Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Refactor.•Pittsburgh, PA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This is not your typical Electrical Engineering role. You’ll be the first dedicated Design Engineer in the business, working directly with the founder and experienced industry advisors to take their first product family from initial design through to full production. We want an engineer who can own end-to-end product design across electromagnetic, dielectric, thermal and mechanical engineering. You’ll own it.

Requirements

5+ years designing power equipment, whether that is transformers, reactors, wound magnetic components, insulation systems or comparable electrical hardware
Understand the engineering behind the product
Comfortable getting into electromagnetic design, insulation, thermal behaviour, calculations, testing and manufacturing

Nice To Haves

Experience with IEEE and UL standards
FEA experience
Coil winding experience
NPI experience
Experience taking a physical product through third-party certification

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end product design across electromagnetic, dielectric, thermal and mechanical engineering
Design wound magnetic equipment including transformers, reactors or similar high-voltage electrical hardware
Work across core and coil design, windings, insulation systems and thermal performance
Build engineering calculation packages from first principles, supported by FEA or equivalent design tools
Understand high-voltage insulation and testing including dielectric withstand, partial discharge and temperature rise
Design products around relevant IEEE, UL and federal efficiency requirements
Take designs from first prototype through type testing, certification and third-party listing
Work directly with equipment vendors, material suppliers and manufacturing to make sure designs can actually be built
Help grow the engineering function as the company moves from first article into full production