Senior Battery Electronics Engineer
Torrance, 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 Battery Electronics Engineer, reporting to the Senior VP of Engineering Projects, to support the development of the Avionics and Power systems for their artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
Functions
- End-to-end ownership of battery and battery management system 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 battery voltage/current sensing, charge balancing, disconnect relays, galvanic isolation, and fault detection
- Development of battery models for electronic simulation and system modeling and battery state-of-charge estimation algorithms
- Perform failure modes and effects analyses and drive reliability design and validation plans at the system level
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar
- 5+ years of experience in battery development
Preferred Skills
- 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
