Electrical Engineer - ATE (Contractor)

Electrical Engineer - ATE (Contractor)

Location: Mountain View, CA

About Lunar Energy

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We're a fast-growing, global company building the world's best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

About the Role

Electronics Engineers at Lunar are responsible for the full product development lifecycle of power electronics systems that recast day-to-day energy use in homes and on the go. An ideal candidate is enthusiastic and ready to collaborate with a dedicated, cross-functional team to create innovative, best-in-class products starting with home energy storage systems. Engineers at Lunar are hands-on comfortable with both simulation and real hardware, and able to carry product development from concept stage through high-volume production.

Responsibilities

• Create the best possible products by contributing to product level features, design, and vision by leveraging your experience and creativity
• Detail-level design of numerous tester interface boards ranging from IOT devices, power electronic systems, DC/DC converters, and inverters
• Bring up and testing of systems to validate functionality, optimize performance, and evaluate critical characteristics
• Collaborate to create efficient test and validation mechanisms for the individual PCBAs as well as the complete system and support of the development of custom test cards and apparatus
• Work with the ME cross functional team on a bed of nails fixture
• Work across functions such as mechanical, thermal, reliability, and firmware engineering to optimize the product
• Start-to-finish ownership of the electrical aspect of the system from design through prototype, validation and manufacturing
• Good debugging and troubleshooting skills down to the component level

Desired Skills

• BS in Electrical Engineering with 3 years experience in power electronics design
• Experience with battery management systems, inverters, charge systems etc
• Proficient with Altium Designer schematic capture and PCB layout. Experience working with PCB fab and assembly houses
• Strong lab skills with working knowledge of the tools and techniques for power conversion test and analysis (e.g., use of oscilloscopes, impedance analyzers, sources, and loads in an environment with both high voltages and currents, and high common-mode and differential-mode noise)
• Working with high voltage, current, and power
• Skilled at prototyping and rework - conduction and hot air soldering, paste application, flux application and cleaning, etc
• Familiarity with embedded control and application and programming of microcontrollers, PLDs and the like
• Analog circuit design including op-amps, stability analysis, power supply design both linear and switching design
• Mixed-signal design with emphasis on noise analysis and grounding techniques

Compensation

The hourly range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is $43–$67 USD.

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package & benefits, will be at the company's sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.

Diversity & Inclusion

Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.