# Power Electronics Engineering Manager

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$215,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As the Engineering Manager for the Power Electronics team, you will play a critical role in building and leading a team of Power Electronics engineers. You'll support the team in pushing the boundary of what is possible in a geo-synchronous spacecraft design and enable performance in space that has not been realized to date.

**Responsibilities**

- Directly manage and grow a team of junior and senior power engineers

- Collaborate with a broad and multidisciplinary team to define the spacecraft power requirements and architectures

- Oversee the design, build, and implementation of the power converters and systems

- Manage a detailed schedule to ensure that our power converters and systems development is in sync with the overall program schedule

- Drive power converter design, specification, component selection, circuit board design, implementation, verification, board bring-up, and debugging

- Support in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

- Support the production and mission operations teams on the build and in-flight use of our power converter hardware

- Drive the growth of the power team through recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-expanding team

**Requirements**

- B.S. or higher in electrical engineering, or similar technical degree

- 5+ years of professional experience with fast-paced product design cycles

- 5+ years of board level experience designing power electronics hardware from concept through production

- A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and test hardware from scratch

- Demonstrated ability to build and manage teams of engineers and communicate clearly with other disciplines

- US Citizenship or Green Card

**Bonus**

- Experience with photovoltaics

- Experience with Li-ion batteries and management systems

- Experience with magnetics in power electronics

- Radiation effects knowledge

**What we offer**

- Base salary: $160,000-$215,000 USD

- Equity package via incentive stock options

- High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- power electronics
- hardware development
- team management

### Nice to have
- photovoltaics
- Li-ion batteries
- magnetics in power electronics
- radiation effects knowledge

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