Senior Transformer Design Engineer (Electrical) (Pittsburgh)

⚡ Senior Transformer Design Engineer (Electrical) | Pittsburgh | Up to $190k + Equity

I'm looking for a seriously strong Transformer Design Engineer to join a venture-backed startup building new American manufacturing capacity for critical electrical equipment.

This is not your typical engineering role.

You'll be joining at the founding stage, working directly with the founder and experienced industry advisors to take a new transformer product family from initial design through testing, certification and into full production.

The business is funded, the first product family is defined, and they're now building out their engineering and manufacturing capability in Pittsburgh.

We want an engineer who can:

• Take genuine ownership of transformer electrical design, not just equipment selection or specification

• Design transformers, reactors or similar wound magnetic equipment, with strong knowledge of cores, coils, windings and insulation systems

• Work confidently across electromagnetic design, impedance, losses, short-circuit forces, dielectric performance and thermal behaviour

• Develop detailed engineering calculations from first principles, using FEA or equivalent design tools where appropriate

• Understand high-voltage insulation, dielectric withstand, impulse testing, partial discharge and temperature-rise requirements

• Design to relevant IEEE, UL and federal transformer efficiency standards

• Take designs through prototype development, type testing, certification and manufacturing release

• Work closely with winding teams, manufacturing, equipment vendors and material suppliers to make sure designs can actually be built

• Help shape and grow the engineering function as the business scales

This is a founding-team opportunity with genuine technical ownership.

We're particularly interested in engineers with 5+ years of hands-on transformer or wound magnetic equipment design experience .

You might currently be a Transformer Design Engineer, Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Product Design Engineer or Power Transformer Engineer.

Your title isn't particularly important.

What matters is that you've actually designed the equipment itself.

We want someone who understands core and coil design, winding arrangements, insulation, electromagnetic calculations, thermal performance and the engineering decisions that go into producing a reliable transformer.

Experience with transformer manufacturing, coil winding, FEA, IEEE/UL standards, new product development or third-party certification would be particularly valuable.

Most importantly, we want a builder.

Someone who wants to see what they design actually being wound, assembled, tested and shipped from a factory floor.

No sitting purely behind specifications. No simply selecting transformers for a wider electrical system. No designing something and throwing it over the wall to manufacturing.

You'll have genuine ownership from the initial engineering through to the finished product.

And while this is a hands-on role initially, there's real opportunity to develop into broader technical leadership and help build the engineering team as the company grows.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

$140,000 to $190,000 base

Meaningful founding-team equity

⚡ Transformer Design | Core & Coil | Wound Magnetics

Product Design Through to Manufacturing

Relocation support considered

If you've spent your career designing transformers or similar electrical equipment and want the opportunity to help build something from the ground up, I'd love to hear from you.

Equally, if somebody brilliant comes to mind, tag them or send this their way.

We offer a $2,000 referral fee for a successful placement!

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