Electrical Engineer (Senior/Staff), Power Systems Verified today

Your Mission

As a Staff Power Engineer at True Anomaly, you will be a senior technical leader on the Power team, owning the design, analysis, and performance of spacecraft electrical power subsystems across multiple programs. You will drive power architecture decisions from solar arrays and energy storage through distribution and protection, and serve as the technical authority ensuring our power systems meet the demanding reliability and performance requirements of operational space missions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of spacecraft electrical power systems, including solar arrays, battery systems, power distribution units, and protection circuits
• Own power architecture trades and drive technical decisions balancing performance, mass, thermal, radiation tolerance, cost, and schedule
• Lead preliminary and critical design reviews (PDR/CDR) for power subsystems, ensuring designs meet program and customer requirements
• Develop and maintain spacecraft power budgets, including generation, storage, distribution, and load analyses across all mission phases from launch through end-of-life
• Perform power system modeling and simulation including on-orbit power generation, eclipse cycling, battery state-of-charge, and transient load analysis
• Design and analyze power conversion and regulation circuits, including DC/DC converters, peak power tracking, charge controllers, and fault protection schemes
• Conduct and review derating analysis and worst-case circuit analysis for power electronics in accordance with EEE-INST-002 and applicable standards
• Perform radiation and reliability analyses for power system components, identifying risks and driving design mitigations for the orbital radiation environment
• Define validation approaches and create development and qualification testing campaigns to exercise power system designs to their limits and ensure reliable hardware
• Develop electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) for power system testing and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation
• Support environmental testing campaigns including EMI/EMC, thermal vacuum, and vibration testing of power subsystem hardware
• Collaborate with avionics, systems engineering, software, and propulsion teams to ensure seamless spacecraft integration of power systems
• Develop and maintain documentation for power systems, including design specifications, interface control documents, test plans, and operating procedures
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers on the Power team, raising the team's design capabilities and technical rigor
• Continuously improve power engineering processes and practices to drive innovation and efficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field (Master's degree preferred)
• 12+ years of experience in spacecraft power systems design and development
• Demonstrated expertise in spacecraft power architecture, solar arrays, battery systems, and power distribution and regulation
• Deep knowledge of power system modeling and analysis tools; experience with MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent
• Strong understanding of radiation effects, reliability engineering, and design for space mission success
• Experience with power electronics design, including DC/DC converters and power management circuits
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools
• Experience leading design reviews and defining test and validation strategies
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across multi-disciplinary teams
• Active or ability to obtain a Secret security clearance