Power Electronics Engineer

Aerospacelab; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospacelab in Toulouse leads advanced space programs and earth observation services. We are seeking an experienced electrical power systems engineer to design power subsystems for spacecraft missions, from converters to integration and testing.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and mechanical teams, review designs, and develop test plans. Depending on experience, you may drive full projects and mentor a multidisciplinary group.

Qualifications

• Must have MSc or PhD in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in power supplies design, including converters and regulation.
• Proficiency using Spice simulators for switching converters analysis.
• Knowledge of common converter topologies, both isolated and non-isolated.
• Experience with magnetics design and implementation.
• Experience leading in-house and subcontractor design teams.
• Experience with diagnosis, testing methodologies at component and system level.
• Ability to collaborate across teams to drive designs to completion.
• Good English knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Support electrical power systems design for spacecraft missions.
• Support development chain from converter design to integration and testing.
• Support design reviews to ensure interface compliance.
• Collaborate with external electronics/magnetics providers to review designs and testing approaches.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure design suitability for space environment.
• Develop test plans to validate power supplies.
• Possibly drive full projects and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team.

Skills

Power supplies design

Spice simulations

Converter topologies

Magnetics design

Team leadership

Education

MSc or PhD in Electrical/Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Spice simulators

PCB routing

Job description

About Aerospacelab

Our mission is supported by an ambitious vertically integrated approach: design & manufacture of small satellites combined with development of earth observation services.

Since its creation in 2018, the company has already grown substantially. Our team gathers more than 25 engineering expertise, from hardware design to software development & data science.

In 2025, Aerospacelab counts offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast with more than 350 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Role overview

• Supportor lead electrical power systems design for spacecraft missions
• Supportall aspects of the development chain: converter design and analysis,integration, test, operations, and maintenance
• Supportdesign reviews to ensure requirements and interface compliance
• Workclosely with external providers of electronics and magnetics to reviewdesigns, identify and resolve issues and develop integration and testapproaches
• Supportsubsystem development with a multidisciplinary team of flight software/FPGA developers and mechanical/thermal engineers (to ensure design iscompatible with space application environment)
• Developtest plans that ensure adequate testing of power supplies
• Dependingon experience, drive full projects and lead a team of multidisciplinaryengineers

Must have

• MScor PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or relatedfield
• 3+years of experience of power supplies design, including power circuit,regulation circuit and filters design and related implementation (PCBrouting and tests)
• Proficiencyin using Spice simulators for switching converters analysis (ideallyconsidering parasitic elements contribution when relevant) : switchingtransients, stability analsyis, etc...
• Agood knowledge of the most common converter topologies, both non-isolatedand isolated
• Experiencewith magnetics design and implementation
• Experienceleading existing in-house and subcontractor component/subassembly design
• Experiencewith diagnosis, debug and component, assembly and system level testingmethodologies
• Demonstratedability to work across the team and company to drive designs to completion
• Good English knowledge

Nice to have

• Apassion for technology and rapid execution of sophisticated space missions
• Practicalknowledge of advanced/resonant converter topologies and associatedregulation schemes (both analog and digital)
• Experiencewith EMC/EMI design and testing
• Proficiencywith common industry electronic design software