Amperesand
Senior Electronics Design Engineer
Reno, Nevada, United States · Senior
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $143,666 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Electronics Engineers, Except Computer" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Company Overview Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
- Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth.
- Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources - including solar, gas, and batteries - at a massive scale.
Responsibilities
- Design low-voltage and mixed-signal circuits for SST products, balancing performance, reliability, safety, cost, and manufacturability.
- Design and validate control, sensing, and protection circuitry - including analog measurement chains, digital I/O, and fault detection.
- Design isolated interface circuits like signal isolators, isolated DC-DC, and fiber optics between different voltage domains.
- Build redundancy and fault tolerance into board designs to meet single-fault-tolerant and product-lifetime requirements
- Implement industrial and high-bandwidth communication interfaces (e.g., Gigabit Ethernet, CAN, Modbus) with attention to signal integrity.
- Partner with a dedicated PCB layout engineer. Define stackup, impedance, isolation, and routing constraints, review iterations, and execute layout directly when needed.
- Own full lifecycle development of PCBAs: specifications, schematics, BOM, prototyping, bring-up, EMI/EMC compliance, and release to production.
- Collaborate with firmware engineers on interface and timing definition, and with mechanical engineers on connector placement, thermal, and enclosure integration.
- Maintain documentation of requirements, design decisions, and release notes for traceability and compliance.
- Build redundancy and fault tolerance into board designs to meet single-fault-tolerant and product-lifetime requirements; contribute to DFMEA and derating reviews.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.
- 5+ years designing low-voltage and mixed-signal hardware, with at least some experience in high-reliability or high-voltage systems.
- Experience taking boards from schematic through bring-up and production, including MCU selection and protection circuitry.
- Experience designing isolated interface circuits between voltage domains.
- Hands-on experience with communication interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN/CAN-FD, or Modbus.
- Proficiency with PCB CAD and simulation tools (preferably Altium Designer, SPICE, and/or PLECS).
- Strong board bring-up, debugging, and lab testing skills, with working knowledge of EMI/EMC best practices.
- Solid analog and mixed-signal design skills, with knowledge of component selection and derating for harsh environments.
- Hands-on PCB layout experience sufficient to specify constraints, review layout, and execute layout directly when needed.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%, including internationally.
- Bonus Qualifications
- Exposure to functional safety (IEC 61508, ISO 13849) or HV design and certification standards (IEC 61800, UL 508C, IEC 62477).
Nice to have
- Shipped a PCBA in a high-volume product.
- Experience with high-reliability design for industrial, grid, or similar harsh-environment applications.
- Why Join Amperesand
- Work on next-generation power infrastructure systems
- High ownership and visibility
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Opportunity to shape future products and infrastructure
- Fast-moving startup environment
Compensation
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
Benefits
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
- Group medical, hospitalisation and surgical insurance, outpatient or GP coverage, group term life, dental and personal accident insurance
- Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
- Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
- Commuter Benefits
- 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)
Company info
- We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption.
- Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
- With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
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