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About the Role
Amperesand is seeking a Validation Engineer to own the validation of power electronics, thermal systems, and firmware. You will build test systems, develop strategies, and ensure hardware and firmware function flawlessly.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain test systems for high-voltage power electronics.
- Validate electrical, thermal, and performance characteristics of products across prototype, pre-production, and production stages.
- Conduct comprehensive regression testing to ensure new iterations meet performance and reliability standards.
- Define a manufacturing test specification for volume production.
- Innovate test system design to meet accuracy, cycle time, cost, and other performance factors.
- Collaborate with hardware design and firmware teams to understand the product and its functionalities.
- Investigate root causes of failures and drive product improvements.
- Participate hands-on during test hardware bring-up, system debugging, and assist with software optimization.
- Incorporate design techniques to achieve ease of validation and maintenance.
- Challenge ideas and decisions with reasoning from first principles.
- Travel to different facilities worldwide to collaborate with teams and deploy solutions.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience in test engineering, preferably in power electronics.
- Strong understanding of power electronics principles, including high-voltage, high-current systems, and power conversion technologies.
- Solid experience with PCBA schematics and debugging hardware components.
- Familiarity with using oscilloscopes, multimeters, power analyzers, and other test equipment.
- Experience using system-level languages (such as Golang, Rust, C, C++, etc.) to automate systems.
- Engaged, proactive, and positive when taking on challenging tasks, owning assignments, and taking accountability for personal and overall team success.
Skills
- Power electronics
- Thermal systems
- Firmware validation
- Test system development
- Electrical validation
- Performance validation
- Regression testing
- Manufacturing test specification
- Hardware debugging
- PCBA schematics
- Oscilloscopes
- Multimeters
- Power analyzers
- Golang
- Rust
- C
- C++
Location
- San Francisco
- Reno
- Singapore
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 1+ years
Education Level
- BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000-$155,000/annual + equity
Benefits
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan
- Paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
- Commuter Benefits
- 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks)
- 100% paid paternal leave (6 weeks)
About the Company
- Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems by building hardware and software that rewrites the broken power infrastructure playbook.
- We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth.
- Our products and solutions go beyond traditional electrical equipment, offering faster deployment, smaller size, greater efficiency, and support for dynamic energy needs.
- We leverage a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research and have scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability.
- Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top-tier investors.
- With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is focused on solving pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.