Generalist Hardware/Firmware

Steinmetz is building the next generation of American power electronics. The next generation of great machines — electric vehicles, robotics, aerospace, and industrial systems — depends on power electronics that are lighter, cheaper, more efficient, and built at real scale.

Steinmetz is hiring always looking for very talented engineers that span the stack. Everything from the silicon layer to the aluminum layer. If you’re an engineer who works on any of these topics: silicon, electrical, software, firmware, mechanical, mechatronics, RF, materials then there’s likely a role for you at Steinmetz.

At Steinmetz we deal with incredible challenges, and we have a very high-bar for talent. The ideal person for this role is someone who can take ownership and execute, the type of person who when faced with a challenge can work to find a solution.

Steinmetz builds high-power electric propulsion and power-conversion hardware end-to-end: from semiconductor packaging and gate-drive electronics through firmware, controls, thermal/mechanical design, and MW-scale validation.

We are tool-agnostic and use whatever gets the design to real hardware fastest. A sample of the problems we work on:

• Rust firmware for embedded power electronics
• 100 kHz-class switching controls, protection loops, and fault handling
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing, telemetry, calibration, and automated bring-up

• MW-scale power electronics simulation, test, and validation
• Nanosecond-scale semiconductor switching and high-dv/dt design
• Custom chip / power-module packaging
• Gate-drive, sensing, isolation, EMI/EMC, and fault-protection hardware

• Thermal management for high-power systems, including vacuum environments
• Lightweight mechanical structures for high-vibration platforms: aircraft, cars, rockets, boats, etc.
• Aluminum structures, busbars, enclosures, cooling paths, and manufacturable packaging

• Custom test stands for high-voltage, high-current hardware
• Rapid prototyping across PCBAs, machined parts, harnesses, and assemblies
• Design-for-test and design-for-manufacturing on real production-intent hardware