Senior Electrical Engineer

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

Workplace: On-site 5 days per week
Location: Mountain View CA
Salary: $130-150k

As a Senior Electrical Engineer you will be responsible for the full product development lifecycle of power electronics systems that recast day-to-day energy use in homes and on the go. We are looking for people with a passion to create a more sustainable future and the skills to make that vision a reality. An ideal candidate is enthusiastic and ready to collaborate with a dedicated cross-functional team to create innovative best-in-class products starting with home energy storage systems. Engineers here are hands-on comfortable with both simulation and real hardware and able to carry product development from concept stage through high-volume production.
We were founded to transition homes to 100% clean energymaking our electricity greener our air cleaner and our energy more safe secure and reliable for all. Were a fast-growing global company building the worlds best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean resilient virtual power plants.

Responsibilities
Create the best possible products by contributing to product level features design and vision by leveraging your experience and creativity
Detail-level design of numerous tester interface boards ranging from IOT devices power electronic systems DC/DC converters and inverters.
Bring up and testing of systems to validate functionality optimize performance and evaluate critical characteristics
Collaborate to create efficient test and validation mechanisms for the individual PCBAs as well as the complete system and support of the development of custom test cards and apparatus
Work with the ME cross functional team on a bed of nails fixture.
Work across functions such as mechanical thermal reliability and firmware engineering to optimize the product
Start-to-finish ownership of the electrical aspect of the system from design through prototype validation and manufacturing
Good debugging and troubleshooting skills down to the component level.

Required Qualifications
BS in Electrical Engineering with 3 years experience in power electronics design
Experience with battery management systems inverters charge systems etc
Proficient with Altium Designer schematic capture and PCB layout. Experience working with PCB fab and assembly houses.
Strong lab skills with working knowledge of the tools and techniques for power conversion test and analysis (e.g. use of oscilloscopes impedance analyzers sources and loads in an environment with both high voltages and currents and high common mode and differential-mode noise)
Working with high voltage current and power
Skilled at prototyping and rework - conduction and hot air soldering paste application flux application and cleaning etc.
Familiarity with embedded control and application and programming of microcontrollers PLDs and the like
Analog circuit design including op-amps stability analysis power supply design both linear and switching design.
Mixed-signal design with emphasis on noise analysis and grounding techniques.

Salary Range
$130000 - 150000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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