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Senior Manager – Power Electronics

Senior Manager – Power Electronics

CompanyVAST
LocationLong Beach, CA, USA
Salary$170000 – $205800
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline
  • 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