The company:
Electric Era was founded to decarbonize and electrify transportation by making EV charging widespread and affordable. Transitioning the global car refill supply chain to electric will take decades of focused and intense work to solve the fundamental engineering challenges required to generate, store, transmit and distribute electricity for a global fleet of electric cars. Today, Electric Era designs, implements, and manages a rapidly growing fleet of battery-backed DC fast charging stations across the US from our Seattle, WA facility. Coupling energy storage systems with fast charging allows us to minimize infrastructure upgrade requirements and decrease cost of electricity for our customers.
We are hiring to support the development of our next generation charging station, a multidisciplinary hardware design effort aimed at further improving station uptime and charging reliability, enriching driver interactions, and streamlining construction and implementation timelines. Charging stations operate at the intersection of consumer-facing electronics and grid-scale electrical infrastructure, and present a challenging and interesting set of engineering challenges to overcome, including safety-critical analog system monitoring, compute devices capable of modern AI-assisted interactions, user interface elements, power system design, design, remote management interfaces including RF connectivity, and challenging thermal and packaging co-design within mechanical constraints.
Responsibilities:- Take complete ownership over electrical hardware modules running site level energy management, driver interaction and HMI, and thermal management and control.
- Drive system trades, requirements capture, and detailed design, including component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, and DFM incorporation. Present and defend design decisions in design reviews.
- Own prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and electrical and environmental test of these modules
- Contribute to overall certification efforts, including functional safety certifications for electronic designs.
- Challenge design criteria and assumptions, work to find simple solutions to complex problems, and eliminate unnecessary requirements and parts.
Required Skills- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Prior professional experience in hardware design
- Schematic entry and PCB layout experience - knowledge of Altium is a plus.
- Working knowledge of bench power supplies, loads, multimeters, and oscilloscopes.
Preferred Skills:- 2-6 years of professional experience, showing a strong portfolio of project work.
- Experience developing firmware in C or C++, kernel drivers, and/or low-level userspace embedded software.
- Interest and experience in human-factors-driven HMI design, including audio I/O
- Experience with electronic system hardware and software certifications, including UL 991 and UL 1998, and/or functional safety certifications (IEC 61508 or ISO 26262).
- Passion for our mission to decarbonize the transportation industry.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Enthusiasm for taking on multiple roles and working across disciplines within a small engineering team.
