Power Electronics Engineer

Our power electronics work spans three focus areas. Depending on your background, interests, and level, you may go deep in one or work across several. Many of our engineers own problems that touch all three.

• Controls & protection for the power stage. Design the low-voltage electronics that command, monitor, and protect the pulsed-power circuits, including EtherCAT-networked control boards that command charge and dump, synchronize triggering across many switches, capture high-speed diagnostics inside a high-voltage environment, and drive the fault protection that keeps a multi-megajoule system safe. This spans precision analog sensing, digital logic, FPGA-based monitoring, driver circuits, and dynamic snubbing.
• High voltage & pulsed power. Design, build, and commission the pulsed-power systems that compress plasma to fusion conditions, including capacitor banks, switching (thyristor/SCR and solid-state), triggering, and protection at kilovolt and kiloampere scale with sub-millisecond pulses. Characterize components under real pulsed conditions and turn test data into design guidance the team relies on.