Power Electronics Engineer II

CesiumAstro • El Segundo, CA

9d • $118,000 - $142,000

About The Position

CesiumAstro is seeking a Power Electronics Engineer II to join its spacecraft payload development team. The role contributes across the development lifecycle of power electronics hardware for satellites and space power systems payloads, including power-system architecture and trade studies, circuit design and simulation, PCB layout, verification and integration testing, and manufacturing support.

Applicants must meet U.S. government space technology export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee, or be eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations. Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a benefits package with health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
• At least 2 years of experience designing analog and power electronics.
• Experience designing power stages for basic DC-DC converter topologies, such as discrete linear regulators, buck, boost, and buck-boost.
• Knowledge of voltage-mode control and peak-current-mode control theory for DC-DC converters.
• Experience with electronics schematic-capture and PCB-layout tools such as Altium, OrCAD, Allegro, or Xpedition.
• Hands-on experience testing and troubleshooting electronics and power converters with laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, electronic loads, and signal generators.
• Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as SPICE, LTspice, SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, Simulink, MATLAB, MathCAD, ANSYS Q3D and SiWave, or HyperLynx.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations, to comply with U.S. Government Space Technology Export Regulations.

Nice To Haves

• Master of Science or PhD in Electrical Engineering with a research focus in power electronics.
• Experience running board-level power-integrity simulations using tools such as Ansys SiWave or HyperLynx.
• Experience with power magnetics modeling, design, and laboratory characterization.
• Experience with control-loop modeling and laboratory characterization.
• Knowledge of power-electronics applications using GaN or SiC wide-bandgap power semiconductor devices.
• Programming skills for hardware testing and data processing, such as Python or MATLAB.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to power-system architecture definition and trade studies.
• Perform detailed circuit design and simulation for power electronics hardware.
• Design and lay out printed circuit boards.
• Support verification and integration testing.
• Support manufacturing.

Benefits

• Company stock options.
• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account (FSA).
• Life and disability plans.
• Retirement plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level