First Order Effects

First Order Effects

Power Electronics Engineer

Austin

No sponsorship$100k-$250kDetected 3 days ago
CybersecurityEMI/EMCPower Electronics

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About the role

  • Take converters from schematic and simulation through prototype, bring-up, and test under real load.
  • Define the control approach for the power stage, working shoulder to shoulder with firmware on the loops.

Responsibilities

  • Drive power electronics design across the full cycle, carrying converters all the way to working hardware.
  • Get hands-on with switching design in MOSFET, GaN, or SiC, including gate drive and magnetics.
  • Work the bench with scopes, probes, and power analyzers, debugging your own boards.
  • Design from first-principles.
  • Own component selection, protection, and safety margins, and lead the design and selection of power electronics.
  • Architect and design the in-house inverter and DC/DC stages for MESH: topology, device selection across MOSFET, GaN, and SiC, gate drive, magnetics, and thermal.
  • Design for the field: efficiency, EMI, ruggedization, and thermal survival in maritime and expeditionary conditions.
  • Sovereignty is built, not declared - come build it with us.

Requirements

  • Experience with converters from kilowatts to hundreds of kilowatts, battery inverters, or grid-forming and grid-tied systems.
  • Familiarity with UL, IEEE, or MIL power standards.
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations (ITAR/EAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
  • Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
  • active clearance not required.
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations (ITAR/EAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
  • Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; active clearance not required.

Compensation

  • $100,000-$250,000 base + founding-team equity sized for the role + benefits. If you're an outlier, we'll pay like it.

Company info

  • First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them. That's what we build.
  • Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy. Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production. We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.
  • First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era.
  • Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them.
  • That's what we build.
  • Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy.
  • Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production.
  • We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.

Equal opportunity

  • FOE is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Visa & Work Authorization

  • citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U
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