Staff Power Electronics Control Engineer

The role

You will lead the control architecture and system behavior of advanced AC-DC and DC-DC power conversion platforms. You will define control strategies, own system-level decisions, and mentor engineers across modeling, digital control, and hardware integration.

What you will do

• Own control architecture for advanced power conversion systems.
• Own system-level dynamic performance from concept through production.
• Drive control strategy across interacting power stages.
• Define digital control execution requirements.
• Lead system-level stability analysis and performance closure.
• Establish validation methodology and acceptance criteria.
• Lead complex root-cause investigations across hardware, firmware, sensing, and protection.
• Drive control-related risk assessment and mitigation planning.
• Ensure control solutions scale across product variants and future platforms.
• Influence system-level trade-offs across topology, sensing, control, and cost.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing and deploying digital control for power converters in commercial or industrial applications.
• Demonstrated ownership of control architecture or system-level dynamic performance in complex power conversion systems.
• Strong expertise in advanced converter control, including resonant, multilevel, or other high-performance topologies.
• Deep command of control theory, including multi-loop stability analysis, loop interaction mitigation, nonlinear system behavior, and dynamic modeling.
• Proven experience implementing and guiding high-performance real-time digital control on embedded platforms (DSP/MCU/SoC).
• Strong proficiency in embedded C.
• Extensive hands-on laboratory experience debugging high-power systems and leading system-level validation.

Nice to have

• Experience with solid-state transformer (SST) architectures or tightly integrated multi-stage AC-DC/DC-DC systems
• Exposure to medium-voltage power electronics systems
• Experience with multilevel or modular converter architectures
• Experience with bidirectional power flow control
• Experience supporting products from R&D through production release
• Experience contributing to patents or novel control techniques

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and dependents
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

About the company

Amperesand is building hardware and software to rewrite power infrastructure for modern energy needs. The company builds intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products using advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research.