Staff Electrical Engineer, Power Electronics
Mainspring Energy
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Menlo Park • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $157,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design custom power electronics hardware that enables key functions of our Linear Generator
- Bring-up, validate, and qualify your power electronics designs
- Troubleshoot complex hardware issues that arise in the test lab, production floor, and fielded units
- Collaborate with the new production introduction team and external suppliers to improve designs for manufacturability and testability
- Partner with reliability engineers to further drive up electrical hardware reliability
- Serve as an expert on the hardware systems that you own
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in Electrical Engineering
- 8 years of experience developing power electronics technologies
- Excellent electronics design fundamentals; ability to take concept level design details, select components, and produce a schematic
- Examples of taking ownership of a power electronics design project
- Circuit board design experience
- Familiar with schematic capture and power converter circuit modeling/simulation tools
- Knowledge of power electronics control theory
- Proficiency with EE tools (Oscilloscopes, Power Analyzers, Network Analyzers, Signal Generators etc.)
- Experience with power semiconductor selection, gate drive, and protection circuit design
- Proven ability to work independently on an electronics design project
- Clear verbal and written communication skills
- A passion for hands-on hardware development
- A “collaborate-first” mindset and have successfully communicated across a range of teams and personalities
- Experience designing high voltage (480VAC or 800VDC range) systems
- Experience designing kW-level power electronics
- Experience in the full hardware development life cycle, from requirements development to manufacturing support
- Experience working at a startup or rapid development environment
- Experience with Altium
Benefits
- pre-IPO stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
power electronics designcircuit board designschematic capturepower converter circuit modelingpower electronics control theorypower semiconductor selectiongate drive designprotection circuit designhardware development life cyclekW-level power electronics
Soft Skills
clear verbal communicationclear written communicationcollaborate-first mindsetownership of projectsindependent workpassion for hardware development