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Backed by Founders Fund, Felicis, First Round Capital, and Point72 Ventures, our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, Blue Origin, and Apple. We have completed multiple deep-ocean deployments to subsea volcanoes and are launching a long-term demonstration project this fall. By leveraging modular design, manufacturing scale, efficient drilling, and latent cooling on the seafloor, we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on environmental impact, deployment speed, and cost.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nWe’re seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to architect and own electrical power systems that enable subsea generation, conditioning, and delivery of energy to shore. This is a foundational role. You will design power architectures from first principles, develop and release high-reliability PCBAs, and drive systems from early concept through offshore deployment. You will own everything from topology selection and magnetics design to layout, thermal management, EMI control, validation testing, and field performance. If a converter fails at depth, you will understand why and ensure it does not fail again.\nYou will blend deep theoretical expertise in power electronics with hands-on experience shipping hardware. This is not a simulation-only role. We are looking for someone who has personally selected topologies, designed magnetics, laid out high-power PCBAs, brought up boards in the lab, debugged switching noise and instability, and driven designs through revision cycles into production. You understand the difference between a stable model and a converter operating at full load in a harsh electrical and thermal environment.\nYou will own the full PCBA lifecycle from architecture and schematic capture through layout review, fabrication, bring-up, validation testing, design iteration, and field performance analysis. You will work cross-functionally with mechanical, controls, subsea systems, and offshore operations teams to ensure our power systems are efficient, stable, fault-tolerant, and serviceable.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect and design subsea power conversion and distribution systems from generator interface through export and load integration\n\nSelect and justify converter topologies for AC-DC, DC-DC, and DC-AC systems based on efficiency, fault tolerance, thermal constraints, and scalability\n\nDesign high-power PCBAs including schematic capture, magnetics design, gate drive architecture, current sensing, isolation strategy, and protection circuitry\n\nOwn PCB layout review with specific attention to high di/dt loops, parasitic inductance, creepage and clearance, EMI containment, and thermal paths\n\nMechanically collaborate on packaging, heat rejection, pressure-tolerant enclosures, and high-voltage isolation within subsea assemblies\n\nDefine and implement system-level protection philosophy including overcurrent, overvoltage, short-circuit, ground fault detection, isolation monitoring, and coordinated fault response\n\nDevelop fault trees and failure containment strategies to prevent single-point electrical failures from propagating through the system\n\nLead board bring-up, lab validation, and full-load testing including efficiency characterization, thermal validation, EMI testing, and fault injection\n\nDrive root cause investigations for converter instability, switching noise, insulation breakdown, component overstress, and field failures\n\nOwn the full system lifecycle including fabrication release, vendor coordination, revision control, and production readiness\n\nIntegrate power hardware cleanly with controls, firmware, mechanical systems, and offshore operations\n\nEstablish electrical design standards, review rigor, documentation discipline, and reliability practices appropriate for subsea energy infrastructure\n\nQualifications\n6+ years of experience designing and shipping power electronics hardware in demanding or high-reliability environments\n\nDemonstrated experience architecting complete power systems, not just individual boards or subcircuits\n\nDeep understanding of power conversion fundamentals including topology tradeoffs, control loop stability, magnetics design, switching losses, thermal modeling, and efficiency optimization\n\nProven experience designing high-power PCBAs including schematic capture, layout collaboration or ownership, isolation strategy, and protection circuitry\n\nStrong working knowledge of grounding, shielding, EMI mitigation, creepage and clearance requirements, and high di/dt layout practices\n\nExperience implementing and validating protection strategies including overcurrent, overvoltage, short-circuit, ground fault detection, and fault isolation\n\nHands-on lab experience bringing up high-power hardware, debugging instability, chasing down noise and parasitics, and performing controlled fault injection\n\nExperience with high-voltage systems or DC buses preferred, including practical understanding of insulation coordination and safety considerations\n\nDemonstrated ownership of hardware through full lifecycle including board release, fabrication, bring-up, revision control, and production transition\n\nAbility to think from first principles and challenge legacy assumptions when appropriate\n\nHigh ownership mentality and comfort being the single-threaded owner of a critical electrical system\n\nStrong cross-disciplinary communication skills and ability to collaborate with mechanical, controls, subsea, and offshore operations teams\n\nEntrepreneurial mindset and willingness to operate in ambiguity while building a new class of energy infrastructure\n\nCompensation, Benefits, & Perks\nAs a pre-revenue startup, Endurance Energy offers competitive base salaries and generous equity packages for full-time employees. Final base salary will be determined by an array of factors including internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and work experience.\nA key aspect of our compensation philosophy is that value creation should be aligned with rewards. Right now this means equity is a significant portion of every full-time employee's compensation. As the company matures, there will be continued evolution and changes to the total rewards and total compensation package. What will always be true is that if we win, we win together. Equity is granted to every full-time employee as a meaningful piece of ownership. We believe the people building the company should share directly in the value they create.\nIn addition to a competitive base salary and equity, employees will receive all of our other great benefits and perks, including:\nBenefits: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage\n\nTime Away: Flexible PTO including 12 paid company holidays\n\nGlobal Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Azores\n\nHands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions\n\nCutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy\n\nImpactful Work: Help solve one of the world's most pressing challenges\n\nDive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification\n\nOther Perks: Access to the company boat, free meals and snacks, and the list goes on!\n\nIf you’re selected for consideration, a recruiter will be able to discuss in greater detail.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7627,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Insurance coverage","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electrical & Electronic Engineering","Marine & Ocean Engineering","Power Grid"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-06-16T21:33:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":32,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.72,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":130,"expected_fill_days":101,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":250000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/enduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/enduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T03:58:41Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5443,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":10117},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=10117"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fenduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fenduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fenduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/enduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fenduranceenergy-senior-power-electronics-engineer"}]}