Join Way of Water, a funded field-robotics project at ETH Zurich (Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, Research D'Andrea). This is a project employee (staff) role where you will deliver engineering work for the life of the project. We build autonomous surface robots whose electronics must operate with batteries, water, EMI, and long days outdoors, while remaining serviceable. This role is suited for someone with an electronics and embedded focus who wants ownership and the opportunity to shape the electrical and device layer.
Tasks
- Own the electrical and embedded layer: from requirements and schematics to boards that boot, communicate with sensors and actuators, and survive real-world use.
- Bring systems up, write firmware or diagnostics to understand them, and leave tests for others to run.
- Collaborate with mechanical and software colleagues on mounting, connectors, grounding, timing, power budgets, and addressing failures after water or vibration exposure.
- Partner with fabricators, assemblers, and technicians to ensure designs are maintainable and not one-off solutions.
- Investigate hard faults using instruments and logs, turning field symptoms into clear electrical or firmware fixes.
Requirements
- About 0–5 years of hands-on experience after your degree; internships, thesis projects, Focus projects, and paid project work count.
- Background in electrical engineering, electronics, embedded systems, or equivalent practical experience.
- Evidence of delivering boards or electronic systems yourself — design, bring-up, debug, and handover — not only theory.
- Hands-on work is required: you bring up boards, probe faults, and ship working electronics yourself, both on the bench and in the field.
- Practical circuit judgement (analogue and digital, board-level power, grounding) and comfort with common device interfaces.
- Ability to write embedded or test software (e.g., C/C++ and a scripting language) well enough to own bring-up.
- Appetite for outdoor and on-water testing; field days are part of the job, including Lake Zürich and partner sites.
- Independent working style and documentation habits that help a small team scale.
- Experience with battery systems, robotics, environmental testing, EMI/EMC, or small production runs is welcome.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation for a funded project role, depending on experience.
- Opportunity to start with electronics and embedded ownership and grow into system integration, production test, and reliability under outdoor conditions.
- Potential opportunity to join a planned spin-off early if mutually suitable after or alongside project delivery.
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