Role Summary

In this role, you will lead the control architecture and system behavior of advanced AC-DC and DC-DC power conversion platforms across low- and medium-voltage applications. You will define and drive control strategies for complex converter topologies, including multilevel and resonant systems. As a Staff engineer, you will own system-level control decisions, set technical direction across programs, and ensure performance targets are achieved from concept through production. You will work across modeling, digital control development, embedded implementation, hardware integration, and validation to deliver robust, scalable, high-performance power conversion solutions. You will also mentor engineers and raise the technical standard of the control organization

Responsibilities:

• Own control architecture for advanced power conversion systems across AC-DC and DC-DC platforms.

• Own system-level dynamic performance (stability, bandwidth, transient response, robustness, efficiency) from concept through production.

• Drive control strategy across interacting power stages and ensure stable operation under all operating conditions.

• Define digital control execution requirements and ensure real-time implementation meets system performance targets.

• Lead system-level stability analysis and performance closure under aggressive development timelines.

• Establish validation methodology and acceptance criteria, including frequency response, transient testing, and fault handling robustness.

• Lead complex root-cause investigations across hardware, firmware, sensing, and protection domains.

• Drive control-related risk assessment (DFMEA) and mitigation planning across development programs.

• Ensure control solutions scale across product variants and future platforms.

• Influence system-level trade-offs across topology, sensing, control strategy, performance, cost, and power density.

• Elevate control engineering standards through rigorous design reviews, modeling discipline, and mentorship.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience with strong specialization in power electronics and control systems.

• 5+ years of experience designing and deploying digital control for power converters in commercial or industrial applications.

• Demonstrated ownership of control architecture or system-level dynamic performance in complex power conversion systems (e.g., multi-stage, high-power, grid-connected, or modular platforms).

• Strong expertise in advanced converter control, including resonant, multilevel, or other high-performance topologies across isolated and non-isolated systems.

• Experience with solid-state transformer (SST) architectures or tightly integrated multi-stage AC-DC/DC-DC systems is strongly preferred.

• Deep command of control theory, including multi-loop stability analysis, loop interaction mitigation, nonlinear system behavior, and dynamic modeling.

• Proven experience implementing and guiding high-performance real-time digital control on embedded platforms (DSP/MCU/SoC).

• Strong proficiency in embedded C and ability to review and influence real-time control implementation decisions.

• Extensive hands-on laboratory experience debugging high-power systems and leading system-level validation and performance closure.

• Demonstrated ability to independently resolve complex, cross-domain technical challenges and drive cross-functional trade-off decisions.

Bonus Qualifications: 

• Exposure to medium-voltage power electronics systems.

• Experience with multilevel or modular converter architectures.

• Experience with bidirectional power flow control.

• Experience supporting products from R&D through production release.

• Experience contributing to patents or novel control techniques.

Role Summary 

We are seeking a technically sharp and strategically minded Staff Patent Engineer to join our team, focused on protecting and advancing our intellectual property portfolio in medium voltage solid-state transformer (SST) technology. In this role, you will serve as a senior IP leader at the intersection of cutting-edge power electronics engineering and patent strategy, driving innovation identification, portfolio development, and IP governance in close collaboration with R&D leaders, product teams, and legal counsel. 

Responsibilites 

• Lead patentability strategy for our medium voltage Solid State Transformer product portfolio, working directly with R&D and product teams to identify and protect breakthrough innovations. 

• Own end-to-end invention disclosure development — from engineering conversations to submission-ready disclosures — and manage prosecution activities in close coordination with outside patent counsel. 

• Conduct prior art searches and provide expert patentability assessments for new inventions spanning power conversion topologies, control algorithms, magnetics, thermal management, and grid integration. 

• Define and execute a long-range IP portfolio strategy aligned to our SST product roadmap and business objectives. 

• Monitor the competitive patent landscape across medium voltage power electronics and SST-adjacent technologies to inform R&D and product strategy. 

• Mentor engineers across the organization on invention identification, disclosure best practices, and IP awareness to build a strong innovation culture. 

• Serve as the primary IP interface between engineering teams, business development, and legal counsel throughout the product lifecycle. 

• Support international patent filing strategies (PCT, EPO) in coordination with outside counsel. 

Qualifications 

• Technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related field; Master's or Ph.D. strongly preferred. 

• 5–8 years of experience in power electronics engineering, with solid expertise in medium voltage systems, solid-state transformers, or advanced converter technologies. 

• Proven track record of building and managing IP portfolios in a complex, fast-moving technology domain. 

• Strong working knowledge of power semiconductor devices (IGBTs, SiC MOSFETs), converter topologies (DAB, resonant converters, multilevel), and grid-connected applications. 

• Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, and strategically evaluate patent claims and technical literature. 

• USPTO registration as a Patent Agent or Patent Attorney strongly preferred. 

• Experience using patent search and analytics platforms (Derwent, PatSnap, Espacenet, or similar). 

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action and the ability to drive IP initiatives with a high degree of ownership. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to translate complex engineering concepts into clear, strategically sound patent language. 

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10%, including internationally. 

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options. 

Salary: $170,000-$210,000/annual DOE and location

Responsibilities:

• Lead next-generation power conversion system design for Solid State Transformer systems, including topology optimization, device selection, magnetics, and controls. 

• Own design execution and timelines while leveraging and mentoring a team of electrical engineers. 

• Develop frameworks for work breakdown, requirements decomposition, and design acceptance criteria. 

• Drive best-in-class solutions that balance efficiency, cost, safety, reliability, and customer use-case needs. 

• Lead simulation and optimization of power conversion approaches, ranking alternatives based on customer impact and key figures of merit. 

• Collaborate with mechanical and electrical teams to advance power electronics packaging solutions. 

• Own EMC and compliance considerations by integrating them into architecture, requirements, and risk management processes. 

• Lead advanced controls development to unlock optimized performance for our products. 

• Define and track power electronics technical requirements throughout program lifecycles. 

• Lead complex root-cause investigations across hardware, firmware, sensing, and protection domains. 

Qualifications:

• Technical degree or equivalent experience in power electronics design and architecture. 

• 8+ years of experience in power conversion design, including at least 2 years of technical leadership mentoring 3+ engineers. 

• Proven track record of delivering industry-leading power conversion solutions, including at least one shipped high-volume PCBA. 

• Demonstrated expertise in simulation-driven design and figure-of-merit evaluation across topology, controls, devices, and magnetics. 

• Strong knowledge of EMC, high-voltage compliance, and functional safety. 

• Extensive experience collaborating with Sales, Design Engineering, Supply Chain, Applications, and Compliance teams to deliver harmonized customer solutions. 

• Evidence of delivering both strategic and tactical power electronics solutions. 

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward informed action and the ability to lead new initiatives with limited resources. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. 

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10%, including internationally

Responsibilities

• Design isolated and non-isolated converter stages using advanced topologies such as multi-level converters, cascaded H-bridges, Dual Active Bridge (DAB) and ensuring robust protection and safety compliance for MV/LV systems
• Perform trade-off analysis and optimization of power conversion hardware to balance between loss, cost and size across Semiconductors, Magnetics and Cooling components
• Design magnetics to meet applicable safety, isolation, and thermal standards
• Design and verify high-voltage isolation strategies using magnetically and optically isolated signal and power paths across LV-MV domains
• Use FEA simulations to design magnetics and guide high-power high-frequency PCBA designs
• Work in close coordination with mechanical designers, manufacturing and test engineers to own the complete development cycle
• Own the design validation of the magnetics components to validate performance targets, isolation requirements

Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Power Electronics, Electromagnetics or related field
• 4+ years' experience in magnetics design and in power conversion design
• Strong fundamentals in electromagnetics and material properties
• Experience working with SiC/GaN devices in high power density designs
• Good understanding of loss mechanisms in semiconductor devices and high-frequency magnetics
• Knowledge of Medium Voltage insulation coordination, hands-on experience with Hi-pot, Partial Discharge and Basic Impulse Test 
• Knowledge of EMI/EMC test Standards and Electrical Safety (IEC, UL) Standards.
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting simulation and test data to guide design revisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communications in English
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% including internationally

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for designing isolated and non-isolated converter stages, implementing advanced topologies such as multi-level converters, cascaded H-bridges, Dual Active Bridge (DAB) and ensuring robust protection and safety compliance for MV/LV systems.
• Perform trade-off analysis and optimization of power conversion hardware to balance between loss, cost and size across Semiconductors, Magnetics and Cooling components
• Develop modulation techniques and control algorithms to handle corner-case operation of modular power stages.
• Develop Static and Dynamic equivalent models for power stage hardware to support closed-loop control implementations.
• Design and verify high-voltage isolation strategies using magnetically and optically isolated signal and power paths across LV-MV domains.
• Use FEA simulations to design magnetics; guide high-power high-frequency PCBA designs.
• Work in close coordination with mechanical designers, manufacturing and test engineers to own the complete development cycle.

Qualifications:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Power Electronics, Electromagnetics or related field.
• 2+ years' experience in power conversion design.
• Strong fundamentals in power converter topologies, modulation techniques, and design trade-off analysis.
• Experience working with SiC/GaN devices in high-density designs.
• Good understanding of loss mechanisms in Semiconductor devices, Passive EE components and high-frequency magnetics
• Demonstrated expertise in simulation-driven design and figure-of-merit evaluation across topology, controls, devices, and magnetics.
• Knowledge of EMI/EMC test Standards and Electrical Safety (IEC, UL) Standards.
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting simulation and test data to guide design revisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communications in English
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% including internationally

Please note: This role requires working on-site 5 days a week. We do not offer hybrid or remote options. 

Salary: $175,000-$205,000/annual DOE and location

Role Summary

As our Senior Power Electronics Control Engineer you will focus on control and system behavior of advanced power converters, including AC-DC and DC-DC topologies, used across low-voltage and medium-voltage power conversion systems. The role emphasizes multilevel power converter architectures and resonant power conversions used in solid-state transformers (SST). You will work hands-on across control design, modeling, analysis, laboratory debugging, and validation, and collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and system engineers to bring robust power electronics solutions from concept through validation.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement digital control algorithms for advanced AC-DC and DC-DC power converters across low- and medium-voltage applications.

• Develop small-signal and large-signal models to support stability analysis, loop compensation, and transient optimization.

• Support development of control strategies for advanced power conversion stages, including multilevel or resonant topologies and AC-DC / DC-DC stage interactions.

• Implement real-time control algorithms on DSP/MCU/SoC platforms.

• Lead hands-on debugging and root-cause analysis across simulation, firmware integration, hardware bring-up, and lab testing.

• Collaborate with hardware and firmware teams to optimize sensing, protection, and control-loop performance.

• Support validation activities including loop stability measurement, transient response testing, and fault handling verification.

• Own complex control subsystems and contribute to system-level design under technical leadership.

Qualifications:

• Technical degree or equivalent industry experience in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, with a strong focus on power electronics and control systems.

• 3+ years of experience designing and deploying digital control for power converters, with demonstrated ability to own and execute complex technical tasks.

• Strong understanding of resonant power conversion principles and their control implications across isolated and non-isolated power converter architectures.

• Solid foundation in control theory, including loop compensation, stability margins, frequency-domain and time-domain analysis, and nonlinear system behavior.

• Proven experience implementing real-time control algorithms on embedded platforms.

• Hands-on laboratory experience debugging power converters.

• Ability to translate theoretical control concepts into practical, robust implementations.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to work through technically ambiguous challenges.

• Familiarity with modeling and simulation tools such as MATLAB/Simulink and PLECS.

• Proficiency in embedded C for real-time control implementation and debugging.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Exposure to medium-voltage power electronics systems.

• Exposure to bidirectional power conversion and power flow control.

• Experience supporting products from R&D through validation and deployment.