Power Electronics Engineer - Field Deployment

American Turbines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous stock package

Medical, vision, and dental care

2% matching on 401(k)

Job summary

American Turbines, a seed-stage company building distributed power solutions, seeks a Power Electronics Engineer in San Francisco to own on-site integration of 800VDC interfaces. You will design, procure, and install power electronics between microturbines and the DC bus bar, and be on-site through commissioning to ensure the system performs as designed.

You will work hands-on during installation, bringing the design from paper to a working, verified installation and taking accountability for

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying power conversion equipment at industrial scale.
• Proficiency with AC-DC conversion, motor drives or grid-tie inverters.
• On-site installation and commissioning experience is a must.

Responsibilities

• Own converting turbine output to the 800VDC bus on-site.
• Design, procure, and install power electronics between turbines and DC bus bar.
• Be on-site for installation and commissioning, from paper design to live system.
• Maintain end-to-end accountability during the installation process.

Skills

Power electronics design

Industrial-scale deployment

AC-DC conversion

Motor drives

Grid-tie inverters

Job description

About American Turbines

The power grid was built for a world that no longer exists. Centralized generation, hundred-mile transmission lines, decade-long permitting cycles. Meanwhile, demand is exploding: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can't wait for utilities to catch up.

American Turbines is designing small modular gas turbines, purpose-built for distributed power generation. Machines designed from a blank sheet to be manufactured at scale, clustered in arrays. Hundreds of units operating in parallel, dynamically matching load like a compute cluster matches demand. We are a seed-stage company backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian.

About the Role

The Power Electronics Engineer for our installation program will own converting the output of the microturbines we bring on-site into the 800VDC our first site requires. This includes designing, procuring, and installing every piece of power electronics between the turbines and the DC bus bar we connect into.

You’ll be based in San Francisco, but plan on stretches of weeks on-site during installation and commissioning, not just the occasional trip. You will take this from a paper design through a working installation, then be there for commissioning to make sure it performs the way you designed it to.

This is not a role where the design ships and someone else installs it. You will be on-site for the install and accountable for the interface working end to end.

What We’re Looking For

Experience designing and deploying power conversion equipment at industrial scale, whatever the domain. AC-to-DC conversion, motor drives, grid-tie inverters, anything where you took a design from schematic through a working, commissioned installation, not just a bench prototype.

You think about installation and serviceability as part of the design, not an afterthought. You’re comfortable being on-site through commissioning rather than handing it off once the drawings are done.

Compensation

$165,000 to $215,000 base.

Generous stock package.

Medical, vision, and dental care.

2% matching on 401(k).