Staff Electrical Engineer - Power System Design

Responsibilities

• Define electrical power architecture, in the 10KW range, and strategy across the product portfolio.
• This includes owning critical technology decisions affecting multiple products and generations.
• Architect and own the electrical power systems from concept through production; spanning power system, motor control, and designing to mitigate EMI.
• Drive flagship product development efforts, making system-level tradeoffs across performance, reliability, safety, cost, and timeline.
• Build and iterate on PCBs: schematic capture, layout, design reviews, bring-up, validation, and manufacturing release.
• Design for real-world deployment: power delivery, EMI/EMC, ESD, thermal management, vibration, environmental hardening, manufacturability, and serviceability.
• Design with reliability in mind: redundancy architectures, fault detection, graceful degradation, and endurance maximization.
• Develop key supplier relationships and technology partnerships for motors, sensors, batteries, and compute platforms.
• Support manufacturing bring-up and work directly with contract manufacturers.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and develop their technical leadership; recruit and evaluate engineering talent.
• Shape team technical culture, lead critical cross-functional initiatives, and build technical community across the organization.

Qualifications

• BS + 8 years of hands-on hardware experience with demonstrated system ownership and technical leadership (MS + 6 years, PhD + 3 years).
• The ability to design at a product-system level and can drive designs to the component level.
• You are a power expert across the electrical engineering domain with deep specialization in critical areas (Power system architecture, Motor controller inverter design, DC/DC regulator integration, power management, and FCC compliance).
• Expert-level knowledge of power components, power system.
• Comprehensive understanding of platform strategy, applications, and technology roadmap.
• Deep knowledge of safety-critical system design, environmental hardening, and field reliability.
• Experience taking hardware from prototype to production at scale and passing FCC/UL/TUV certifications.
• Comfortable making critical decisions under significant uncertainty.
• A clear communicator who can explain tradeoffs and decisions without ego.
• Energized by building teams and developing future technical leaders.
• Shipped products within the power range of 10kW and less.
• Power system design, power Integrity, EMI mitigation, and filter design.
• Motor inverter design and general DCDC conversion.
• PCB design, schematic capture, and layout (Altium).
• Design for manufacturability, and endurance maximization.