Senior Power Electronics Engineer

The role

The Senior Power Electronics Engineer will own the electrical and power architecture of Gradient's robots. This includes defining power distribution, designing power electronics, and taking boards from schematic through production.

What you will do

• Own power architecture end-to-end including power distribution, conversion, and protection
• Run trade studies for key design decisions
• Design and validate power electronics from schematic and layout through bring-up and test
• Partner with mechanical engineers on sensing and actuation
• Build electronics with custom PCBs or industrial components
• Write firmware for a reliable control interface
• Drive thermal performance and manufacturability
• Partner with board vendors and contract manufacturers on yield
• Set high-power and high-voltage safety practices
• Design for compliance and take robots through testing and certification

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of electrical design experience, including power electronics designs you’ve taken to production
• Deep power electronics fundamentals: converter topologies, sizing discrete components, protection circuitry, and common failure modes
• Motor drive design experience: gate drivers, H-bridges, BLDC/PMSM, FOC
• Hands-on PCB design and layout for power and mixed-signal boards, including thermal and layout-level EMC considerations
• Experience with high-power and high-voltage safety principles and best practices, EMI/EMC mitigation and compliance testing, and taking hardware through safety certification
• A track record of defining requirements yourself and driving cross-system problems to resolution
• Strong hardware debugging
• An obsession with quality

Nice to have

• Experience at a robotics, industrial automation, automotive, or other motor-driven hardware company
• Firmware development experience (embedded C/C++ or Rust, motor control, communication protocols)
• Experience simulating power electronic circuits (LTspice, PLECS, or similar)
• Comfort using AI tools to multiply your own output

About the company

Gradient builds the autonomous robots that make the datacenter buildout possible. They move fast and build full-stack systems.