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About the Role
Astro Mechanica is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer specializing in power electronics and power systems development. This role involves the full product lifecycle, from concept to delivery, in a fast-paced startup environment with a direct impact on the company's mission to democratize high-speed flight.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-performance, high-density, high-reliability power converters
- Own system trades, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, layout, bring-up, debugging, manufacturing, and test
- Support hardware through prototyping, characterization, ground testing and flight
- Work closely with other engineering disciplines to design, develop and optimize high-power propulsion and generation systems
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD with focus on power electronics or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, testing, and shipping power converters
- Ability to develop component and system trade studies through high degrees of ambiguity
- Experience bringing at least two products through full lifecycle, from concept to production
- Experience working on high voltage (up to 1000V) and/or high power (>10kW) converters
- Expertise in various DC-DC and DC-AC power conversion topologies, preferably with high frequency multilevel architectures
- Intimate understanding of electric machines and motor control methodologies
- Expertise in optimizing switching power loops to optimize converter performance and minimize EMI
- Proficiency in circuit board layout for high-density converters (Altium preferred)
- Proficiency with analysis tools to simulate and optimize circuit and system performance (LTSPICE, PLECS, Simulink, Scripting, etc)
- Proficiency in modeling time-domain dynamic circuit and system behavior
- Working understanding of structural and thermal considerations for power converters
- Experience with automating hardware test and development functions
Skills
- Power electronics
- Power systems development
- Altium
- LTSPICE
- PLECS
- Simulink
- Scripting
Location
- On-site
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- BS
- MS
- PhD
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) program
- Transparent stock option plan
- Self-managed and flexible time-off policy
- PTO
- Paid holidays
- Sick time
About the Company
- Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future.
- Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable.
- We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet.
- We are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies—which include Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system—with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel is today.
- In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.
- We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.
- We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.
- We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.
Equal Opportunity
- Astro Mechanica is an equal opportunity employer.
- We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.