Battery Electronics Engineer II

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of battery electronics specification, architecture, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, mechanical packaging design, board-level bring-up and validation, environmental qualification, and integrated system-level validation
• Design circuits to implement functions such as battery voltage and current sensing, charge balancing, isolation and fault detection, power conversion, load switching, hot-swapping, inrush control, over-current fault detection, and more
• Perform failure modes and effects analyses and drive reliability design and validation plans at the system level

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field
• 2+ years of experience developing electrical hardware
• Willingness to work overtime or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in battery electrical systems
• Experience with collegiate project teams (e.g. Formula SAE, Hybrid Electric Vehicle)
• Experience with instrumentation and data acquisition (e.g. SPICE, SQL, National Instruments hardware)
• Proficiency in Matlab, Python, or C/C++
• Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses (Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, RS232/422/485)
• Experience with full-lifecycle product development
• Experience designing electronics for spaceflight environments and environmental testing (vibration, shock, thermal, TVAC)

About the Company

Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure a continuous human presence in space, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing through its Haven Station modules.