Power Electronics and Controls Engineer

About the company

AboutTau

Power conversion is the bottleneck between the compute, energy, and mobility industries and the future they're trying to build. Most of the industry is still solving it with decades-old approaches. Tau is fixing that. We're a venture-backed hardtech company in Redwood City, building power conversion technology for data centers, EVs, and energy systems. Several products are already moving into production.

Your tasks

• Help define requirements for motor control software and interfacing hardware components, including voltage and current sensors, power stages, and speed sensors
• Understand, drive design of, and implement motor controller functionality, behaviors, and algorithms
• Translate algorithms into software implementation and integrate into the firmware framework
• Test, validate, and troubleshoot controller implementation
• Develop, test, and validate motor control algorithms in the lab and in-vehicle
• Maintain awareness of and influence research and development in key component technologies that influence future inverter/motor designs and control.

Requirements

We hire people who own problems end-to-end: power electronics, embedded software, controls, test and validation, mechanical design. We solve from first principles, not legacy playbooks. We're past "promising technology." Customers are buying, volume is coming, and the people who join now set the standard everyone builds on after.

Requires MS in Electrical Engg and 3mos as Power Electronics Hardware Engineer

What we offer

Tau is committed to paying competitive compensation that is fair and equitable. Your experience, qualifications, training, critical skills, and/or business considerations determine your compensation. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that may include an annual performance bonus, equity, and other incentive compensation plans considered part of Tau’s total compensation package. To learn more about our top-tier benefits, please visit https://www.taumotors.com. The level will depend on the candidate’s experience. Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate excellence in their respective fields and possess the ability to learn quickly within a fast-paced environment.

• Become part of an emerging company during a rapid growth phase—within an industry undergoing dramatic transformation for a global imperative.
• Work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields to: (1) attack some of the most pressing issues of today while (2) contributing to technically demanding and deeply innovative solutions.
• Growth potential—we advance team members who have an outsized impact.
• Competitive compensation based upon experience level, including stock options—we believe in capturing value in the future we create together.
• Flexible time off and paid holidays.
• Centrally located in the Bay Area on the Peninsula in vibrant downtown Redwood City
• Blocks from the Caltrain
• Walking distance to food and entertainment
• Easy access to both the 101 and 280
• Excellent medical, dental, vision & life insurance
• Comprehensive benefits including 401(k), HSA and FSA benefits, commuter benefits and more

Other

Power Electronics and Controls Engineer · Full Time Redwood City $134,000

Equal Opportunity Employer Tau is an equal opportunity employer that guarantees a work environment that respects and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.