Senior Manager, Power Electronics
Long Beach, CA – Relocation Assistance Provided
The Company
Our client’s mission is to expand humanity’s frontier into the solar system and beyond. The next step on this journey is to enable manufacturing and habitation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Our client’s plan to make this a reality is to build artificial gravity space stations.
The Job
Our client is looking for a Senior Manager of Power Electronics, reporting to the VP of Avionics, to support the development of power electronics required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
Functions
- Lead team to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art power electronics tailored for extreme performance and reliability in demanding environments
- Recruit and empower a diverse team of engineers to develop on-vehicle components and sub-systems from initial requirements to vehicle installation
- This role is both managerial and technical, and you will have significant input, guidance, review, and oversight on your team’s work
- Exemplify a culture of excellence, extreme ownership, and safety. Enable engineers to take responsibility for the system level impact of their work.
- Negotiate between business and technical stakeholders to establish program requirements
- Develop a requirements management system making requirements accessible and discoverable
- Drive system level architecture trades to closure
- Develop and own the fault management strategy for the space station and subsystems
- Work with system disciplines to quantify system performance metrics and sensitivities to drive technical decisions using available modeling infrastructure
- Identify program level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience in electrical power electronics design, simulation, fabrication, and testing
- 3+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
Preferred Skills
- Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage.
- Familiarity with spacecraft electrical power electronics and knowledge of space environment effects.
- Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs.
- SIMPLIS/SIMextrix experience
Pay Range:
- Manager, Power Electronics: $150,000-$175,000
- Senior Manager, Power Electronics: $170,000-$205,800