Senior Electrical Field Engineer
Electric Hydrogen’s mission is to make molecules to decarbonize our world! Our outstanding people are our most important asset and will allow us to deliver hydrogen from renewable electrolysis for heavy industry, at prices below fossil fuels.
In this role, you will help design, build, document, commission, and maintain electrolysis R&D equipment. You will join a multidisciplinary engineering team tasked with troubleshooting and optimizing equipment and metrology that is facilitating electrochemical development of the core EH2 product. The role will require knowledge of multiple disciplines, such as: electrical, mechanical, chemical, and controls with a focus on the electrical side.
You will work onsite, and will be based in Devens, MA reporting into the Director of Test Engineering.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Own low voltage DC systems for medium (0.75 MW) and large scale (10 MW) electrolysis development testers
- Design power/IO distribution for 24V DC bus and document 24V DC subsystems
- Collaborate on instrumentation selection for instrumentation integrations into the 24V DC bus
- Design Ethernet IP network and documentation
- Interface with PLC and SCADA systems
- Troubleshoot low voltage DC bus issues
- Understand the high voltage (stack side) DC bus on medium and large scale electrolysis development testers
- Rectifier architecture, change management, and interfacing with rectifier suppliers
- Partner with the Power Systems team to implement rectifier and stack DC bussing changes
- Collaborate with the Facilities team to improve interface understanding and management
- Support the Operations team with running, troubleshooting, and commissioning large scale electrolysis systems
- Understand the line side integration to the facility
- Troubleshoot the stack side DC bus voltage issues
- Investigate the relationship between rectification and electrolysis cell performance
- Provide stack electronics support, such as cell voltage monitoring, stack monitoring, and stack discharge circuits
Qualifications
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and hands on electrical troubleshooting
- Expertise with complicated communication and low voltage troubleshooting
- Experience with scope work and coordination of electrical technician field work
- Experience with Hi-pot and insulation testing
- Experience working with analog/digital sensors, outputs, and signal conditioning
- Familiarity with EMI/EMC
- Experience working in a classified area
- Experience performing data analysis for system level health assessment
- Experience working with control systems
- Experience with PLC/LabVIEW/Python (not language specific)
- Competency drafting single lines and wiring diagrams
- Base level understanding of line side power distribution for a facility
- Experience with medium voltage to distributed 480 VAC, 208 VAC, and120 VAC
- Experience designing thermal management of electrical systems
- Experience working with SCADA systems, HMI equipment, and logging data to a historian for analysis
- Familiarity with industrial control panel design and UL 508A
- Familiarity with NFPA 70 and 70E
- Understanding of branch circuit protection and bonding/grounding schemes
- Understanding of mechanical fluid systems (plus)
- Experience with high pressure H2 and O2 systems (plus)
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Compensation & Benefits | P4
Actual base salary offered to the hired applicant will be determined based on their work location, level, qualifications, job-related skills, as well as relevant education or training and experience.
Base salary is just one part of Electric Hydrogen’s total rewards package. We feel strongly that our team should not have to worry about having quality healthcare. In addition to the base salary offered, the hired applicant may receive:
- an equity grant
- time off programs
- a $75/month cell phone allowance
- a 4% employer 401(k) match
- 100% fully paid premiums for employees and their families: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term & long-term disability coverage
- a discretionary bonus
Electric Hydrogen’s benefits programs are subject to eligibility requirements.
About Electric Hydrogen
Electric Hydrogen is a team of the world's experts in scaling technologies for the post-carbon world, with a proven record in transforming the grid and transportation sectors. Backed by some of the world's top venture capital firms, we design and manufacture electrolytic hydrogen systems matched to renewable power sources to create green hydrogen by splitting water. We are building a cost-effective and transformative path between renewable energy and multiple large industrial sectors. Abundant and low-cost renewable energy sources will power the world, and Electric Hydrogen technology will use this energy to decarbonize industry through sustainable materials. We were founded in 2020 and are based in California and Massachusetts.
Electric Hydrogen is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for all to belong. We are aware that people from historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We are actively working on efforts to change this social norm. If you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply!