Amperesand
Staff Power Electronics Control Engineer
$175K–$310K
Reno, Nevada, United States +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 3, 2026
- Location
- Reno, Nevada, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Reno, Nevada, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years designing and deploying digital control for power converters in commercial or industrial applications.
- Education
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
About the job
Leads control architecture, system behavior, and performance validation for AC-DC and DC-DC power conversion platforms from concept through production.
What you'll do
- Own control architecture and dynamic performance, including stability, transient response, robustness, and efficiency.
- Lead control strategy, real-time implementation requirements, system validation, and cross-domain root-cause investigations.
- Set technical direction, manage control-related risks and trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience, with specialization in power electronics and control systems.
- 5+ years designing and deploying digital control for commercial or industrial power converters.
- Expertise in advanced converter control and control theory, including stability analysis and dynamic modeling.
- Experience guiding embedded real-time digital control; strong proficiency in embedded C and hands-on high-power lab validation.
Nice to have
- Experience with solid-state transformer (SST) architectures or tightly integrated multi-stage AC-DC/DC-DC systems.
- Exposure to medium-voltage systems, multilevel or modular converters, bidirectional power flow, production release, or patents.
Pay
$175,000-$310,000/annual (base salary)
Tools
AC-DC, DC-DC, embedded C, DSP, MCU, SoC
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