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Job Description: Staff Electrical Engineer, NPI
Bloom Energy, a solid oxide fuel cell company, is looking for a Staff Electrical Engineer, NPI to join its world class team. This individual should be a dynamic professional who is looking for a rewarding future in one of today’s most exciting technologies.
Location: This position will be based in Sunnyvale, CA and will involve 30% traveling.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Manage new NPI Project transfers to Bloom Manufacturing and CM’s.
- Ability to communicate clearly & professionally within the team and also with external vendors.
- Develop interconnect wiring diagrams/schematics, wire harness drawings, and test procedures
- Ability to lead electrical team.
- Failure analysis of electrical components and preventative or corrective action
- Panel layout and prototyping
- Develop Work Instructions
- Develop, and/or work with suppliers to generate test requirements, test fixtures and test software
- Develop and manage BOMs, ECNs, Deviations
- Work within the development team to ensure design for manufacturability
- Develop test equipment from concept to commissioning
- Train manufacturing personnel on test process, test equipment, and test software
Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years experience in Electrical Engineering or New Product Introduction. The candidate will have worked in oil and gas, energy and power, pharmaceutical production, chemical processing, large capital equipment, or related industry. Knowledge of fuel cell systems is a plus but is not required
- Experience developing schematics and wire harness CAD (using AutoCAD)
- Ability to independently manage projects
- Experience in rapid scale up of a new products.
- Understanding of analog and digital circuits, power devices, magnetics, control systems, switchgear, test equipment and instrumentation
- Hands-on experience testing and troubleshooting high power, high voltage equipment in a laboratory environment
- Experienced in development of test equipment which include electro-mechanical assemblies (e.g.: mass & air flow sensors, DC-DC converters)
- Excellent hands-on bench/lab skills working with electrical components (PCB, high voltage components, wiring interconnects, and digital/analog I/O)
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast paced start up environment
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
- Knowledge of Mechanical Assemblies a plus.
About Bloom Energy:
Bloom Energy will make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world. Our technology, first developed for NASA's Mars Program, will dramatically change the way that the world’s energy is produced, distributed and consumed. Bloom’s unique on-site power generation systems are among the most efficient on the planet, providing significantly reduced operating costs and producing dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. Pioneering a new class of stationary fuel cells, Bloom is not just creating a new product or company; it is driving a whole new industry.
As one of Silicon Valley’s most promising startups, Bloom was the first clean energy technology investment for Kleiner Perkins and NEA, two of Silicon Valley’s most revered venture capital firms. The company has assembled a super-star board, experienced management team, and top-notch technical staff. Bloom Energy is growing quickly and is looking to add to its dynamic team.
Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions, unless undue hardship would result.
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Salary Ranges:
$134,500.00 - $193,500.00
