Senior Electrical Engineer

The Senior Electrical Engineer will bring deep electrical design knowledge and product development expertise to Dandelion’s efforts to advance the state of the art in residential geothermal heat pumps. This person will be responsible for developing, prototyping, and productizing the electrical design of new heat pump products to serve new customer segments, with a focus on designs that lead to high quality, low cost geothermal heat pumps that are simple to install in homes. The Senior Electrical Engineer will work closely with our Product Development Engineer, Thermal Systems Engineer, Mechanical Engineer and Firmware Engineer to bring the most promising heat pump concepts to market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead electrical engineering efforts; guide the team to meet the product design requirements

• Electrical control board design

• Main system electrical/power design

• Design for and support compliance testing

• Use ECAD tools for generation of schematics and electrical BOMs for boards as well as panel assemblies

• Work directly in a lab environment, validating designs and testing prototypes

• Support transition of designs to our external manufacturing partner

• Work effectively on a small, cross-functional team

• Integrate easily with cross-functional disciplines (electrical, software, thermal)

• Work flexibly in a small team environment

About You:

• Expertise in the power / electrical design of refrigeration or heating appliances

• Experience with on-board sensors and their programming, especially in service of temperature control

• Controller Software development

• Sensor and signal conditioning circuits

• Design for Testing/Design for Service (DF*) skills

• Household building electrical safety codes and requirements (NFPA, UL)

Benefits/Perks:

• Health/Dental/Vision insurance
• 401k plan
• Stock/Equity options
• Paid Sick and Vacation time (PTO)
• 40-hour workweek, overtime available
• Training support including on-the-job and virtual/online-based courses

You’ll love working at Dandelion because:

We’re solving the world’s hardest problems. You’ll have the opportunity to pioneer renewable heating and cooling from the ground-up (literally). There’s no established playbook for fighting climate change, so your work will be messy, challenging, and build a better, cleaner world.

We’re good people. It sounds simple, and it is. We are passionate, vision-driven, low-ego, and treat one another with kindness and respect. We challenge ideas here, not people.

We hold each other accountable. We celebrate our wins and learn from our losses. We’re honest, realistic, and transparent across all areas of the business, every day -- not just at our monthly all-hands meeting.

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Since spinning out of Google X in 2017, Dandelion Energy has been an energy innovation company working to electrify home heating. We create and install geothermal heat pumps to replace fossil-fueled furnaces and boilers. We’ve grown into an organization of over 100 employees and have become the largest residential geothermal heat pump installation company in the United States. Our carbon impact to date is the equivalent to taking over 25,000 cars off the road... and that impact is accelerating with our growth!

Our cross-disciplinary team consists of experts in geothermal, drilling, heat pump software engineering, HVAC installation, solar and solar financing, behavioral economics, and high-growth operations amongst other backgrounds. With the potential to catalyze and scale a widespread transition to sustainable and affordable heating and cooling, our work is both complex yet rewarding. We are working to create a wholesale shift in how people heat and cool their homes — join us!