Power Electronics Design Engineer

Vast was founded to expand humanity's frontier into the solar system and beyond. We believe that the next step on that journey is enabling manufacturing and habitation in LEO. We are building artificial gravity space stations to make this a reality. If you want to join a team that builds amazing things with the most talented people on Earth, please reach out.

• End-to-end ownership of power distribution electronics specification, architecture, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, mechanical packaging design, board-level bring-up and validation, environmental qualification (vibration, thermal vacuum), and integrated system-level validation. 
• Design of circuits to implement functions such as load switching, hot-swapping, power conditioning, inrush control, over-current fault detection, and electronic release mechanisms.
• Development of space station power system harnessing and high-current interconnect solutions.
• Perform failure modes and effects analyses and drive reliability design and validation plans at the system level. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering, or other engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of experience in developing power electronics.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Ability to creatively solve problems and bring multiple disciplines together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions with incomplete data set
• Experience working in collegiate project teams (e.g. Formula SAE, Hybrid Electric Vehicle) and/or professional experience Professional experience with instrumentation and data acquisition (e.g. SPICE, SQL, and/or National Instruments hardware)
• Experience with software programming: Matlab, Python, C/C++, etc.
• Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, and I2C, as well as serial I/O (RS232/422/485)
• Experience with full-lifecycle product development
• Experience with designing electronics for spaceflight environment, verifying workmanship and operability through environmental test (random vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC)
• Strong sense of accountability and integrity with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive at an early-stage startup where you will have the opportunity to help create and optimize key systems and processes

Pay Range: 

• Power Electronics Design Engineer Level I: $90,000-$110,000
• Power Electronics Design Engineer Level II: $110,000-$145,000