Senior Space Power Electronics Engineer

Space Kinetic; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity-Based Compensation

401(k) retirement plan with company 3.

Highly competitive PTO

Paid company holidays + winter break

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Space Kinetic is hiring a Senior Motor and Power Controls Engineer for its El Segundo headquarters. You will own the design, development, integration, and testing of power electronics and electrical power systems for spacecraft payloads and hardware.

You will lead cross-disciplinary efforts across electrical, mechanical, controls, and software teams to translate system needs into flight-ready architectures and hardware, while mentoring others and maintaining a hands-on engineering presence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years in embedded systems, motor controls, or power controls.
• Strong C/C++ firmware development and real-time embedded skills.
• Experience with BLDC/PMSM motor control, commutation, and closed-loop control.
• Experience with microcontrollers, PWM, ADCs, and power electronics.
• US person required due to export-controlled information access.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of power electronics for spacecraft and electromechanical systems.
• Design high-power switching electronics, DC/DC converters, motor drives, and power distribution.
• Develop power architectures with energy storage, battery management, protection, and distribution.
• Perform electrical, thermal, efficiency, transient, and derating analyses.
• Select and qualify power semiconductors, gate drivers, and other components.
• Develop schematics, PCB layouts, interfaces, and hardware specs.
• Lead hardware bring-up, debugging, characterization, and qualification testing.
• Collaborate with controls and embedded engineers on interfaces and control strategies.
• Support vehicle integration, environmental testing, and flight hardware development.
• Provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with design.

Skills

Power electronics

Embedded firmware (C/C++)

Motor control (BLDC/PMSM)

Real-time embedded systems

Systems integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

CAN bus

SPI

I2C

UART

RTOS

Job description

Space Kinetic is hiring a Senior Motor and Power Controls Engineer for its El Segundo headquarters. You will own the design, development, integration, and testing of power electronics and electrical power systems for spacecraft payloads and hardware.

You will lead cross-disciplinary efforts across electrical, mechanical, controls, and software teams to translate system needs into flight-ready architectures and hardware, while mentoring others and maintaining a hands-on engineering presence.