# Senior Power Electronics Engineer

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Washington, DC, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Senior Power Electronics Engineer, you will own the battery and power distribution board for a next-generation loitering munition system being developed for the U.S. Army.

You will select the vehicle battery, design circuitry for battery management, charging, power distribution, and protection.

You will carry those designs through qualification against the vehicle’s power requirements.

The battery and board must supply the vehicle’s flight controls, sensors, and other hardware throughout the mission.

You will be the power system’s technical expert across the vehicle, working with systems engineers who manage the vehicle’s size, weight, and power configuration.

You will supply power analysis for the vehicle budget, define the power interface for its components, and show how a change to one component affects power available to the rest of the vehicle.

You will also work with logistics colleagues to understand supplier options for batteries and power components.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, based in Washington, DC, with a hybrid work arrangement.

## Responsibilities

- Select a vehicle battery that fits power needs, weight limits, and integration constraints.

- Design battery management and charging circuitry for the vehicle power system.

- Design the power distribution board, including distribution and protection circuits.

- Define each component’s power interface with the hardware team that owns it.

- Provide power analysis to systems engineers managing the vehicle budget and its size, weight, and power configuration.

- Plan and carry out bench and ground tests to qualify battery and power distribution hardware under expected operating conditions.

- Design for electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC), then support related testing.

- Support field operations when power-system hardware needs integration or troubleshooting.

- Assess the technical fit of supplier options with logistics colleagues.

- Work with mechanical and manufacturing engineers to integrate the battery and distribution board into the vehicle.

## Requirements

- Have at least ten years of experience designing power electronics or electrical hardware.

- Have experience with battery selection and battery management design for integrated hardware.

- Have designed charging and power distribution circuitry, including protection functions.

- Have taken a power distribution board from design through hardware test.

- Can analyze electrical loads and component interfaces to support a vehicle power budget.

- Have qualified battery or power distribution hardware against vehicle requirements.

- Can work with hardware teams and systems engineers to make clear technical decisions across interfaces.

- Have hands-on soldering experience with electronic components or boards.

- Have experience with EMI/EMC testing and designs that protect circuits from interference.

- Are a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

## Benefits

- A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking

- A generous compensation and benefits package (in addition to base salary) that includes, but may not be limited to, insurance coverage (medical and travel), flexible paid time off, paid holidays, and remote and/or hybrid work available depending on position.

## Skills

### Required
- power electronics
- electrical hardware
- battery selection
- battery management
- charging circuitry
- power distribution
- EMI/EMC testing
- soldering

### Nice to have
- fifteen or more years of relevant power electronics experience
- worked on power systems for uncrewed aircraft or loitering munitions
- evaluated battery or power-component options with a logistics or supply team
- hands-on circuit design experience with components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits

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