Lead Power Electronics Engineer (Solid-State Circuit Breakers)

Location: Pullman, Washington, United States; 100% on-site. US citizenship required.

Salary: $107,600–$161,500 annually for the Lead Hardware Engineer level. A different level may be considered based on experience, with compensation aligned accordingly.

Company

hirify.global is a 100% employee-owned company developing power engineering products and technologies.

What you will do

• Design, analyze, and develop power electronic circuits and subsystems for solid-state circuit breaker products.
• Develop switching, protection, sensing, control, gate-drive, and fault-detection circuits using silicon, SiC, and GaN devices.
• Create schematics, select components, develop PCB designs, and perform electrical, thermal, magnetic, and reliability analyses.
• Model and simulate circuits and systems using MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, LTspice, PSCAD, or equivalent tools.
• Plan and execute prototyping, laboratory testing, characterization, validation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Collaborate across firmware, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineering; support design reviews, certification, environmental qualification, EMC/EMI testing, safety evaluations, and documentation.

Requirements

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in power electronics design, depending on level.
• Strong knowledge of power semiconductor devices, including MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC MOSFETs, and/or GaN devices.
• Experience designing high-power, high-voltage, or high-current electronic systems.
• Experience with circuit simulation and modeling tools such as LTspice, PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink, PSCAD, or equivalent.
• Understanding of power conversion, switching transients, protection systems, and control techniques.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB development.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, writing, documentation, and communication skills; ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities; satisfactory background check results and negative drug test result(s).

Nice to have

• MS degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Power Electronics.
• Experience with solid-state circuit breakers, fault current limiting devices, advanced protection systems, wide-bandgap semiconductors, medium-voltage or utility-scale power electronics, gate-drive design, or high-speed switching.
• Experience with thermal management, magnetics design, EMI/EMC mitigation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, real-time simulation, requirements-based development, or MBSE methodologies.
• Familiarity with utility, industrial, aerospace, defense, transportation, or microgrid applications.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% employee-owned company with an employer-funded stock ownership plan and 401(k) options.
• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 10 paid holidays, vacation starting at 12 days annually, 9 paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave covering 90% of pay.
• STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, engineering development programs, wellness benefits, fertility and adoption benefits, and flexible spending benefits.