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The role
You will own power conversion, distribution, switching, protection, and measurement from architecture through released hardware. The scope includes motor-drive electronics, electro-permanent-magnet pulse drivers, point-of-load conversion, current and voltage sensing, energy-storage interfaces, grounding, electromagnetic compatibility, and thermal design.
You will design from measured machine duty cycles, transients, and fault cases rather than nominal component ratings. The system must drive compact actuators and pulsed magnetic loads without compromising sensing, computation, or communications. Success means every power path has a quantified operating envelope, known fault behavior, traceable margin, and measured performance on the integrated machine.
What you will do
- Convert actuator, magnetic, compute, sensing, and mission duty cycles into power budgets, transient requirements, efficiency targets, thermal limits, protection thresholds, and validation plans.
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience developing power-electronic hardware.
- Released and brought up a switching converter, inverter, motor drive, pulsed-power circuit, battery-power stage, or comparable product using controlled schematics, layout, bill of materials, and revision history.
- Demonstrated command of MOSFET or GaN switching, gate-drive design, current sensing, protection, feedback stability, magnetics, loss calculation, thermal design, and power-PCB layout.
- Built an instrumented validation setup and measured efficiency, switching waveforms, transient response, electromagnetic behavior, protection timing, and thermal margin across a defined operating envelope.
- Closed a hardware failure that prevented operation or violated a defined limit by reproducing it, identifying the physical or electrical root cause, implementing a design change, and demonstrating the correction through repeated test.
Nice to have
- Compact motor drives, high-current robotics, electro-permanent-magnet drivers, pulsed inductive loads, or other mass-constrained power systems.
- Battery management, isolated conversion, regenerative loads, functional safety circuits, or redundant power architectures.
- EMI and EMC qualification, high-reliability electronics, automated end-of-line test, or transition from prototype boards to repeat production.
The annual base salary range for this San Francisco Bay Area position is $155,000–$195,000. Health coverage, benefits, and generous equity come with the role. This role is on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area. A relocation bonus is available. We hire to start as soon as possible. We review what you’ve shipped; if it’s the caliber we seek, interviews take about a week, start to finish. We treat your work and conversations with discretion.
About GRAM
The Mission
GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy.
Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will survive, coordinate, and recover without humans. We believe scalable machine labor requires more than single-agent task generality or machines shaped in our image.
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