Hybrid Power Electronics Engineer – High-Impact Hardware

Mainspring Energy; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Hybrid position

Onsite at Menlo Park HQ

Job summary

Mainspring Energy is hiring a Power Electronics Engineer for its Menlo Park HQ. The role focuses on designing and validating hardware for the Linear Generator, collaborating across production, reliability, and supplier teams.

Qualifications include a Electrical Engineering degree and 2–5 years in power electronics, with hands-on lab skills, schematic capture, and high‑voltage design experience. This is a hybrid role with onsite testing and remote work options.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or higher.
• 2–5 years of experience developing power electronics technologies.
• Ability to take concept-level designs and produce a schematic.
• Experience with circuit board design and design ownership

Responsibilities

• Design power electronics hardware for the Linear Generator.
• Bring-up, validate, and qualify power electronics designs.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues in lab, production, and field.
• Collaborate with NPI team and suppliers for manufacturability.
• Improve reliability with reliability engineers.
• Own the hardware systems you design.

Skills

Power electronics

Schematic capture

Circuit modeling

Troubleshooting

Altium

High voltage design

Team collaboration

Electrical engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Power Analyzers

Network Analyzers

Signal Generators

Job description

Mainspring Energy is hiring a Power Electronics Engineer for its Menlo Park HQ. The role focuses on designing and validating hardware for the Linear Generator, collaborating across production, reliability, and supplier teams.

Qualifications include a Electrical Engineering degree and 2–5 years in power electronics, with hands-on lab skills, schematic capture, and high‑voltage design experience. This is a hybrid role with onsite testing and remote work options.