Senior Electrical Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Workplace: On-site, 5 days per week
Location: Mountain View, CA
Salary: $130-150k

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for the full product development lifecycle of power electronics systems that recast day-to-day energy use in homes and on the go. We are looking for people with a passion to create a more sustainable future and the skills to make that vision a reality. 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 here are hands-on comfortable with both simulation and real hardware, and able to carry product development from concept stage through high-volume production.
We were 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.

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.

Required Qualifications
• 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.

Salary Range
• $130,000 - 150,000
• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

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