Job Description

Role Snapshot

You’ll own the pulse power system that comprises the drill bit, advancing prototypes into reliable, field-ready hardware in a harsh downhole environment. You’ll push electric insulation and field control to the edge of what’s possible, balancing physics, manufacturability, and safety. You’ll turn a working test environment into a repeatable build, test, and learn loop, making smart component-level decisions when the perfect part does not exist

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build the pulse power source from component level, selecting, qualifying, and validating parts under real tool constraints
• Drive electric insulation strategy, using field stress analysis and experiments to define materials, geometries, and interfaces for high reliability
• Execute pulse power circuit layout and packaging, optimizing creepage, clearance, partial discharge margins, and thermal paths
• Lead component testing and failure analysis, closing the loop between simulation, bench results, and design updates
• Translate system requirements into supplier-ready specifications, negotiate tradeoffs, and interpret supplier test data to make pragmatic choices
• Own the prototype test environment, expand test coverage, and define acceptance criteria tied to field conditions and safety

What You Bring

Technical Toolkit

• High voltage pulse systems, insulation systems, dielectric materials, potting and encapsulation
• Field simulation and circuit modeling, FEM tools, SPICE
• Pulse topologies, capacitors, pulse transformers, resistive dividers, snubbers
• HV PCB layout, creepage and clearance, corona and partial discharge testing
• Test methods, high voltage safety, instrumentation, data acquisition

Professional Experience

• Design, build, and iterate at the component and subsystem level, not just simulate
• Analyze electric field stress and convert insights into geometry, materials, and interfaces
• Communicate with suppliers, translate GA specs, and qualify parts against system behavior
• Operate safely in 40 kV DC input regimes with modest installed power around 40 kW

Nice-to-have

• Downhole or harsh-environment packaging experience, oil and gas tools
• Experience balancing nonstandard pulse requirements beyond textbook Marx designs
• Bilingual collaboration across engineering and manufacturing