Senior Battery Electrical Systems Engineer

6 days ago


Long Beach, California, United States Vast Full time
About the Role

Vast is seeking a highly skilled Senior Battery Electrical Engineer to join our team in Long Beach. As a key member of our Power & Systems team, you will play a critical role in the development of our artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

Responsibilities
  • Design and develop advanced battery systems for our space stations, ensuring optimal energy, power, and cost performance.
  • Conduct technical surveys of battery technology to inform the development of next-generation space stations.
  • Own the cell selection process for optimized battery performance, considering a wide range of technologies.
  • Lead the development of battery and battery management system specifications, architecture, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, board-level bring-up and validation, environmental qualification, and integrated system-level validation.
  • Design circuits to implement functions such as battery voltage/current sensing, charge balancing, disconnect relays, galvanic isolation, and fault detection.
  • Develop battery models for electronic simulation and system modeling, as well as battery state-of-charge estimation algorithms.
  • Perform due diligence on designs, including reliability calculations, FEA, FMEA, and DFMEA.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
  • 4+ years of experience developing electrical hardware.
Preferred Skills & Experience
  • 4+ years of experience in battery electrical systems for space vehicles, including design, development, test, in-flight operation, and anomaly resolution.
  • Ability to creatively solve problems and bring multiple disciplines together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions with incomplete data sets.
  • Experience working with instrumentation and data acquisition (e.g., SPICE, SQL, and/or National Instruments hardware).
  • Experience with software programming: Matlab, Python, C/C++, etc.
  • Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, and I2C, as well as serial I/O (RS232/422/485).
  • Experience with full-lifecycle product development.
  • Experience with battery design for spaceflight environments, verifying workmanship and operability through environmental tests (random vibration, shock, thermal, TVAC, and thermal runaway testing).
  • Experience with Siemens NX and Altium, or equivalent electrical design platforms.
  • Strong sense of accountability and integrity with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to thrive in an early-stage startup environment, where you will have the opportunity to help create and optimize key systems and processes.
Compensation & Benefits

Vast offers a comprehensive compensation package, including a base salary, company equity, and access to a full suite of benefits and perks, including:

  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible paid time off for exempt staff and up to 15 days of vacation for non-exempt staff.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Free catered meals and snacks and beverages.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • One Medical membership.
  • ClassPass credits.
  • Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health.
  • Other discounts and perks.


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