Electrical Power Systems & Battery Engineer, Kepler

• 5+ years of post-undergrad electrical hardware design experience with a strong focus on battery system design and electrical power systems
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
• Experience in Lithium-ion battery pack construction sizing, balancing, protection, coulomb counting, and thermal management
• Strong understanding of power technologies including discrete and integrated switch mode power supplies
• Extensive experience in designing and executing qualification test plans for battery and power systems
• Strong communication skills and the ability to put together thorough design documentation
• Circuit and layout simulation experience (SPICE or comparable)
• Experience with or an understanding of the LEO environment for power electronics (e.g. radiation effects)
• Experience with one or more CAD tools (Altium, Allegro, KiCad, etc.)
• Understanding of PCB design principles for signal and power integrity as well as thermal management under vacuum
• Highly proficient in a lab environment and experience using standard tools such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, VNA’s, etc

Desirable

• We are on the hunt for a talented Electrical Engineer with a specialization in electrical power systems, a passion for emerging technology, likes to take on challenges, and would love to join Kepler’s Electrical team
• Design, develop, and support the electrical power systems for Kepler’s current and next generation of satellites including:
• Battery pack architecture and BMS including battery cell evaluation and power modeling
• Solar-array battery charging regulator systems
• Power-tree design support for electrical sub-systems owners
• Own new designs from start to finish or iterate on existing designs based on new feature requests, lessons learnt, and DFx (DFA/DFM/DFT)
• Work closely with other cross-functional engineering teams including systems, RF, mechanical, software, and FPGA to develop full product solutions
• Follow relevant internal and external “electrical design-for-space” standards to ensure the long term reliability of PCBAs in critical low-earth orbit missions
• Participate in and drive design reviews
• Create and own the execution of design validation test plans for new power components and systems
• Perform functional and performance testing on individual boards or integrated sub-systems as part of bring up and design validation/verification including accelerated lifetime testing where needed