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Salary: USD 145,000 - 184,000 / annual
Boom Supersonic is building Superpower, a 42 MW gas turbine designed to power AI data centers with unprecedented electrical performance and reliability. The electrical system is critical to the engine's operation—it senses, protects, and delivers power under conditions nothing else has been built to handle.
You will own the complete electrical architecture for major portions of Superpower, spanning power distribution, protection systems, instrumentation, and controls interfaces. This is a full-stack role: you will drive the system from first concept through finalized, validated, running hardware. You will design and build the systems that monitor, protect, and sense the engine under real operating conditions, partnering directly with propulsion, mechanical, controls, and test engineering teams to integrate electrical systems into a gas turbine platform built from scratch.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own electrical architecture end-to-end, from concept through schematic capture, hardware bring-up, and field validation
- Design and build monitoring, protection, and sensing systems for the engine under real operating conditions
- Partner with cross-functional teams (propulsion, mechanical, controls, test) to integrate electrical systems into the turbine platform
- Manage vendor relationships for critical outsourced hardware components
- Lead root-cause investigation when hardware doesn't behave as modeled, in real time during testing
- Set technical direction for other engineers working within your electrical system scope
This role is ideal if you have owned electrical systems end-to-end rather than handing off designs and waiting for test data. You think in systems, moving fluidly between power electronics, protection, instrumentation, and controls because you understand how they interact. You prefer debugging at the test cell to writing white papers. You want to set architecture and defend tradeoffs yourself, not execute someone else's spec. You're energized by ambiguity and write specs when none exist.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years designing and proving electrical systems for power-dense, safety-critical, or first-of-its-kind hardware (grid-scale battery systems like Megapack/Powerpack, motorsport power units such as F1/Formula E/IndyCar/LMDh/LMH, aerospace/satellite power and avionics, or comparable high-performance electrical platforms)
- Real depth in at least two of: power distribution, protection systems, instrumentation, high-power electronics, or controls hardware; working fluency across all of them
- Track record of taking a system from blank page to tested hardware and owning what happens when it doesn't work the first time
- Comfort making difficult decisions with incomplete information and ability to quickly respond when new information invalidates those decisions
- Hands-on lab and test experience where you debug with a probe in your hand, not just a datasheet
- ITAR requirement: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
