Principal Electrical Engineer, Power Systems

• You've owned electrical systems end to end, from architecture through schematic capture, hardware bring-up, and field validation, rather than have handed off a design and waited for someone else's test data.
• You think in systems. You can move fluidly between power electronics, protection, instrumentation, and controls because you understand how they interact. 
• You'd rather be at the test cell debugging an issue than creating endless white papers on what could happen.
• You want to set the architecture and defend the tradeoffs yourself. Not execute someone else's spec or wait for sign-off.
• You're energized by ambiguity. When there's no spec to follow, you write one. 

• →Own the electrical architecture for major portions of Superpower, such as power distribution, protection, instrumentation, and controls interfaces. Ownership spans from first concept through finalized and validated, running hardware.
• →Design and build the systems that monitor, protect, and sense the engine under real operating conditions.
• →Partner directly with propulsion, mechanical, controls, and test engineering to integrate electrical systems into a gas turbine platform built from scratch. 
• →Effectively manage vendor relationships for critical pieces of outsourced hardware. 
• →Lead root-cause investigation when hardware doesn't behave the way the model said it would, in real time, during a test.
• →Set technical direction for other engineers working within your system.

• 7+ years designing and proving electrical systems for power-dense, safety-critical, or first-of-its-kind hardware, such as grid-scale battery systems (Megapack, Powerpack, or similar), motorsport power units (F1, Formula E, IndyCar, LMDh/LMH), aerospace/satellite power and avionics, or comparable high-performance electrical platforms.
• Real depth in at least two of: power distribution, protection systems, instrumentation, high-power electronics, or controls hardware. You also have working fluency across all of them.
• A track record of taking a system from blank page to tested hardware, and owning what happens when it doesn't work the first time.
• Comfort making difficult decisions with incomplete information, and the ability to quickly respond when new information invalidates those decisions . 
• Hands-on lab and test experience where you debug with a probe in your hand, not just a datasheet.

To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.

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