engineering
Posted Dec 19, 2025Power Electronics Engineer
at Starcloud
Redmond, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Design and Development:
- Lead the design, analysis, and testing of DC-DC power converters tailored for harsh space environments.
- Conduct electrical power system and sub-system level design trades and develop comprehensive requirements.
- Define and perform rigorous electrical power system verification testing and analysis.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of design, test, and production engineers to create groundbreaking power electronics hardware.
- Develop and optimize designs for power conversion systems, ensuring peak efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Address and resolve EMI/EMC challenges in power adaptors to ensure compliance with stringent regulatory standards.
- Perform advanced modeling, simulation, and testing of power electronics to validate and refine designs.
- Lead schematic capture and PCB layout design, ensuring robustness, manufacturability, and compliance with design specifications.
- Oversee board bring-up, execute comprehensive test campaigns, and propose effective solutions to design challenges.
- Develop efficiency, mass, and cost models for power electronics designs, exploring and implementing various topologies to enhance performance. Basic
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related STEM discipline.
- experience in power converter development. Preferred
- Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- experience in modeling, simulation, and testing of power electronics.
- Strong understanding of DC-DC topologies, with the ability to select optimal architectures and components.
- Familiarity with failure mode effects and criticality analysis. •
- Experience designing wire wound and planar inductors and transformers.
- Proficiency in power supply testing and packaging for harsh environments.
- Familiarity with spacecraft electrical power systems and knowledge of radiation effects. •
- Experience designing and working with solar arrays as input power sources.