using an ECAD tool, preferably
Altium Designer
Knowledge of communications
architectures including ethernet, USB, CAN
bus, RS422/485 and I2C
Electronic component selection and
validation
Cable assembly design
Debugging of electronics and system level
issues using modern lab equipment
including high speed oscilloscopes, bus
analyzers, logic analyzers, etc.
Excellent technical documentation skills
Accepting responsibility for your designs in
the complete lifecycle from concept to
customer
Getting your hands dirty and working with
your designs: soldering, building cables,
building prototype systems, field testing, etc
Excellent organizational skills

Bonus points for:

Working with interdisciplinary teams to

optimize product designs
Experience with high layer count board
designs
Strong knowledge of EMC management
principles and best practice design for EMI
control, in-depth knowledge of PCB design
and PCB technology
Knowledge about electronics
manufacturing and DFM best practices
Experience working with high-power battery
systems
Mechanical / electro-mechanical design
experience or aptitude
Motor controller design and implementation
experience
Power electronics and SMPS design
experience
Experience with sensor selection and
integration (proximity, LIDAR, cameras, etc)
Experience with Altium and Solidworks
Robotics interest or experience
Industrial safety system design and FMEA
Standards and/or certification authority
experience (UL, CSA, CE, FCC, ESA and
NEC)

At Clearpath, we are committed to building and

supporting a culture of diversity, inclusion, and
accessibility. We hire the best talent regardless of
race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability,
marital status, age, veteran status, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, and expression. If you
require special accommodation to complete any
portion of the application or interview process, please
contact 1-800-301-3863.

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