Manager of Hardware Development
Iontra Inc, United States
Job Description
Job Title: Manager of Hardware Development
Location: Centennial, CO (hybrid)
Company Overview:
At Iontra, our breakthrough battery charging solution is born from 9+ years of combined experience working with demanding energy storage applications, from the technical and commercial challenges of leading heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturing to the complexity and extreme demands of space going and planetary exploration vehicles. Together our team has innovated to answer the needs of our customers for a plug and play solution that improves the performance of today’s lithium batteries. Our solution can be implemented quickly and inexpensively to improve customer experiences with any existing Lithium-ion battery-powered products. For more information on our latest news, visit: https://www.iontra.com/blog/iontra-closes-67-million-series-b-following-additional-29-million-investment/
Role Summary:
In this role, you’ll be tasked with performing essential duties as a part of both the Iontra research team and the product development team. You’ll be responsible for implementing and consistently maintaining a disciplined and planned set of daily and ad-hoc processes and laboratory activities described below in order to advance our technologies and applications. This is a full-time role located in our Centennial, CO office in a fast-paced startup environment.
You’ll love this job if you:
- Are driven to be part of a team doing big things to help our planet.
- Aspire to work with a successful veteran startup management team.
- Are a self-starter and always find ways to get your work done and help team members.
- Are an organized, detail-oriented person being very good at time management.
- Are determined and resilient to keep things moving forward at a startup pace.
- Are assertive and able to influence and partner with the team to get things done.
- Enjoy new challenges and change.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Architecting and leading electronics hardware for battery applications
- Managing electrical design engineering team members
- Collaborating on embedded system implementations
- Outlining, overseeing execution and reviewing of engineering test plans.
- Writing and maintaining documentation with Atlassian based tools and git version control systems.
- Mentoring team members on their portions of the design and improving their skillsets.
Requirements
You’ll Need These Qualifications:
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or similar field
- 7+ years of experience working in a relevant role designing electronics hardware.
- 2+ years of managing engineer staff.
- Experience with ground up PCBA design, from specification to assembled product.
- Proficient in system architecture, circuit design and simulation.
- Power electronics or switch mode power supply design experience.
- Understanding of embedded systems design and related concepts.
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
- Familiarization with testing methodologies and best practices.
- Clear communicator and collaborator with team members.
- Experience with digital power control and implementing application specific microcontrollers (TI C2000, STM D-power or equivalent product lines).
- Knowledge of battery systems.
- Developed embedded system firmware.
- Test fixture/jig design for production or test environments.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with digital power control and implementing application specific microcontrollers (TI C2000, STM D-power or equivalent product lines).
- Knowledge of battery systems.
- Developed embedded system firmware.
- Test fixture/jig design for production or test environments.
Benefits
Benefits and Compensation:
Salary Range: $160k - $180k (salary is based on education, experience, skillset, and market value).
We offer the following benefits package:
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental amp; Vision)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary amp; ADamp;D)
- Short Term amp; Long-Term Disability
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick amp; Holidays)
- 401(k) Retirement Plan plus company match
- Company Shares Plan
Iontra has an equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy that provides that no applicant or staff member will be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, color, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.