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Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

CompanyForm Energy
LocationBerkeley, CA, USA
Salary$170250 – $222270
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelExpert or higher

Requirements

  • 10+ years experience with experience in all phases of product development life cycle – preferred energy storage experience
  • Experience scaling up development efforts for electronics development, fabrication, and assembly processes
  • Ability to dive into technically complex problems, and provide roadmaps for execution
  • Influence design decisions and tradeoffs across the systems engineering organization
  • Background using and debugging industrial controls and serial communication protocols
  • Expert knowledge with embedded systems, high voltage isolation, and power conversion switching circuit designs
  • BSc or greater degree in electronics or electrical engineering

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex projects with software and hardware engineers to develop a battery management system (BMS) that coordinates functionality and safety responses
  • Take ownership of schematic capture, layout design, and release for various PCBAs
  • Lead technically challenging workstreams that align to critical program goals
  • Act a generalist solving some of the toughest cross functional design problems within our battery system
  • Expected to engage with and leverage test, reliability, manufacturing teams as needed
  • Lead RCA work across the organization for the electrical systems team
  • Drive interface definition via Interface Control Diagrams and Interface Requirements
  • Perform detailed engineering analysis such as circuit power draw, voltage protection, over-current protection, thermal load, cycle life, and component level FMEAs
  • Engage with the e-chem team, to understand electrical systems requirements and interaction between the electronics and battery chemistry
  • Support the new product introduction and manufacturing scale-up activities, including quality inspection requirements, root cause failure analysis, and test equipment development

Preferred Qualifications

  • Preferred energy storage experience