Senior Manager, Power Electronics and Power Conversion
About Anduril
Anduril is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. Our mission is to integrate cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking into military systems quickly, not over years.
Responsibilities
Lead Programs & Architecture: Oversee power electronics and power conversion programs from concept to production. Guide the development of motor controllers, DC-DC converters, AC-DC rectifiers, and smart power distribution systems for defense platforms.
Project Management: Create, maintain, and communicate detailed product development schedules to align all assigned team members on tasks, hardware spins, and testing deadlines.
System Design: Design high-reliability, efficient, power-dense, thermally optimized, and fault-tolerant power system architectures. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define vehicle power requirements and write design verification test plans.
HIL & System Verification: Verify power system performance, efficiency, thermal margins, transient responses, and protection features (over-voltage, over-current, short-circuit) on HIL setups or flight-representative systems.
Full-Cycle PCB & LRU Design: Drive high-power PCB and Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) design. Gather requirements, design schematics, select components (like SiC/GaN, custom magnetics, bulk capacitors), supervise layout, bring-up, and system integration.
Cabling & Interconnects: Develop power distribution interconnect diagrams and define high-voltage/high-current cabling, shielding, connectors, and busbars connecting energy sources to power electronics and payloads.
Supply Chain & Vendor Collaboration: Manage successful fabrication, assembly, and Bill of Materials (BOM) for power hardware, collaborating closely with custom magnetic, power semiconductor, connector, and thermal management vendors.
Vendor Relations: Maintain familiarity with aerospace/automotive-grade power electronics component suppliers and manufacturers.
Platform Integration: Integrate power electronics (e.g., electronic speed controllers, battery management systems, power conditioning units) into UAVs, UGVs, or maritime systems.
Firmware Support: Support software and firmware teams in developing digital control loops (DSP/MCU-based converter control), state-machine logic, telemetry reporting, and power-up sequences.
Trade-Off Studies: Represent the power subsystem in platform-level, cross-disciplinary trade-off studies (such as SWaP-C, voltage level selection, and thermal dissipation architectures) to optimize overall vehicle performance and range.
Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or equivalent.
Experience: 7+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex power electronics circuits, switching power supplies (buck, boost, flyback, resonant topologies), and motor drives in a high-reliability aerospace, defense, or electric vehicle (EV) context.
Standards Expertise: Deep understanding of power quality and EMI standards, specifically MIL-STD-704 (aircraft electrical power characteristics) and MIL-STD-461 (requirements for the control of electromagnetic interference).
Test Equipment Proficiency: Competence with high-power test equipment such as high-voltage power supplies, electronic loads, power analyzers, differential probes, thermal chambers, and test automation.
EMI Mitigation: Practical experience in design for EMI mitigation, low-parasitic layouts, gate drive optimization, and high-frequency switching performance.
Communication Interfaces: Familiarity with standard interfaces used in power systems (CAN, PMBus, I2C, SPI, RS-485).
Digital Control: Familiarity with DSPs, microcontrollers, or FPGAs commonly used for digital control of power supplies (e.g., TI C2000, STM32).
EDA Tools: Proficiency with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation (EDA) design tools.
Simulation Software: Experience with power simulation tools such as PLECS, LTspice, MATLAB/Simulink, or Simplis.
Software/Coding: Knowledgeable in Python (for test automation) and C/C++ (for firmware understanding/debugging).
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.