Senior Electrical Engineer
panthalassaPortland, Oregon
Full Time
Posted February 9, 2026
$155k - $200k
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Job Description
The Senior Electrical Engineer will design and develop high-reliability electronic hardware for ocean energy systems, including power electronics, energy storage, and control systems, working collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team to ensure system performance and safety.
Key Responsibilities
- Design high-reliability electronic hardware, including load engagement systems, energy storage batteries, battery management systems, supercapacitor banks, and power electronics circuit cards.
- Translate system requirements into detailed circuit designs, including schematic and PCB layout, component selection, and hardware packaging.
- Test and verify hardware in laboratory environments, including system integration and validation against thermal, mechanical, and electrical limits.
- Develop and implement unit and integration testing processes to ensure hardware reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary engineering teams to support design, testing, and deployment activities.
- Prepare safety and engineering documentation, and train technicians on hardware operation and testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering
- Minimum of 8 years relevant working experience in electrical engineering
- Extensive design experience including energy storage systems, from-scratch DC-DC converters, and digital and mixed-signal electronics design, including ADC and DAC use
- Working knowledge of filtering, EMI EMC compliance, grounding and shielding, thermal management, etc.
- A background in both analog and digital design
- Excellent fundamental and comprehensive knowledge of electrical engineering concepts related to circuit design, calibration, and testing of mixed signal systems
- Basic understanding of switch mode power electronics and electrothermal design concepts
- Knowledge of craftsmanship skills involved in electronics construction, such as PCB creation, circuit card assembly, soldering, etc.
- Understanding of the utility and applicability of hardware development processes
- Comprehensive understanding of test equipment like oscilloscopes, signal generators, differential probes, multimeters, bench supplies, electronic loads, etc.
- Ability to test and verify the designed hardware in a lab environment, including building and integrating multiple systems, and transferring test requirements to test engineering for large-scale manufacturing
- Experience creating unit and integration test processes to ensure design validity and reliability, including exercising prototypes past their thermal, mechanical, and electrical limits to understand failure modes
- Ability to collaborate effectively across interdisciplinary engineering teams
- Ability to prepare supporting safety and engineering documentation for designs
- Willingness to be responsible for the training and safety of technicians who operate or test the hardware
Benefits & Perks
Cash compensation of 155,000 - 200,000
Equity in the company
Flexible paid time off
Health insurance (100% paid for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
Dental insurance (100% paid for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
Vision insurance (100% paid for full-time employees, partners, and dependents)
Disability insurance (100% paid for long-term financial support if disabled)
Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
Relocation assistance to Portland, Oregon
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