# Senior Manager, Power Electronics and Power Conversion

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril is seeking a Senior Manager, Power Electronics and Power Conversion, to oversee power electronics and power conversion programs from concept through production. The ideal candidate will guide the development of motor controllers, DC-DC converters, AC-DC rectifiers, and smart power distribution systems for defense platforms.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead Programs & Architecture: Oversee power electronics and power conversion programs from concept through production.

- Project Management: Create, maintain, and communicate detailed product development schedules.

- System Design: Design high-reliability, efficient, power-dense, thermally optimized, and fault-tolerant power system architectures.

- HIL & System Verification: Verify power system performance, efficiency, thermal margins, transient responses, and protection features.

- Hardware Evaluation: Utilize advanced evaluation methodologies, including automated efficiency mapping and thermal imaging.

- Full-Cycle PCB & LRU Design: Drive high-power PCB and Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) design.

- Cabling & Interconnects: Develop power distribution interconnect diagrams and define high-voltage/high-current cabling.

- Supply Chain & Vendor Collaboration: Manage successful fabrication, assembly, and BOMs for power hardware.

- Vendor Relations: Maintain familiarity with aerospace/automotive-grade power electronics component suppliers and manufacturers.

- Platform Integration: Integrate power electronics into UAVs, UGVs, or maritime systems.

- Firmware Support: Support software and firmware teams in developing digital control loops.

- Trade-Off Studies: Represent the power subsystem in platform-level, cross-disciplinary trade-off studies.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or equivalent.

- 7+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex power electronics circuits.

- Deep understanding of power quality and EMI standards, specifically MIL-STD-704 and MIL-STD-461.

- Competence with high-power test equipment such as high-voltage power supplies and power analyzers.

- Practical experience in design for EMI mitigation and low-parasitic layouts.

- Familiarity with standard interfaces used in power systems (CAN, PMBus, I2C, SPI, RS-485).

- Familiarity with DSPs, microcontrollers, or FPGAs commonly used for digital control of power supplies.

- Proficiency with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation (EDA) design tools.

- Experience with power simulation tools such as PLECS, LTspice, MATLAB/Simulink, or Simplis.

- Knowledgeable in Python (for test automation) and C/C++ (for firmware understanding/debugging).

- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Advanced Education: Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Power Electronics.

- Experience with wide-bandgap (SiC, GaN) semiconductor technology and high-voltage safety design practices.

- Familiarity with DO-160, DO-254, and DO-311A.

**Benefits:** Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

**Salary Range:** $191,000-$253,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Power Electronics
- Electrical Engineering
- MIL-STD-704
- MIL-STD-461
- Altium Designer
- PLECS
- LTspice
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Python
- C/C++

### Nice to have
- Wide-bandgap semiconductor technology
- High-voltage safety design practices
- DO-160
- DO-254
- DO-311A

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