Hardware Integration Engineer (Power Electronics)

TL;DR

Hardware Integration Engineer (Power Electronics): Own the technical thread turning subsystems into robust products for grid-tied converters connecting renewables, storage, and high-power loads with an accent on system requirements, interfaces, and verification. Focus on hands-on integration, rigorous testing, root cause analysis, and building repeatable playbooks for development, sustainment, and field reliability.

Onsite in Scotts Valley

Salary: $130,000–$189,000 per year

Company

Startup building cutting-edge power electronics to accelerate electrification by de-bottlenecking grid growth with scalable hardware solutions.

What you will do

• Conduct system-level design and analysis for power electronics converters connected to medium-voltage grid and DC sources/loads.
• Derive and challenge requirements, drive design reviews, interface definitions, and verification planning.
• Define integration paths, success criteria, and staged plans from subsystem to production/field.
• Develop and execute test plans, build test setups and tooling for fast validation loops.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions during bring-up, integration, and field trials.
• Build processes for issue tracking, regression testing, system architecture maintenance, and field feedback loops.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in systems integration, bring-up, testing on complex electrical systems (power electronics preferred).
• Demonstrated ownership across product lifecycle chunks (prototype to validation or development to field fixes).
• Strong fundamentals in power, controls/embedded behavior, and system interfaces (electrical, thermal, mechanical).
• Hands-on integration/debugging with instrumentation, logs/telemetry, firmware, CAN or similar comms.

Nice to have

• Experience in grid-tied inverters, PCS, or medium-voltage systems.
• Familiarity with power system modeling, operation, and protection techniques.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering (Weibull analysis, derating, ALT/HALT).
• Experience building automated test coverage/regression frameworks (Python or similar).

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment driven by first principles, hands-on execution, and learning by doing.
• Dynamic startup focused on personal, technical, and career growth.
• Competitive compensation including salary and equity, plus benefits.