Starpath Robotics is a space research and technology company focused on designing and manufacturing robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, reducing the cost of deep space transport. Backed by Space Capital.
About the role
Own the design of a power converter for the Starlight solar array product from requirements through flight readiness Translate system-level requirements into converter architecture and detailed electrical requirements
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of professional experience designing power electronics or power-conversion hardware
- Experience taking a power converter from architecture through prototype, bring-up, and testing
- Strong understanding of switch-mode power-converter topologies, control-loop design, magnetics, power semiconductors, and gate-drive design
- Experience with current and voltage sensing, feedback networks, filtering, isolation, and hardware protection circuits
- Strong understanding of grounding, parasitics, switching behavior, power integrity, and EMI/EMC fundamentals
- Experience designing or directing the layout of multilayer power-electronics PCBs
More about this role
Travel: Occasional
Starpath is building the technology to enable human expansion into the Solar System. We are developing systems that will produce the water, power, and oxygen needed for humans to live and work on the Moon and Mars. Our ultimate goal is to build and operate a self-sustaining city on Mars.
Starlight is our space solar product. Our goal is to build the lowest-cost, highest-performance space solar power system—one capable of powering most new satellites around Earth and all Starpath equipment on the Moon and Mars.
We are looking for a Power Electronics Avionics Engineer to own the design of Starlight’s power electronics. Your immediate responsibility will be to develop a power converter from system architecture through qualification and production.
You will own the converter’s topology, component selection, magnetics, control loops, sensing, protection circuitry, PCB design, thermal performance, and electrical interfaces. This is a hands-on role that includes circuit design, simulation, hardware bring-up, testing, and failure investigation in close collaboration with systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineers.
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