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Staff Reliability Engineer - Power Electronics

Lunar Energy · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About Lunar Energy

Lunar Energy's mission is to transition homes to 100% clean energy. Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy is designing and engineering the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. Backed by Prelude Ventures.

About the role

Reliability Engineers at Lunar Energy will be responsible for ensuring product reliability throughout the entire lifecycle of our revolutionary home energy products. This includes providing input during the design phases, developing test plans, and assessing on-going field performance. We are looking for people who are passionate about a more sustainable future and want to make that vision a reality. An ideal candidate is someone who is excited to collaborate with a diverse and dedicated team

What they're looking for

  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics or
  • Proven track record of solving complex power electronics reliability failures
  • Working knowledge in theory of operation of common power converter topologies (inverter, buck boost converter…etc)
  • Strong grasp of PCBA-level failure physics (CTE mismatch, solder fatigue, contact resistance, insulation degradation)
  • Familiarity with failure modes in common power electronics components (electrolytic caps, relays, semiconductors, magnetics)
  • Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CSAM, X-ray, cross-sectioning and EDX - know which technique to recommend given a specific failure
More about this role

Staff Reliability Engineer - Power Electronics

Reliability Engineers at Lunar Energy will be responsible for ensuring product reliability throughout the entire lifecycle of our revolutionary home energy products. This includes providing input during the design phases, developing test plans, and assessing on-going field performance. We are looking for people who are passionate about a more sustainable future and want to make that vision a reality. An ideal candidate is someone who is excited to collaborate with a diverse and dedicated team

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

  • Collaborate with mechanical and electrical engineers during hardware design to establish and refine component and system level reliability targets for our power electronics and battery systems.
  • Provide Design for Reliability (DfR) inputs during new product development.
  • Drive Design Failure Modes and...

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Reliability & Hardware Testing

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