Power Electronics Engineer II

Location: El Segundo, California, United States; on-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations under U.S. space technology export regulations.

Salary: $118,000–$142,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Support the full development lifecycle of power electronics hardware for spacecraft payloads and space power systems.
• Help define power system architectures and perform trade studies.
• Design circuits, run simulations, and develop schematics and printed circuit board layouts.
• Perform hardware verification, integration testing, and troubleshooting using laboratory instruments.
• Support manufacturing and collaborate across the spacecraft payload development team.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
• At least 2 years of experience designing analog and power electronics.
• Experience designing power stages for basic DC-DC converter topologies, including discrete linear regulators, Buck, Boost, and Buck-boost converters.
• Knowledge of voltage-mode control and peak-current-mode control theory for DC-DC converters.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium, OrCAD, Allegro, or Xpedition.
• Hands-on experience testing and troubleshooting electronics and power converters with oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, electronic loads, and signal generators.
• Experience with analysis and simulation tools including SPICE, LTSPICE, SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, Simulink, MATLAB, MathCAD, ANSYS Q3D and SiWave, or HyperLynx.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Master of Science or PhD in Electrical Engineering with a research focus in power electronics.
• Experience with board-level power integrity simulation using Ansys SiWave or HyperLynx.
• Experience modeling, designing, and characterizing power magnetics in the laboratory.
• Experience with control-loop modeling and laboratory characterization.
• Knowledge of power electronics applications using GaN or SiC wide-bandgap power semiconductor devices.
• Programming skills for hardware testing and data processing, such as Python or MATLAB.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, on-site employment in El Segundo, California.
• Dynamic, cross-functional, hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work environment.
• Company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and retirement benefits.