Senior Power Electronics Engineer

7 days ago


El Segundo, California, United States CesiumAstro Full time
Job Title: Senior Power Electronics Engineer

CesiumAstro is seeking a highly skilled Senior Power Electronics Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing and developing leading-edge power electronics for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a talented Senior Power Electronics Engineer to own the design phase of circuits or boards, including trade studies, component selection, and detailed design. The successful candidate will have experience with analysis and simulation tools such as SPICE, LTSPICE, SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, Simulink, MATLAB, or MathCAD. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

Responsibilities:
  • Own end-to-end design of power converters, and power management and control circuits, from concept and architecture definition to schematic, printed circuit board (PCB) design, testing, qualification, production transition and production support.
  • Perform detailed and complete schematic design for low-to medium complexity power electronics designs, ranging from single power converters to multi-output power supply modules and power management circuitry.
  • Perform detailed PCB layout in Altium Designer independently or in collaboration with a PCB Drafter.
  • Perform modeling and analysis of analog and power electronics designs including worst-case circuit analysis, stress analysis, small signal and stability analysis, power loss and efficiency optimization analysis, and power integrity analysis.
  • Develop design verification test plans, requirements compliance matrices, system integration and qualification test plans, and production acceptance test plans for power converters and power supply designs.
  • Perform bring-up and design verification testing of power electronics circuits and modules, often working with a technician or junior engineer to complete design verification.
  • Collaborate with multi-discipline engineering team and lead system integration and qualification campaigns, and release analog and power electronics designs to production.
  • Mentor junior engineers to build technical understanding and foster professional development of team.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor of Science (BS) degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
  • Minimum of 4 years of industry or university research experience in board-level power electronics design, analysis, and test.
  • Experience owning the design phase of circuits or boards, including trade studies, component selection, and detailed design.
  • Experience performing or guiding complex PCB layout for analog and power electronics.
  • Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as SPICE, LTSPICE, SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, Simulink, MATLAB, or MathCAD.
  • Strong laboratory testing and troubleshooting experience for prototyping, design verification testing and qualification of analog and power electronics hardware.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Experience:
  • Experience delivering subcircuit or board designs to production and deployment.
  • Proficiency in printed circuit board design tools such as Altium, OrCAD/Allegro, PADS/Xpedition, or similar.
  • Experience running board-level power integrity simulation tools such as Ansys SiWave, ADS SIPro, or HyperLynx.
  • Design for space radiation environments.
  • Direct experience designing high-reliability electronics for automotive, space or defense applications, including part derating, worst-case analysis, and thermal constraints.
Compensation:

$115,000 - $150,000 a year

Benefits:

CesiumAstro considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education/training, and key skills. Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package featuring health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life and retirement plans.

CesiumAstro, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.



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