Senior Power Electronics Engineer — Flight Hardware + Equity

Lumex Talent; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumex Talent seeks a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to design and own power systems and boards for high-speed flight vehicles, with hands-on hardware responsibility.

You will own end-to-end work from schematic capture and layout through bring-up, debugging, testing and production integration in a fast-paced avionics team.

U.S. citizen, eligible for security clearance, and based in or relocating to the Greater Los Angeles Area for 100% on-site work.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on power electronics design experience.
• Strong PCB design and high-power layout skills.
• Proficiency with SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink for circuit analysis.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• PCBA Design & Hardware Ownership: Design power electronics PCBAs, including motor controllers, DC-DC converters, inverters, high-power switches, and power distribution systems for advanced flight vehicles.
• Full-Lifecycle Execution: Own your hardware end-to-end, driving designs from initial schematic design to lab bring-up, hardware debugging, qualification testing, and production integration.
• System-Level Power Architecture: Define system requirements and architect the overall vehicle power distribution story in a system context (you own the outcome).
• High-Power Vehicle Avionics: Engineer high-voltage and high-current power architectures for electromechanical actuators, power filtering, and power bus sizing.
• Ground Support: Support ground power equipment and support electronics alongside flight vehicle hardware development.

Skills

Power electronics design

PCB design using Altium

Circuit simulation

MATLAB/Simulink

High-ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Job description

Lumex Talent seeks a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to design and own power systems and boards for high-speed flight vehicles, with hands-on hardware responsibility.

You will own end-to-end work from schematic capture and layout through bring-up, debugging, testing and production integration in a fast-paced avionics team.

U.S. citizen, eligible for security clearance, and based in or relocating to the Greater Los Angeles Area for 100% on-site work.