AI Native Electrical Engineer

About Hayla

The Role

What You’ll Do

• Design and prototype power conversion, switching, and distribution circuits for DC systems, including 800-V-class architectures
• Develop gate driver circuits for fast-switching, modern semiconductor devices
• Perform modeling and simulation across electrical, thermal, and system domains (SPICE and similar tools)
• Implement protection and sensing circuitry for current, voltage, temperature, and fault conditions
• Conduct iterative hardware bring-up, characterization, and validation using high-power lab equipment
• Optimize PCB and mechanical layouts for switching performance, thermal reliability, EMI/EMC, and manufacturability
• Collaborate with embedded and controls engineers to integrate digital control interfaces (MCUs, DSPs, FPGAs, or similar platforms)
• Design hardware that supports dynamic power routing and rapid reconfiguration under real-time control
• Participate in design reviews, documentation, component selection, reliability assessments, and structured test planning
• Work cross-functionally with system architecture, thermal/mechanical engineering, and compute/power infrastructure teams to ensure system-level integration
• Help shape lab workflows, test procedures, and engineering practices for high-voltage development

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience designing, prototyping, and testing power electronics systems
• Extreme familiarity with the latest AI development approaches (Claude, Codex, Agents, Agent Harnesses)
• Strong foundation in high-voltage or high-power converter topologies and semiconductor behavior
• Hands-on experience with gate-driver design and fast-switching architectures
• Proficiency with simulation tools (SPICE variants, PLECS, PSIM, or similar platforms)
• Confidence working with high-power and high-voltage lab equipment
• Experience debugging challenging electrical issues across switching, timing, sensing, and protection domains
• Ability to drive designs from schematic → layout → prototype → validated hardware
• Comfortable working in a small, high-ownership environment with fast iteration cycles

Bonus Points

• Experience with medium- or high-voltage DC systems from EV, industrial power, telecom, renewable, or data center environments
• Exposure to embedded or digital control architectures and real-time control systems
• Familiarity with high-current interconnects, bus bars, thermal/mechanical integration, insulation coordination, and creepage/clearance design
• Background in reliability engineering, derating analysis, safety reviews, or power-system compliance standards
• Experience with lab setup, equipment selection, or building new testing workflows
• Prior startup, R&D, or zero-to-one hardware development experience

Why Join Hayla

• Build foundational technology for the future of AI data-center power
• Opportunity to design and work in a modern and evolving workflow
• Unlimited access to tools and software to move quickly
• Take broad ownership across power hardware, system integration, and real-time control
• Work in a fast-moving environment where designs become real hardware quickly
• Competitive compensation with meaningful early-stage equity
• Collaborate with a senior, multidisciplinary team across power, controls, embedded systems, and AI infrastructure

Compensation