Senior Staff Power Electronics Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead next-generation power conversion system design for Solid State Transformer systems, including topology optimization, device selection, magnetics, and controls.
• Own design execution and timelines while leveraging and mentoring a team of electrical engineers.
• Develop frameworks for work breakdown, requirements decomposition, and design acceptance criteria.
• Drive best-in-class solutions that balance efficiency, cost, safety, reliability, and customer use-case needs.
• Lead simulation and optimization of power conversion approaches, ranking alternatives based on customer impact and key figures of merit.
• Collaborate with mechanical and electrical teams to advance power electronics packaging solutions.
• Own EMC and compliance considerations by integrating them into architecture, requirements, and risk management processes.
• Lead advanced controls development to unlock optimized performance for our products.
• Define and track power electronics technical requirements throughout program lifecycles.
• Lead complex root-cause investigations across hardware, firmware, sensing, and protection domains.

Qualifications

• Technical degree or equivalent experience in power electronics design and architecture.
• 8+ years of experience in power conversion design, including at least 2 years of technical leadership mentoring 3+ engineers.
• Proven track record of delivering industry-leading power conversion solutions, including at least one shipped high-volume PCBA.
• Demonstrated expertise in simulation-driven design and figure-of-merit evaluation across topology, controls, devices, and magnetics.
• Strong knowledge of EMC, high-voltage compliance, and functional safety.
• Extensive experience collaborating with Sales, Design Engineering, Supply Chain, Applications, and Compliance teams to deliver harmonized customer solutions.
• Evidence of delivering both strategic and tactical power electronics solutions.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward informed action and the ability to lead new initiatives with limited resources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10%, including internationally

Pay Disclosure & Benefits

Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

Equal Employment Opportunity

Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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