Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and energetic professional to join our Technology & Engineering department at Rise Power Systems. In this challenging role, you will lead electrical design initiatives to facilitate global market access, brand protection and consumer safety for our portfolio of power distribution equipment.

About Rise Power Systems

Rise Power Systems is a rapidly growing critical power technology and manufacturing company headquartered in North Carolina. We are a team of experienced engineers and builders focused on solving one of the data center industry's most pressing challenges: delivering high-quality, reliable power infrastructure at scale and with certainty of supply. From enclosures and bus bar fabrication to system integration and testing, we design and build everything in-house across our owned facilities. This end-to-end control allows us to ensure consistency, quality, and speed from concept through production. We integrate system design, hardware, firmware, and rigorous validation processes to deliver resilient critical power solutions that keep data centers operating 24/7.

Benefits

Rise Power Systems offers a generous benefits package to include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, Supplemental Insurance Options, Pet Insurance
• 401k with company match
• PTO and Paid Holidays

Responsibilities

Creates technical design specifications and designs power and electronic subsystems for mission critical power protection applications
Fully supports system and hardware design and validation from cradle to grave
Owns Electronics (Embedded/PCBA) and Software initiatives
Acts as project leader and senior project member on new product development efforts
Creates and manages design documentation such as bills of materials and schematics
System level design and component selection, simulation, tolerance, variance, power dissipation (conducted and switching)

Requirements

• BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: B.S. in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) required
• 6+ years of experience in electrical design
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: M.S. in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) or equivalent with 4+ years work experience
• 10+ years of experience with power systems, electronics and/or power electronics design
• Knowledge of ECN’s, BOM’s, product documentation systems, AutoCAD, Altium, dFMEA and HALT
• Excellent lab skills and problem-solving ability
• Experience with UL, IEC, and general EMC electrical safety requirements relevant to the design of power protection products
• a plus: Solid understanding of theory and application of magnetics utilized for power conversion
• a plus: Experience with wide-bandgap (WBG) switching device knowledge, simulation and application
• a plus: Experience with control theory and embedded programming experience