Electrical & Embedded Systems Engineer Robotics & Autonomous Vehicle

Electrical & Embedded Systems Engineer Robotics / Autonomous Vehicles
Founding Engineering Role Autonomous Ground/Aerial Vehicle Platform
Location : Bangalore

About AB Labs

AB Labs is a stealth-mode deep-tech startup initiative currently being developed under the DivyaSree umbrella, focused

on building autonomous intelligence systems across advanced sensing, robotics, edge AI, and infrastructure-scale

operational environments.

The lab is designed to translate research-grade systems into deployable, mission-ready platforms across sectors such as

autonomous systems, defense-grade systems, space systems, industrial intelligence, and future infrastructure

operations.

The Role

You will own the electrical and embedded architecture of our autonomous ground vehicle platform starting with

COTS-based power, sensing, actuation, and vehicle-control integration at the proof-of-concept stage, and progressing

toward custom PCB design, VCU/MCU integration, wiring harnesses, communication interfaces, and production-grade

power systems as the platform matures.

You will work closely with controls, autonomy/perception, and mechanical engineering teams to ensure that power,

signals, commands, diagnostics, and safety-critical interfaces are delivered reliably across the vehicle. This includes the

interface between the autonomy computer, vehicle control unit, motor controllers, sensors, actuators, battery system,

and safety hardware.

You will own this subsystem end to end — from power architecture, embedded control hardware, communication buses,

wiring, protection, and diagnostics through bench validation and field integration. This is not a component-selection

role; it carries real design authority over how the vehicle is powered, connected, monitored, and electrically controlled

from the first prototype through to a field-ready and manufacturable system.

Core Responsibilities

1.Power System Architecture: Design and manage battery selection, power distribution, voltage regulation,

protection, charging, power budgeting, and electrical isolation across compute, sensors, actuators, and

vehicle-control electronics.

2.COTS Integration (POC Stage): Select and integrate off-the-shelf motor controllers, power boards, sensor

interfaces, communication modules, MCU/VCU hardware, and wiring for rapid prototyping.

3.Custom PCB Design (Commercialization Stage): Design custom PCBs — including power distribution boards,

sensor-interface boards, communication/interface boards, and motor-driver or control-support boards — as the

platform matures beyond COTS.

4.VCU & Embedded Architecture: Define and integrate the vehicle-control hardware architecture, including

MCU/VCU selection, real-time I/O, encoder and motor interfaces, digital/analog sensing, watchdogs, and

deterministic communication with the autonomy computer and low-level actuators.

5.Wiring & Harness Design: Develop robust, field-serviceable wiring harnesses suitable for a mobile outdoor

platform, with appropriate connectors, routing, strain relief, grounding, shielding, protection, and minimization of

single-point failure risks.

6.Sensor & Actuator Integration: Interface LiDAR, cameras, IMU, GPS/GNSS, encoders, motor controllers, and

actuators electrically, ensuring signal integrity, interface-voltage compatibility, timing, grounding, and shielding

requirements are met.

7.Vehicle Communication Interfaces: Design and integrate communication interfaces such as CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet,

UART, SPI, and I2C between the ACU, VCU, motor controllers, sensors, and peripheral devices.

8.Battery Management: Select or design battery-management systems (BMS), charging infrastructure,

current/voltage monitoring, thermal monitoring, protection logic, and safety cutoffs appropriate to the platform’s

operating envelope.

9.Electrical Safety & Emergency Isolation: Define and implement E-stop circuits, contactors, fusing, reverse-polarity

and over-current/over-voltage protection, emergency power isolation, and fail-safe shutdown paths independent of

higher-level software where required.

10.Diagnostics & Telemetry: Implement or support monitoring of voltage, current, temperature, motor-controller

status, subsystem health, electrical faults, and diagnostic signals for upstream reporting to the vehicle software

stack.

11.EMI/EMC Awareness: Apply EMI/EMC-conscious design practices from the early prototype stage, including

grounding, shielding, filtering, cable separation, and interface design, so later compliance or robustness testing

does not require major redesign.

12.Requirements & Documentation: Contribute electrical and embedded subsystem requirements, interface

definitions, power budgets, communication architecture, protection requirements, and verification criteria to the

platform’s systems-engineering documentation; maintain schematics, BOMs, wiring diagrams, and interface

documentation.

13.Bench, HIL & Field Testing: Define and execute electrical/embedded verification including power-up sequencing,

load testing, fault injection, communication integrity, protection checks, thermal testing, HIL support, and field

validation; debug integration issues alongside controls, autonomy, and mechanical teams.

14.Design for Reliability: Design for vibration, dust, moisture, thermal cycling, connector fatigue, electrical noise, and

field-serviceability — this is a mobile ground platform, not a lab bench.

15.Component Sourcing: Evaluate and select COTS components for performance, cost, availability, lifecycle risk,

integration effort, and prototype-stage supportability. Production sourcing/procurement remains outside the role.

16.Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work directly with mechanical, controls, autonomy/perception, and

embedded/VCU teams on enclosure and mounting constraints, actuator interfaces, sensor data quality,

communication timing, thermal paths, safety limits, and full-system integration.

Key Tools & Technologies

KiCad or Altium for PCB design; LTspice or similar circuit-simulation tools for power, analog, protection, and

interface-circuit validation; oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and CAN analyzers; COTS motor controllers such

as ODrive, VESC, or similar; STM32, ESP32, or comparable MCU platforms; power distribution and protection hardware;

sensor and communication interfaces including I2C, SPI, UART, CAN/CAN-FD, and Ethernet; battery chemistries such as

LiPo/Li-ion and BMS design; DC/DC conversion, contactors, fusing, grounding, and protection circuits; embedded C/C++

for driver-level bring-up and hardware integration; and familiarity with RTOS or bare-metal embedded environments for

VCU-level development.

Preferred Background

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related

field. Strong hands-on project experience in robotics competitions, drone/rover builds, EV systems, embedded

platforms, open-source hardware, or field-deployed robotic systems is valued alongside — or in place of — formal

pedigree.

Experience

2–7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent strength demonstrated through personal, academic, research, or project

work, in electrical and embedded-system design for robotics, EVs, drones, autonomous platforms, or related systems —

ideally including at least one project taken from COTS prototyping through custom electronics, VCU/MCU integration,

PCB development, or field-ready hardware.

Primary Output

A reliable, validated electrical and embedded vehicle architecture — from COTS-based POC wiring and power

distribution through VCU/MCU integration, vehicle communications, safety/protection circuits, custom PCB design,

harnessing, diagnostics, and production-track documentation — with schematics, BOMs, interface definitions, power

budgets, and test evidence that the mechanical, controls, and autonomy teams can build against.

To Apply

Please send:

1.CV / Resume 2. GitHub / Portfolio / Project Links 3. A short write-up on a system, mechanism, or project you

have personally designed or built

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We’re particularly interested in engineers who enjoy hands-on building, working in ambiguous early-stage

environments, and taking a design from the first prototype toward a field-ready system.