Embedded/Electrical Engineer

About the Company

Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we build custom hardware products to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model, advancing research into robotics and world modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead PCB and power systems design for wearable capture hardware
• Design custom carrier boards for ARM compute modules and route high-speed interfaces
• Own end-to-end design of rigid-flex and high-density boards including EMI and impedance control
• Develop power architecture, battery management systems, and power delivery networks
• Integrate multi-camera arrays and various sensors (inertial, magnetic, acoustic)
• Perform board bring-up, debugging, and signal/power integrity validation

Requirements

• Strong PCB design experience using Altium, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad
• Expertise in high-speed digital design, differential pair routing, and impedance control
• Experience with SI/PI simulation and validation
• Experience with compute module or SoM carrier boards
• Proficiency with lab debugging tools including oscilloscopes and logic analyzers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-camera array design
• High-speed SerDes routing expertise
• ARM SoC carrier board experience (Qualcomm, NXP, etc.)
• Background in wearable or body-worn products
• Knowledge of hot-swap power design and FCC/CE/RoHS compliance