Senior HV Bus Engineer - San Jose California

Company: Archer Aviation
Location: San Jose, California
Posted On: 05/10/2024

What you'll do:

• Prepare and facilitate insulation coordination across the product
  
• Design and develop the HV bus system to meet safety and functional requirements
  
• Create and manage budgets for leakage resistance, Y-capacitance, and X-capacitance
  
• Create and drive safety standards for all HV bus system modules
  
• Start to finish ownership - from specification to design, and validation:
  
  
  
  • System evaluation of resonance points as a function of modules and system tolerances
    
  • Specifying the HV bus system's steady state and transient voltages resulting from pre-charge, discharge, module, and other normal operations
    
  • Evaluation of HV bus disturbances resulting from thermal and pyro fuse events and system or module failures
    
  • Testing of the HV system, verifying compliance with the system specifications in all operational modes
    
    
  • Provide design guidance from conception into production while working with a multidisciplinary team to understand module performance and sources of HV bus disturbances
    
  • Verifying that modules meet budget allocations and develop solutions to bring the system into compliance with requirements
    
    What you need:
    
    
    
    • BS Degree in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years or MS with 1+ years of experience in related fields
      
    • Sound knowledge and hands-on experience in HV bus architecture covering safety and functional requirements
      
    • Familiarity with battery, power electronics, thermal / pyro fuses, and typical transient loads and exposures anticipated for aerospace systems
      
    • Experience in performing modeling of system dynamics in circuit simulation tools (spice, Matlab/Simulink, etc.)
      
    • Master of all types of lab instruments: oscilloscope, network analyzers, HV power supplies, etc.
      
    • Excellent organizational and communication skills
      
      Bonus Qualifications:
      
      
      
      • Hands on experience with automotive and aerospace HV bus systems
        
      • Ph. D. in electrical engineering
        
      • Passion for aviation and eVTOLs
        
        At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company's business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $134,400 - $168,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
        Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer's People Team at . Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
        
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