Senior Power Systems Engineer

Title: Senior Power Systems Engineer

Duration: Permanent / Contract to FTE

Location: Portland, OR

NOTE - This position is focused on hardware power electronics engineering, not software engineering.

This is a hands-on hardware power electronics role. The ideal candidate should have experience with:

• AC/DC and DC/DC power conversion
• Battery and charging systems
• Power supply integration
• EMI/EMC filter design
• PCB development
• Thermal management
• Laboratory testing and validation

The Senior Power Systems Engineer leads the development, validation, and evolution of battery and power supply systems for mobile medical workstations. The role focuses on advancing next generation power architectures, improving vendor performance and accountability, and enabling faster, higher-confidence product development. This is a hands-on engineering role working across battery systems, power supplies, thermal design, and validation. The objective of this role is to advance medical and pharmaceutical product power system capabilities, drive innovation, improve development cycle times, and reduce internal test burden by improving supplier accountability and validation efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Define and develop next-generation power systems, including battery and power supply platforms.
• Evaluate architectures to improve performance, charging speed, reliability, and cost.
• Lead technical evaluation and qualification of battery and power supply vendors.
• Develop structured scoring and comparison methods for supplier performance.
• Act as the primary engineering interface with suppliers.
• Define validation strategies and acceptance criteria for vendor systems.
• Improve test throughput by shifting validation responsibility to suppliers.
• Analyze and improve thermal performance of high-power systems.
• Support passive and active thermal design strategies.
• Collaborate with mechanical and software engineering teams.
• Enable effective communication across distributed teams executive leadership
• Identify emerging technologies and contribute to system roadmaps.
• Apply project management best practices to plan and execute power system development projects, track deliverables, manage technical risks, and coordinate cross-functional activities.
• Cooperatively provides hands-on job function training to co-workers as needed.
• Must understand and comply with Safety, 5S, ISO, and other corporate programs, initiatives and procedures.
• Dependable and consistent attendance is critical for team performance and productivity.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field is required.
• 12+ years of experience in power electronics, battery systems, or similar required.
• Experience with lithium battery systems (prismatic and cylindrical).
• Experience with AC/DC, DC/DC, and charging systems.
• Hands-on lab experience includes prototyping and validation.
• Experience working with external vendors.
• Strong understanding of thermal management.
• Experience with PCB design.
• Experience supporting product certification and compliance activities for medical or other regulated electronic products
• Strong attention to detail and structured testing approach.
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). Familiarity with ERP system preferred.

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