Staff Hardware Validation Engineer

The role

You will own the validation of power electronics for solid-state transformers. You will lead the validation strategy, design test systems, and perform root cause analysis for hardware subsystems.

What you will do

• Serve as technical validation lead for an assigned SST subsystem
• Design, develop, and maintain test systems for high-voltage, high-current power electronics
• Characterize and validate electrical, thermal, and performance behavior of products
• Own and automate the regression suite for the subsystem
• Trace product requirements to tests and identify coverage gaps
• Drive root cause analysis on failures and field escapes
• Define manufacturing test specifications for volume production
• Innovate test system design for accuracy, cost, and safety
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, magnetics, mechanical, and systems teams
• Mentor engineers and technicians on high-voltage practice and debug methodology

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in test, validation, or integration engineering with power electronics
• Demonstrated ownership of a product or subsystem through a full validation cycle
• Deep understanding of power electronics principles
• Strong hands-on high-voltage lab skills
• Experience with PCBA schematics and debugging hardware to the component level
• Fluency with oscilloscopes, high-voltage differential probes, current shunts, and Rogowski coils
• Fluency with power analyzers, multimeters, dielectric withstand testers, and thermal instrumentation

Nice to have

• Experience with grid-tied inverters and active front ends, or DC fast charging
• Familiarity with partial discharge, dielectric withstand, and insulation coordination standards
• SiC or GaN device characterization
• EMC pre-compliance testing
• Grounding and shielding design for fast-switching systems
• HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, or reliability engineering exposure
• Experience using Golang, Rust, C, C++, or Python

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 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 medium voltage Solid State Transformer research.