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Power Electronics Engineer - High Voltage (Starlink)

SpaceX· Satellite Payload Engineering
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Redmond, WAFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead design of kV-level power supplies for TWTA-based Starlink gateways, owning hardware lifecycle from concept to production and integration, with cross-disciplinary collaboration to optimize performance, reliability, and mission critical uptime.

Responsibilities

  • Own hardware from conceptual design through high volume production and ground station operation
  • Deliver engineering expertise in designing, analyzing, and rigorously testing of DC-DC power converters built to thrive in harsh environments
  • Design power supplies that support 10s of kilovolts and hundreds of watts
  • Dive into electrical power system and sub-system design trades, shaping requirements that optimize performance, efficiency, and reliability
  • Lead in defining and executing comprehensive verification testing and analysis for electrical power systems
  • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to define power electronics hardware
  • Rapidly iterate on designs, analysis and test to inform high level systems trades and steer overall product direction
  • Interact with digital embedded devices, analog sensing and telemetry, system controls, etc.
  • Demonstrate extreme ownership of product outcomes at every stage of development and production

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other STEM discipline
  • 1+ years of experience in power converter development via professional work experience, project/research-based student experience, or a combination of both
  • Previous experience working with magnetics and design of custom transformers and inductors, including planar magnetics
  • Experience in modeling, simulation, and testing of power electronics

Skills

Required:Power electronics design and analysisMagnetics and transformer/inductor designModeling and simulation
Nice to have:Analog control and discrete logicVoltage and current mode control and compensationDC-DC topology selectionDesign for fault tolerance and reliabilityFailure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)Impedance and loop-gain measurement in-labCommunication and collaboration
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