Electrical Engineer: Power Distribution & Controls

Infrastructure for the Autonomous Era · First in. First up.

On-site · Austin, TX

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MESH is a system full of energy that has to be moved, measured, and controlled without ever putting a sailor or a load at risk. You design the command and control PCBAs and the power distribution that tie the generator, batteries, inverter, and loads into one coordinated system. This is the electrical backbone of the product, and you own it.

First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them. That's what we build.

Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy. Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production. We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.

Design the command and control PCBAs that orchestrate MESH: generator start and stop, contactor and relay control, interlocks, and I/O.

Design power distribution from the genset and battery through to the loads: busbars, contactors, breakers, fusing, and protection.