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About the Role

The Head of Power Electronics will own everything between the generator shaft and the customer's bus, defining the power conversion system end to end, including conversion, protection, controls interfaces, and schemes for multiple units to operate as one plant. This role involves making build-versus-buy decisions, managing partners and suppliers, writing specifications, qualifying hardware, and integrating systems. As the team grows, you will hire and lead the power electronics team.

Responsibilities

Define the power conversion system end to end: conversion, protection, controls interfaces, and the schemes that let hundreds of units run as one plant.
Make the build-versus-buy call for every block and defend it with numbers.
Select partners, write specifications, qualify hardware, integrate it, and stand behind it on the test stand.
Hire and lead the power electronics team as in-house scope grows.

Requirements

Deep hands-on experience in high-voltage DC power conversion.
Experience in the EV industry, including traction inverters, 800 V platforms, onboard chargers, and DC fast charging.
Design experience with wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN) at real power levels.
Experience taking converters from schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC into production.
Understanding of factors that cause converter failure in the field.
Ability to determine when a converter is a commodity versus a differentiator.
Comfortable owning supplier relationships, writing source-control specifications, and running qualification testing.
Ability to move quickly between architecture and detail without losing rigor.
Experience with hardware operation and understanding of simulation accuracy and limitations.

Skills

High-voltage DC power conversion
Power conversion system design
Supplier management
Hardware qualification
System integration
Team leadership
Wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN)
Converter control loops
Embedded platforms

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Head of
Senior

About the Company

American Turbines is designing small modular gas turbines, purpose-built for distributed power generation.
Machines are designed from a blank sheet to be manufactured at scale and clustered in arrays.
Hundreds of units will operate in parallel, dynamically matching load like a compute cluster matches demand.
We are a seed-stage company backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian.