Power Electronics Engineer - Defense

We are assisting a fast-growing defense technology company with the appointment of a Power Electronics Engineer to join their engineering team in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The company is developing advanced power and energy systems for demanding defense applications and is looking for an engineer who can take ownership of power electronics hardware from initial architecture and design through prototyping, testing and production.

You will work across the design and development of power conversion, energy storage and electrical power systems.

• Design and development of DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion systems
• LV and HV electrical architecture
• Inverter and power distribution design
• Selection and implementation of GaN and SiC power devices
• Circuit design, schematic capture and PCB development
• Hardware bring-up, debugging and validation
• EMI/EMC design and testing
• Protection, isolation, sensing and safety architecture
• Supporting products from prototype through qualification and production
• Working closely with mechanical, firmware and systems engineering teams

We are interested in speaking with engineers with experience across several of the following:

• Power electronics and power conversion
• High-voltage and low-voltage power systems
• GaN and/or SiC technologies
• Analog and mixed-signal circuit design
• Altium or similar PCB design tools
• Hardware testing and troubleshooting
• Design for manufacture and production

Experience with in defense, aerospace, automotive, robotics, energy storage or other high-reliability hardware environments would be particularly relevant.

MIL-STD-461 or wider military/aerospace standards experience is advantageous but not essential.