Lunar Power Systems Lead for Space Habitat

Telemetry Today LLC; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage for u&y

Equity

Generous PTO and parental leave

Job summary

Vast is seeking a Senior Power Systems Engineer, Lunar, to lead the end-to-end design of power systems for lunar missions. The role covers architecture, electronics, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, and environmental qualification for a variety of lunar hardware and spacecraft power needs.

Based in Long Beach, CA, you will define tradeoffs, drive reliability plans, and coordinate with test labs for vibration, thermal and radiation testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 6+ years of experience developing power electronics.
• Demonstrated ownership of at least one power electronics product from architecture through hardware bring-up and validation.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of power system architecture, electronics specification, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, mechanical packaging design, board-level bring-up and validation, environmental qualification, and integrated system-level validation.
• Define and own power architecture tradeoffs for lunar applications - including energy storage integration, solar array interfaces, eclipse and survival-mode power budgets, and fault-tolerant distribution topologies.
• Design circuits to implement functions such as power conversion, load switching, hot-swapping, power conditioning, inrush control, over-current fault detection, and more, with margin appropriate to long-duration lunar surface and cislunar operation.
• Lead radiation, thermal, and dust-mitigation design considerations for power hardware operating beyond LEO, coordinating part selection, derating, and screening.
• Perform failure modes and effects analyses and drive reliability design and validation plans at the system level, including single-point-failure retirement for human-rated applications.
• Own qualification campaigns end-to-end, partnering with the test lab across random vibration, shock, thermal cycling, burn-in, TVAC, and radiation testing.
• Drive design reviews and present architecture, analysis, and test results to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders at key program milestonesMentor junior engineers, review their designs, and help build the power electronics design standards, component libraries, and processes that scale across Vast programs

Skills

Power electronics

Circuit design

PCB design

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

Ethernet/CAN/SPI/I2C

RS422

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

CAN

SPI/I2C

RS-422

Job description

Vast is seeking a Senior Power Systems Engineer, Lunar, to lead the end-to-end design of power systems for lunar missions. The role covers architecture, electronics, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, and environmental qualification for a variety of lunar hardware and spacecraft power needs.

Based in Long Beach, CA, you will define tradeoffs, drive reliability plans, and coordinate with test labs for vibration, thermal and radiation testing.