Position Overview:
As a Power Electronics Engineer at Starcloud, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing advanced power electronics systems for our space-based data centers. This dynamic and challenging position demands a highly skilled and innovative individual with deep expertise in power generation and converter development. You will work on a wide range of applications, from low voltage to high kV, powering a range of distinct systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and Development:
- Lead the design, analysis, and testing of DC-DC power converters tailored for harsh space environments.
- Conduct electrical power system and sub-system level design trades and develop comprehensive requirements.
- Define and perform rigorous electrical power system verification testing and analysis.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of design, test, and production engineers to create groundbreaking power electronics hardware.
- Optimization and Analysis:
- Develop and optimize designs for power conversion systems, ensuring peak efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Address and resolve EMI/EMC challenges in power adaptors to ensure compliance with stringent regulatory standards.
- Perform advanced modeling, simulation, and testing of power electronics to validate and refine designs.
- System Integration and Support:
- Lead schematic capture and PCB layout design, ensuring robustness, manufacturability, and compliance with design specifications.
- Oversee board bring-up, execute comprehensive test campaigns, and propose effective solutions to design challenges.
- Develop efficiency, mass, and cost models for power electronics designs, exploring and implementing various topologies to enhance performance.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related STEM discipline.
- Minimum of 1 year of professional experience in power converter development.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Strong expertise in analog control and discrete logic design.
- Extensive experience in modeling, simulation, and testing of power electronics.
- Proficient in voltage and current mode control and compensation design.
- Strong understanding of DC-DC topologies, with the ability to select optimal architectures and components.
- Familiarity with failure mode effects and criticality analysis.
- Experience designing wire wound and planar inductors and transformers.
- Proficiency in power supply testing and packaging for harsh environments.
- Familiarity with spacecraft electrical power systems and knowledge of radiation effects.
- Experience designing and working with solar arrays as input power sources.
- Knowledge of lithium-ion battery handling, safety, and usage.
Compensation and Benefits:
Starcloud offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:
- Power Electronics Engineer/Level I: $100,000 - $120,000 per year
- Power Electronics Engineer/Level II: $115,000 - $150,000 per year
- Potential for stock options, discretionary bonuses, and other long-term incentives.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
- Generous paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
