# Head of Hardware at Peak Energy

- Company: Peak Energy
- What the company does: Peak Energy designs and deploys grid-scale sodium-ion energy storage systems for reliable, lower-cost energy infrastructure. Backed by Eclipse Ventures.
- Company website: https://peakenergy.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Burlingame, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $240K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://peakenergy.com/get-in-touch/careers/jobs?job_id=5221896007&gh_jid=5221896007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/peak-energy-head-of-hardware/

## About the role

Peak Energy is looking for a Head of Hardware to lead all aspects of hardware development for our ESS platform — including mechanical, structural, thermal, reliability, and test domains. It's the broadest scope on the engineering team. You'll set the direction and drive execution across subsystem design, integration, validation, and reliability, ensuring our hardware is safe, reliable, and ready for scale.

## What they're looking for

- Serve as the technical lead for all ESS hardware
- Lead system design and ensure successful integration across electrical, mechanical, structural, and thermal systems
- Define and maintain s ubsystem hardware requirements for HV/LV distribution, enclosures, interconnects, cooling, and protections
- Own the reliability function: design for reliability, DFMEA, accelerated life testing, and lifetime prediction for high-voltage electronics
- Own v erific ation testing: mechanical reliability, thermal cycling, HV insulation, seismic and structural performance
- Oversee design-for-manufacturability and partner with Manufacturing Engineering and supply chain to scale production at our Sacramento factory

Tags: ESS Engineering

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