Power Electronics Engineer

The role

You will design the power subsystem of stratospheric electric aircraft. The role focuses on hardware including circuit design, lab bring-up, and testing.

What you will do

• Battery testing and characterization including capacity, impedance, and cycling measurements
• Support for safety qualification testing
• Defining and validating the electrical interface between the solar array and the power bus
• Designing and validating protection and power conversion circuits
• Board level bring-up and system integration testing
• Producing and maintaining design documentation, test reports, and requirement compliance records

Required qualifications

• Experience in power electronics design for battery powered and/or solar powered systems
• Familiarity with DC-DC converter topologies
• Practical experience with hardware bring-up, debugging, and verification testing using standard laboratory equipment
• Experience with lithium-ion battery systems
• Technical grounding in solar/photovoltaic array integration
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools
• Experience with embedded systems applied to power electronics
• Strong technical writing ability

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace or other high reliability electronics programs
• Familiarity with component derating methodologies and EMI/EMC design practice
• Familiarity with embedded communication protocols relevant to power system telemetry and control (e.g. CAN, I2C)
• Experience with power delivery network (PDN) analysis

Before you apply

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
• Technical Interview includes a Technical Challenge

About the company

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. The company has more than 900 employees and operates internationally.