Senior Power Electronics Engineer

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 through advanced airframe and engine technologies.

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
• 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 DC-DC and DC-AC power conversion topologies
• Intimate understanding of electric machines and motor control methodologies
• Proficiency in circuit board layout (Altium preferred)
• Proficiency with simulation tools like LTSPICE, PLECS, or Simulink
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in high frequency multilevel architectures
• Expertise in optimizing switching power loops to minimize EMI