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Spinor Energy

Megawatt-scale SMES for power smoothing

Electrical Engineer - Power Electronics

Power Systems EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMountain View, CA, USA$125k - $250k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, another relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience, including internships or co-ops, designing, analyzing, building, testing, or manufacturing electrical or electromechanical hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Architect bidirectional, grid-facing megawatt-class power-conversion systems.
  • Evaluate converter topologies and select switching devices, magnetics, capacitors, sensors, and protection components.
  • Design high-voltage power stages, gate drives, sensing, controls interfaces, grounding, and supporting electronics.
  • Develop fast fault detection, quench protection, interlocks, safe-state behavior, and supervisory control.
  • Build electrical test infrastructure and instrumentation.
  • Lead board and system bring-up, debugging, characterization, and design iteration.
  • Integrate across magnet, cryogenic, vacuum, mechanical, firmware, and controls engineering.
  • Take systems from a blank schematic to reliable operation in the field.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing or commissioning high-voltage, high-current, or high-power systems.
  • Expertise in power semiconductors, gate drives, magnetics, sensing, controls, or protection.
  • Ability to reason across electrical, thermal, mechanical, firmware, and controls boundaries.
  • A record of turning incomplete requirements and ambiguous problems into working hardware.
  • Desire to remain hands-on while owning system-level technical decisions.
  • Relevant experience may include SiC or GaN converters, grid-tied inverters, UPS or battery systems, pulse power, magnet power supplies, motor drives, superconducting magnets, fusion systems, accelerators, cryogenics, or other high-energy hardware.

About the Company

Spinor Energy

Megawatt-scale SMES for power smoothing

Spinor Energy designs and builds superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems that store energy in the magnetic field of a superconducting coil. Its HTS magnets, together with advanced power electronics and cryogenic systems, can discharge megawatts within milliseconds. It differentiates itself with an integrated HTS-magnet and systems approach backed by engineers with SpaceX experience. The goal is to make SMES a practical, deployable solution for rapid-power support to data centers and other high-demand loads.

Company size
1-10
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Mountain View, CA
Founded
2025

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