Senior Energy Distribution & Management Engineer
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The Senior Energy Distribution & Management Engineer will own power distribution and energy management for a maritime autonomous vehicle. The role covers power bus architecture, switching and protection, energy budgeting, subsystem interfaces, and power-system modeling. The engineer will work with energy storage, regulation, and vehicle systems teams, support EMI/EMC qualification and prototype testing, and travel to test sites up to 25%.
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Job Description
You will own power distribution and energy management for a maritime autonomous vehicle. You will design the power bus architecture, switching systems, and management logic that delivers power from storage to every consuming subsystem.
Your spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive to completion.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own power distribution bus architecture and design
Design power switching, protection, and fault isolation circuits
Manage vehicle energy budget and power allocation
Define power interfaces between energy storage and all consuming subsystems
Model and simulate the vehicle power system across mission load profiles
Support EMI/EMC design and qualification
Interface with energy storage, regulation, and vehicle systems teams
Support prototype integration and testing
Travel up to 25% to test sites
Skills and Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
7+ years designing DC power distribution or power electronics hardware for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, or other mobile platforms
Experience owning a vehicle or platform power bus architecture, with protection and fault isolation designed into the bus
Experience owning a platform-level power budget as a design artifact
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance Experience with marine vehicle power distribution systems
Working knowledge of EMI/EMC design practices
Experience with power system simulation tools
Experience with high voltage and high current systems
Experience in defense or maritime robotics
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 1,289 open Power Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$126–205K/yr60 salary ranges
- US median$29/hr21 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 68 open Power Systems Engineer jobs in California and 1,289 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Power Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (1,113 postings).
- Education
- 814 of the 1,289 open Power Systems Engineer jobs (63%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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