Electrical Engineer – Power Electronics

Teksky LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Teksky LLC is seeking an Electrical Engineer – Power Electronics to design, develop, test, and deploy megawatt-class power conversion systems for next-generation energy storage technology in Mountain View, CA.

The engineer will own electrical hardware from architecture through bring-up, validation, debugging, and field deployment, working across power electronics, controls, mechanical, firmware, thermal, and electrical systems. This is a hands-on, cross-disciplinary role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing, analyzing, building, testing, commissioning, or manufacturing electrical/electromechanical hardware.
• Experience with electrical hardware design and development; ability to work hands-on during testing and validation.

Responsibilities

• Architect MW-class bidirectional grid-facing power conversion systems.
• Evaluate converter topologies and select components.
• Design high-voltage power stages, gate drives, sensing, and controls interfaces.
• Develop fast fault detection, protection systems, interlocks, and safe-state behavior.
• Lead board and system bring-up, debugging, characterization, and design iterations.
• Integrate electrical systems with magnet, cryogenic, vacuum, mechanical, firmware, and controls engineering.
• Take electrical systems from schematic to reliable operation and deployment.
• Support design-for-manufacturing and hardware production activities.
• Troubleshoot complex electrical and electromechanical systems and drive solutions from concept to implementation.

Skills

Hands-on hardware

Electrical hardware design

Electrical testing

Systems integration

Prototype debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer – Power Electronics to design, develop, test, and deploy advanced megawatt-class power conversion systems for next-generation energy storage technology.

The engineer will own electrical hardware from initial architecture and schematic development through board/system bring-up, validation, debugging, and field deployment. This role requires a highly hands-on engineer who can work across power electronics, controls, mechanical, firmware, thermal, and electrical systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect bidirectional, grid-facing MW-class power conversion systems.
• Evaluate converter topologies and select switching devices, magnetics, capacitors, sensors, and protection components.
• Design high-voltage power stages, gate drives, sensing systems, controls interfaces, grounding, and supporting electronics.
• Develop fast fault detection, protection systems, interlocks, safe-state behavior, and supervisory controls.
• Design and build electrical test infrastructure and instrumentation.
• Lead board and system bring-up, debugging, characterization, and design iterations.
• Integrate electrical systems with magnet, cryogenic, vacuum, mechanical, firmware, and controls engineering.
• Take electrical systems from initial schematic through reliable operation and field deployment.
• Support design-for-manufacturing and hardware production activities.
• Troubleshoot complex electrical and electromechanical systems and drive solutions from concept to implementation.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, another relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience, including internships or co-ops, designing, analyzing, building, testing, commissioning, or manufacturing electrical/electromechanical hardware.
• Strong understanding of electrical and electromechanical components.
• Experience with electrical hardware design and development.
• Ability to work hands-on with hardware during testing, debugging, and validation.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with several of the following:

• High-voltage, high-current, or high-power electrical systems.
• Power semiconductors, gate drives, magnetics, sensing, controls, and protection.
• SiC or GaN converters.
• Grid-tied inverters.
• UPS or battery systems.
• Pulse-power systems.
• Magnet power supplies.
• Superconducting magnets.
• Fusion systems, accelerators, cryogenic systems, or other high-energy hardware.
• Hardware schematic development, layout, bring-up, debugging, and validation.
• Electrical system commissioning and field deployment.
• Design-for-manufacturing and production-scale hardware.
• Cross-functional integration with firmware, controls, mechanical, thermal, and electrical engineering teams.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate has taken electrical hardware from concept through schematic, build, bring-up, debugging, validation, and real-world operation. They should be comfortable working hands-on while also making system-level technical decisions and solving ambiguous engineering problems.

Compensation:

$125,000 – $250,000 annually