Senior Staff Electrical Engineer - BMS

Within 3 months:

• Learn about the BMS and aircraft electronics architecture and existing hardware/firmware
• Design and develop the power control, monitoring and conversion system to produce regulated, isolated high and low voltage from the batteries
• Construct and publish Circuit Block Diagrams to describe the architecture of the Battery Management System (BMS)
• Become a reviewer of electrical design releases, assembly procedures, rework plans, and test results

Within 6 months:

• Work in Altium to revise and improve the electrical circuits and subsystems while producing documentation for fabrication and assembly vendors
• Perform component selection and qualification for the BMS and power distribution system
• Support certification compliance testing, test witnessing, safety analysis, and documentation of electrical hardware
• Lead board level and sub-system level troubleshooting and failure mode analysis
• Contribute to writing requirements of new electrical systems, including design for manufacturing and design for testing.

Within 12 months:

• Evaluate options for improving future battery management systems and power distribution architecture
• Lead the effort to optimize weight savings throughout the ESPS electrical power, protection and distribution system
• Be the focal point for aviation regulators (FAA, EASA, Etc) conversations on technical issue resolution with the High Voltage Battery System

What you have done:

• B.S. in a relevant engineering discipline with at least 10 years of experience with the tasks listed above (M.S or PhD count towards years of experience)
• Experience with development, design, analysis and test of: Analog Sensor Interfaces, Power Supplies, Topology Selection, and Microprocessor Integration for High Voltage Battery and power distribution systems
• Experience in a rigorous development, verification, documentation environment similar to aerospace DO-254 is a plus.

Desired:

• Design knowledge of electrical bonding criteria, thermal cooling requirements for electronic equipment, EMI shielding, and High Intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) / Indirect Effects of Lightning (IEL) installation criteria is considered a plus
• Understanding of and experience with designing and testing to Environmental Standards RTCA DO-160 (or equivalent MIL-Specs or Automotive standards)

Who you are:

• You are a highly motivated, self starting individual with a broad set of skills and never afraid of facing complex technical challenges
• You are a solution oriented individual with a strong analytical mindset
• You have strong communication skills and can easily tailor your communications to suit the audience
• You can adapt quickly or propose changes needed to achieve early results in a timely fashion
• You embrace challenges and take commitments and deliver results within reasonable expectations
• You are a positive team player