Senior Electrical Engineer, Power Electronics
About The Position
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the worldâs most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless reaction with near-zero NOx emissions. Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Catalyst Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and weâre quickly scaling for international expansion. Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and weâre hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers. The technology that powers Mainspringâs Linear Generator is unlike any other generator technology on the market. The Linear Generator relies on innovative electrical power and control hardware systems to achieve its best-in-class efficiency while meeting the worldâs strictest emissions requirements. These electrical hardware systems are designed by a talented team of electrical engineers that own hardware design from initial concept through test and manufacturing. We have a high impact opportunity for a power electronics engineer to shape the future of the Linear Generatorâs power electronics systems.
Requirements
- Bachelorâs degree, or higher, in Electrical Engineering
- 5 years of experience developing power electronics technologies
- Excellent electronics design fundamentals; ability to take concept level design details, select components, and produce a schematic
- Examples of taking ownership of a power electronics design project
- Circuit board design experience
- Familiar with schematic capture and power converter circuit modeling/simulation tools
- Knowledge of power electronics control theory
- Proficiency with EE tools (Oscilloscopes, Power Analyzers, Network Analyzers, Signal Generators etc.)
- Experience with power semiconductor selection, gate drive, and protection circuit design
- Proven ability to work independently on an electronics design project
- Clear verbal and written communication skills
- A passion for hands-on hardware development
- A âcollaborate-firstâ mindset and have successfully communicated across a range of teams and personalities
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing high voltage (480VAC or 800VDC range) systems
- Experience designing kW-level power electronics
- Experience in the full hardware development life cycle, from requirements development to manufacturing support
- Experience working at a startup or rapid development environment
- Experience with Altium
Responsibilities
- Design custom power electronics hardware that enables key functions of our Linear Generator
- Bring-up, validate, and qualify your power electronics designs
- Troubleshoot complex hardware issues that arise in the test lab, production floor, and fielded units
- Collaborate with the new production introduction team and external suppliers to improve designs for manufacturability and testability
- Partner with reliability engineers to further drive up electrical hardware reliability
- Serve as an expert on the hardware systems that you own
Benefits
- This role is an amazing growth opportunity, where you will work closely with and learn from a small team of top-caliber power electronics engineers. Working together, you will jointly own all the custom power electronics within our system.
- This is a onsite position at our Menlo Park HQ. It will require you to be onsite as required to perform testing, troubleshooting, manufacturing support, etc. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
