Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Systems

Assured Space Access Technologies, Inc. is a defense and engineering firm delivering phased array, radar, RF payload, and secure communications solutions to government and prime contractor customers. We are headquartered in Irvine, California. This role owns power system design for our Ground Based Radar (GBR) product line.

Team: Engineering, Ground Based Radar (GBR), Power Team

Location: Irvine, CA (on-site)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Base Salary Range: $155,000 – $200,000

Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. An active clearance is preferred.

Position Summary

Ground-based radar power is a hard load: high peak demand, pulsed transmit draw, tight regulation requirements at the array, and a need to behave well on whatever the site or generator can supply. You will own that problem from the input connection through distribution to the array, beamformer, DREX, compute, and cooling loads.

This is a senior-level role. You will bring real hands-on power design and high-power test experience, and you will own the technical decisions on the power architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design prime power conversion and distribution architecture, including input protection, rectification, conversion stages, and distribution to array, electronics, and cooling loads.

• Analyze and manage pulsed transmit-load behavior, including peak demand, energy-storage sizing, holdup, droop, and transient response at the point of load.

• Design power quality and protection provisions, including inrush limiting, overcurrent and overvoltage protection, fault isolation, and coordinated protection across distribution branches.

• Perform power budget analysis and efficiency analysis across the system, and track power margin as a program metric.

• Design grounding and bonding architecture for the system, including lightning and surge protection appropriate to a ground-based installation.

• Support electromagnetic compatibility design, including conducted emissions and susceptibility, filtering, and cable shielding strategy.

• Design power monitoring, control, and telemetry, including sequencing, interlocks, safe shutdown, and reporting into system health management.

• Perform worst-case circuit analysis, derating analysis, and reliability prediction for power hardware.

• Support prototype bring-up, high-power testing, troubleshooting, and design correction through to verified hardware.

• Support technical reviews, risk assessments, safety analysis, and documentation for engineering projects.
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.

• 8+ years of power electronics or power distribution design experience.

• Demonstrated experience with power conversion topologies, energy storage sizing, and transient load analysis.

• Working knowledge of grounding, bonding, and electromagnetic compatibility practices in high-power systems.

• Proficiency with circuit simulation tools such as LTspice, PSpice, PLECS, or equivalent, and with schematic capture tools such as Altium Designer.

• Hands-on high-power bench and test experience, with appropriate safety discipline.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

• Ability to work on site in Irvine, CA.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a power electronics emphasis.

• Experience powering pulsed radar or comparable high peak-to-average loads.

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-1399 or comparable power quality standards.

• Experience with generator, shore power, or microgrid interfacing for deployed systems.

• Active Secret clearance.
  

What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

• Opportunity to contribute to national defense in a high-impact role.

• Collaborative work environment with access to cutting-edge tools and facilities.

• Relocation assistance for qualified candidates.
  

Equal Opportunity

Assured Space Access Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.