Power Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Position Title: Power Electrical Engineer - Power Design & Board Bring-Up

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity located in Redmond, WA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define the board power architecture: rail planning, budgeting, sequencing, and power-state/mode design for FPGA/SoC, memory, and peripheral loads.
• Design DC-DC converters (buck/multiphase), LDOs, load switches; select components and run margin/derating analysis.
• Design and analyze the power distribution network.
• Own power sequencing and supervision.
• Own power bring-up in the lab.
• Debug and characterize supplies using power analyzers, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, and thermal tools.
• Write and execute power test plans across voltage and temperature; document results and drive root-cause of power-related failures.
• Contribute to manufacturing readiness: DFM/DFT for power circuits, bring-up procedures, and test documentation.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) and hands-on power/hardware design experience. 5+ years of industry experience designing hardware.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-rail board power design from schematic through bring-up and characterization.
• Strong fundamentals in switching and linear regulator design, magnetics selection, and control-loop/stability basics.
• Practical PDN and power-integrity experience.
• Experience with power sequencing, supervisors, load switches, inrush, UVLO/OVP/OCP protection.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design using Xpedition or similar EDM tools (e.g. Siemens Xpedition/EDM, Cadence, Altium).
• Hands-on lab proficiency: power analyzers, electronic loads, oscilloscope, DMM, and a structured debug methodology.
• Ability to read datasheets and device power specs and turn them into a correct, robust power tree.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Power delivery for FPGAs/SoCs including core, transceiver-analog, and memory rails.
• Power-integrity simulation experience (Sigrity/PowerSI, HyperLynx, ANSYS, or similar).
• Battery/solar or spacecraft power-system exposure; radiation-aware or high-reliability power design.
• Thermal analysis and co-design with mechanical teams.
• Scripting for test automation and data analysis (Python or similar).

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: Redmond, WA.
• Pay Rate Range: $60-90/hr.
• Due to government contract requirements, this position is restricted to U.S. Citizens only.

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation - from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We're passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.


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