Electrical Design Engineer - Automation
Bright Machines
Other Engineering, Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 30, 2025
RETHINK MANUFACTURING
The only way to ignite change is to build the best team. At Bright Machines®, we’re innovators and experts in our craft who have joined together to create a new category of manufacturing that will help transform the industry. We believe software and data are the answer, thoughtfully applied to solve our customers’ unique challenges. Through intelligent automation, we give factories newfound flexibility, scalability, and resilience. We deliver products to meet the demands of today while building a platform to take advantage of what comes next.
Working with us means you’ll have the opportunity to make lasting, impactful changes for our company and our customers. If you’re ready to apply your exceptional skills to create the factory of the future, we’d love to speak with you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Bright Machines is on a mission to transform how electronics are made—bringing intelligence, scalability, and flexibility to the factory floor. We combine the best of automation, machine learning, and software to modernize manufacturing from the ground up.
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Electrical Design Engineer to join our team at Bright Machines. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge robotic automation systems that are transforming modern manufacturing. In this role, you’ll partner with talented colleagues across engineering and project management, gaining exposure to a wide range of disciplines while contributing directly to groundbreaking solutions for our clients.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Collaborate with project teams to define system requirements and specifications.
- Integrate BM various hardware and software components into cohesive and functional systems.
- Create PFMEA, process flow and value stream maps (where required) and work with the design team to resolve all failure mode points within the design
- Develop and execute test plans to ensure system functionality and reliability.
- Ensure through each phase gate that all design metrics are being challenged and met
- Clearly define solution requirements, own ‘the product’ of the overall automation solution (and sub systems), and drive it to success through the entire project lifecycle in partnership with program management and engineering
- Electrical requirements, design, drawings and block diagrams.
- Travel up to 10%, primarily domestically
WHAT WE WANT TO SEE
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a combination of specialized electrical engineering training
- At least 3+ years of electrical engineering experience, ideally with automation and lean engineering involvement
- Hands-on engineer with strong technical skills, execution capabilities, systems perspective, and a collaborative, process-oriented mindset
- Proficient in designing machine electrical systems using SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD, or equivalent software
- Skilled in designing AC/DC and control cabinets, selecting components, and integrating systems from concept to completion
- Familiar with industrial automation equipment, including motion drivers, sensors, barcode readers, PLCs, VFDs, servos, and robots
- Able to collaborate with third-party vendors to specify and design subsystems meeting project requirements
- Experience creating, maintaining, and releasing BOMs for production
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with suppliers, system architects, design engineers, technical program managers, and senior management
- Knowledge of UL508A & CE
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD
- Familiarity with vision systems.
- Experience working with industrial robots.
- Technical Sales or Quoting experience responding to RFQs and SOWs
- Experience developing functional safety systems and circuits for automation
- Self-motivated learner with proven adaptability and growth mindset
BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY
Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure assembly operations. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). With its new AI factory, Bright Machines addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI and the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing by building data center infrastructure at scale with higher quality and shorter time-to-market.
Bright Machines is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.