Senior Power Electronics and Controls Architect

Job Description

This role is located onsite in our Boulder design facility.

About Emporia

Emporia is accelerating the energy transition by helping small commercial and residential consumers save up to 50% on their utility bills. We combine automated energy management tools, real-time 24/7 energy monitoring with Utility rate schedules and wholesale energy prices to give our customers true insight into how they are using and spending money on energy. Our Smart Outlets, EV chargers, home batteries and cloud integrations to a third-party smart home device, thermostat and smart appliances allow us to reduce pollution, shift usage to less expensive times and save our customers money.

Our Mission

We help people use energy smarter, save money, and improve the world—guided by four pillars:

Customer Satisfaction: We listen to our customers and build products that elevate their lives.

Optimization: We refine processes to offer the highest-quality products at the best value.

Innovation: We continuously evolve through technology, ingenuity, and common sense.

Making the World Better: We develop home electrification solutions that solve real problems and improve lives.

Role Overview

At Emporia Energy, hardware products are the tip of the spear - attracting customers, fueling data analytics, and enabling demand response through integration with Emporia's energy management platform. We provide our customers with reliable, high-value add products at industry-leading pricing.

We are looking for a passionate Principal Power Electronics and Controls Architect to help us expand the Emporia Energy hardware ecosystem – initially by working on bringing our upcoming Bidirectional EV Charger to market. Work will involve owning control loop design and verification for both AC/DC and DC/DC power converters and contributing to needed V2G, G2V, and V2H hardware and control designs. As a senior member of the Hardware Development team, the ideal candidate will be expected to work closely with peers on this cross disciplinary project and provide mentorship to mid and junior level engineers on the team as needed. Throughout, they will demonstrate the strong analysis, design, and test skills required to produce the reliable, low-cost hardware that our customers expect.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary technical expert for bidirectional 10-100 kW level AC/DC and DC/DC power electronics hardware and control systems at all stages of design and validation

Provide power electronics hardware expertise to lower-level power electronics engineers, specifically for a bidirectional dual-active bridge architecture

Support other power related projects as needed

Own and mentor control loop design and validation for bidirectional AC/DC and DC/DC power converters

Develop prototype firmware for hardware bring up and testing while working with our established firmware team to mature and transition these efforts into production

Collaborate with mechanical, manufacturing and other electrical engineers as needed

Support the transition from new product development into high volume manufacturing

Assist in developing production line testing of the systems you developed when needed

Work closely with a team of passionate engineers to ensure we develop exceptional hardware products – participate and/or lead design reviews and trades as needed or lend a hand with testing and debug as required. We are a small team requiring a high level of collaboration and teamwork to ensure we achieve our goals.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field

10+ years of experience developing power electronics for products

Experience developing digital control systems for grid tied inverters, rectifiers, and DC/DC converters using microcontroller platforms

Experience developing hardware for power electronics, including topology selection, switching device selection, magnetics design and sensing network design

Experience with modeling and simulation-aided analysis for control loop design

Strong understanding of power converter theory and design

Familiar with coding/scripting language such as Python and C, or equivalent

Electrical hardware lab equipment familiarity

Demonstrated experience managing workload and project deliverables

Strong writing, interpersonal, and communication skills

Desired Skills & Qualifications

Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering or related field

Working knowledge of V2G and G2V related regulations in North America as they relate to the design of grid interactive power converters

Bidirectional inverter design experience for North American grid tied applications

Working knowledge of renewable energy related concepts such as home energy storage systems, general power conversion/regulation/distribution, and power fault protection

Experience writing embedded software for the STM32 family of microcontrollers

Experience designing and debugging for electrical and safety compliance standards such as FCC, CE, UL/ETL, etc.

Experience designing and shipping high-volume consumer products

What We Offer

Compensation: $160k-180k +Options

Career Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of home energy innovation.

Benefits: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), employee stock option program, paid holidays plus unlimited PTO, discounts on Emporia products and partner offerings.

Full-time