Power Electrical Engineer - Redmond, WA - onsite

Interview: 1 -2 video conference interview 

Job Description

We are building next-generation high-speed digital hardware with multi-rail power demands. We are hiring a power-focused electrical engineer to own the board power architecture end-to-end—from rail planning and regulator design through PCB power delivery, and into the lab for power-on, sequencing, and characterization. This is a hands-on role for someone equally comfortable defining a power tree and debugging rails on the bench. Experience with Siemens Xpedition EDM tools is strongly preferred.

What You'll Do

• Define the board power architecture: rail planning, budgeting, sequencing, and power-state/mode design for FPGA/SoC, memory, and peripheral loads.
• Design DC-DC converters (buck/multiphase), LDOs, load switches; select components and run margin/derating analysis.
• Design and analyze the power distribution network.
• Own power sequencing and supervision.
• Own power bring-up in the lab.
• Debug and characterize supplies using power analyzers, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, and thermal tools.
• Write and execute power test plans across voltage and temperature; document results and drive root-cause of power-related failures.
• Contribute to manufacturing readiness: DFM/DFT for power circuits, bring-up procedures, and test documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) and hands-on power/hardware design experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-rail board power design from schematic through bring-up and characterization.
• Strong fundamentals in switching and linear regulator design, magnetics selection, and control-loop/stability basics.
• Practical PDN and power-integrity experience.
• Experience with power sequencing, supervisors, load switches, inrush, UVLO/OVP/OCP protection.
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design using Xpedition or similar EDM tools (e.g. Siemens Xpedition/EDM, Cadence, Altium).
• Hands-on lab proficiency: power analyzers, electronic loads, oscilloscope, DMM, and a structured debug methodology.
• Ability to read datasheets and device power specs and turn them into a correct, robust power tree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Power delivery for FPGAs/SoCs including core, transceiver-analog, and memory rails.
• Power-integrity simulation experience (Sigrity/PowerSI, HyperLynx, ANSYS, or similar).
• Battery/solar or spacecraft power-system exposure; radiation-aware or high-reliability power design.
• Thermal analysis and co-design with mechanical teams.
• Scripting for test automation and data analysis (Python or similar).

What Makes Someone Successful Here

• Comfortable owning ambiguity — taking a power tree from concept to a validated, characterized board.

Bench-strong: enjoys debugging rails and chasing root cause, not just designing on paper.