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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• At least 6 years of experience developing power electronics.
• Demonstrated ownership of at least one power-electronics product from architecture through hardware bring-up and validation.
• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones.
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time to support customer meetings.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a power-electronics emphasis.
• Experience designing electronics for spaceflight and verifying workmanship and operability through environmental testing, including random vibration, shock, thermal testing, burn-in, and TVAC.
• Experience with hardware intended for beyond-LEO, lunar, planetary, or other high-radiation and extreme-thermal environments, including radiation-tolerant part selection, derating, and screening.
• Experience with human-rated or other high-consequence systems where fault tolerance and single-point-failure retirement drive architecture.
• Professional experience with instrumentation and data acquisition.
• Experience with programming languages or tools such as MATLAB, Python, or C/C++.
• Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, and I2C, and serial I/O such as RS422.
• Experience with full-lifecycle product development, including transition to production and manufacturing support.

Responsibilities

• Own power-system architecture, electronics specification, simulation, schematic capture, PCB and mechanical packaging design, board-level bring-up and validation, environmental qualification, and integrated system-level validation.
• Define power architecture tradeoffs for lunar applications, including energy storage integration, solar-array interfaces, eclipse and survival-mode power budgets, and fault-tolerant distribution topologies.
• Design circuits for power conversion, load switching, hot-swapping, power conditioning, inrush control, and over-current fault detection, with appropriate margin for long-duration lunar surface and cislunar operation.
• Lead radiation, thermal, and dust-mitigation considerations for power hardware operating beyond LEO, coordinating part selection, derating, and screening.
• Perform failure modes and effects analyses and lead system-level reliability design and validation plans, including retirement of single-point failures for human-rated applications.
• Own qualification campaigns end-to-end with test labs, including random vibration, shock, thermal cycling, burn-in, TVAC, and radiation testing.
• Lead design reviews and present architecture, analysis, and test results to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders at program milestones.
• Mentor junior engineers, review designs, and help develop power-electronics design standards, component libraries, and processes that scale across Vast programs.

Benefits

• Company equity for full-time employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Generous paid time off; exempt staff may receive 20+ vacation days and non-exempt staff may receive 10+ vacation days, with the ability to cash out unused vacation annually.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• ClassPass credits.
• Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health.
• Other discounts and perks.
• Free snacks, drip coffee, cold drinks, and dinner meals; subsidized lunch.
• Onsite barista.