Power Electronics Engineer - Defense

Fruition Group US; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Group US assists a fast-growing defense technology company in the San Francisco Bay Area to hire a Power Electronics Engineer. You will take ownership of power electronics hardware from architecture and design through prototyping, testing, and production.

You will work across the design and development of power conversion, energy storage and electrical power systems, collaborating with mechanical, firmware and systems teams to deliver robust solutions.

Qualifications

• Power electronics and power conversion
• High-voltage and low-voltage power systems
• GaN and/or SiC technologies
• Analog and mixed-signal circuit design
• Altium or similar PCB design tools
• Hardware testing and troubleshooting
• Design for manufacture and production

Responsibilities

• Design and development of DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion systems
• LV and HV electrical architecture
• Inverter and power distribution design
• Selection and implementation of GaN and SiC power devices
• Circuit design, schematic capture and PCB development
• Hardware bring-up, debugging and validation
• EMI/EMC design and testing
• Protection, isolation, sensing and safety architecture
• Supporting products from prototype through qualification and production
• Working closely with mechanical, firmware and systems engineering teams

Skills

Power electronics

Power conversion

Analog design

Mixed-signal design

Altium

Hardware testing

PCB design

EMI/EMC

Tools

Altium

Job description

We are assisting a fast-growing defense technology company with the appointment of a Power Electronics Engineer to join their engineering team in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The company is developing advanced power and energy systems for demanding defense applications and is looking for an engineer who can take ownership of power electronics hardware from initial architecture and design through prototyping, testing and production.

The Role

You will work across the design and development of power conversion, energy storage and electrical power systems.

Responsibilities will include:

• Design and development of DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion systems
• LV and HV electrical architecture
• Inverter and power distribution design
• Selection and implementation of GaN and SiC power devices
• Circuit design, schematic capture and PCB development
• Hardware bring-up, debugging and validation
• EMI/EMC design and testing
• Protection, isolation, sensing and safety architecture
• Supporting products from prototype through qualification and production
• Working closely with mechanical, firmware and systems engineering teams

Experience Required

We are interested in speaking with engineers with experience across several of the following:

• Power electronics and power conversion
• High-voltage and low-voltage power systems
• GaN and/or SiC technologies
• Analog and mixed-signal circuit design
• Altium or similar PCB design tools
• Hardware testing and troubleshooting
• Design for manufacture and production

Experience within defense, aerospace, automotive, robotics, energy storage or other high-reliability hardware environments would be particularly relevant.

MIL-STD-461 or wider military/aerospace standards experience is advantageous but not essential.