About the posting
“We are looking for an experienced Power Electronics Engineer to help us design and test critical hardware to power our Humanoid.”
Read the full posting on Figure's site
Seen live Oct 23, 2026; first seen Oct 22, 2026.
Pay in context
This posting lists $150,000 to $250,000 a year, a midpoint of $200,000.
The midpoint is higher than 77 percent of engineering (not software) postings in San Jose, CA that list pay.
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How long it has been open
Posted Feb 12, 2024, 984 days ago, and seen on Figure's careers page today.
At 984 days old, it is over the 49-day median.
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Figure has 91 open postings that we can see, 13 in engineering (not software); 60 percent list pay.
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Seniority
The posting mentions 4+ years.
Place and cost of living
On site in San Jose, CA; prices in CA run 11 percent above the US average.
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From Figure's posting
This is Figure's own text, as published on its job board. We last checked it on Oct 23, 2026. Apply on Figure's site. We remove a posting when the employer closes it.
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.
We are looking for an experienced Power Electronics Engineer to help us design and test critical hardware to power our Humanoid.
Responsibilities
- Develop conceptual power architectures and conduct trade studies to support key design decisions
- Design and validate PCBAs for charging products, including both the power stages and the mixed-signal control boards
- Support design reviews (schematics, layouts, etc)
- Support system integration and hardware bring-up by contributing a hands-on, builder mentality to test execution and debugging
Requirements
- Bachelor or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 4+ years of industry experience, you have designed and shipped multiple products to production
- Experience with grid-tied AC/DC (you must know how to design a PFC from scratch), DC/DC (Buck, Boost, Flyback, etc.), and resonant converters
- Hands-on experience designing mixed-signal circuits and control boards. You should deeply understand MCUs, their peripherals, and how to implement them in hardware
- Experience with high voltage applications, protection circuitry, and the common failure modes associated with power electronics designs
- Experience sizing and designing discrete power electronics (controllers, gate drivers, MOSFETs, inductors, XFRMs, caps, sensing, etc)
- Strong experience in EMI/EMC, filter design, and meeting safety/compliance standards
- Strong hardware debugging skills. You know how to attack a board or system level problem, document it, and fix it quickly
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) topologies and charging architectures
- Experience with Altium
- Experience with PCB layout, designing for power converters, and layout-level EMC mitigations
- Experience simulating power electronic circuits
- Experience working with embedded control systems and/or digital power control
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $250,000 annually.
The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.