Pulsed Power Engineer

• Maintain excellent safety environment and complete all safety training on time.
• Design and implement high voltage pulsed power components, test fixtures, and assemblies that are manufacturable, professional, and commercially applicable.
• Test high voltage pulsed power components and systems safely and effectively.
• Participate in engineering development process including conducting design reviews, and team/project meetings.
• Follow established development processes and workflows and use industry best practices.
• Participate in Review and Planning (R&P) activities supporting company, team, and personal periodic milestones and goals, and have regular 1:1 discussions with manager.
• Communicate effectively using various tools including email, Slack, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Office.

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Applied Physics or similar
• 7-10 years experience with Pulsed Power/High Voltage Electronics design and testing
• Experienced with high voltage pulsed power systems (20kV+, 100kA+, 10’s ns – 100us’s) and architectures including marx generators, LTD, high energy capacitor banks
• Familiar with typical pulsed power components such as spark gap switches, thyristors, capacitors,
• Understands pulsed power diagnostics such as rogowskis, high voltage probes, b-dot / magnetic probes
• Familiar with 3D FEA modeling tools for Electrostatic, transient dynamic, and circuit modeling
• Experienced with high voltage safety equipment and procedures such as safing capacitor banks, discharge and grounding sticks, high voltage energy dump systems
• Enjoys working in the lab, has good lab housekeeping habits, comfortable developing, assembling, and using test fixtures for high voltage systems
• Knowledgeable in various insulating systems including vacuum, pressurized insulating gas like SF6, breakdown in air, and insulating materials like polymers and ceramics
• Experienced with hi-potting and high voltage power supplies
• Good communication skills developing project plans and providing status and reporting to management and stakeholders
• Strong testing and troubleshooting skills. Competent with typical electronics bench tools such as oscilloscopes, probes, signal generators, power supplies, impedance analyzers
• Decent soldering and rework skills

• Familiar with PCB development and tools such as Altium or KiCad, PCB manufacturing, and PCB testing
• Experience with control systems
• Programming in Python, C, or NI Labview
• Familiar with power electronics and switch mode power supplies
• Experienced using solid modeling tools like Solidworks

• 12%- 25% (Once every 4-8 weeks) to headquarters in Seattle and various other locations for vendor visits, professional conferences, and similar

• Competitive salary and benefits  
• Premium medical / dental / vision insurance  
• Flexible vacation and paid company holidays  

Last updated on Sep 6, 2024