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Quick Question:

Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Experience with power relays, either designing power relays, designing systems incorporating power relays or supporting customers and applications that use power relays.
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Quick Question:

Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Knowledge and technical design and/or test skills for power systems relating to industrial markets up to 1kV and 50A, both AC and DC solutions. (Up to 5kV and 200A is a plus).
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Quick Question:

Within the last 5 years, what role did the following play in your job:
Experience working with customers in one or more of the following markets: automotive, industrial automation, home automation, renewable energy, transmission and distribution.
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Senior Systems Application Engineer - Power
CA - Irvine


Opportunity Snapshot
Top reasons to consider aligning your career with Menlo Micro
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Influence the product roadmap and the future of a well-funded venture with strong momentum

If you have strong design experience with high-voltage power architectures and/or industrial controls applications along with strong customer-facing skills, this position offers you some career-changing opportunities. You will:
  • Play a key role in a major strategic initiative to take next-generation power relay products to market. Quick question for you - click here
  • Serve as one of the first additions to our power team, influencing the roadmap for our proprietary Ideal Switch™ technology. You'll participate in leadership decision-making processes.
  • Enjoy strong support -- our senior leaders and investors believe strongly in the competitive edge inherent in our technology.
  • Play a dual role involving both hands-on design work in the lab as well as working on the front lines with clients, architecting solutions to meet their requirements.
  • Enjoy the best of both worlds: the innovative, energized, growth atmosphere of a startup, built on a strong and stable foundation of investors -- industry giants GE Ventures, Corning and Paladin Capital -- and fully realized products.
While all startups come with a degree of risk, with the technology, investor base and extraordinary team we've put in place, Menlo Micro is already establishing a strong track record of success and a promising future.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, Menlo Micro is a spin-off from GE Global Research that is leveraging more than 10-years of R&D and GE's proven Digital-Micro-Switch (DMS) technology to create a scalable product development platform that drives disruptive shifts in digitally controlled, RF, smart, high-power switching applications with Smart-Relay-Systems. Our goal is to enable the future of Power IoT and Communications today.

Pictured: The MM5130 is the world’s first generally available high-power RF SP4T Ideal Switch. It can handle 25 W forward power while providing ultra-low insertion loss. It has superior linearity from 26 GHz down to DC and performs more than 3 billion switching cycles. The four switch channels are individually controllable by applying voltage to the corresponding RF GATE pin.
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Point of the Spear in a Key Strategic Initiative to Bring Disruptive Power Relay Solutions to Market

The Requirements
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To be a strong fit for the role of Senior Systems Applications Engineer – Power, you will have:
  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a minimum of 8 years of demonstrated experience in Power Systems or Industrial Controls.
  • Knowledge and technical design and/or test skills for power systems relating to industrial markets up to 1kV and 50A, both AC and DC solutions. Quick question for you - click here
  • Experience with power relays, either designing power relays, designing systems incorporating power relays, or supporting customers and applications that use power relays.
  • Experience working with customers in one or more of the following markets: automotive, industrial automation, home automation, renewable energy, and/or transmission and distribution.
  • Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio, as well as power system design software.
  • Work authorization that allows you to work in the United States.
Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
  • Strong communication skills to influence senior engineering managers on issues that may have major financial and business implications.
  • Good organization skills with the flexibility to handle multiple tasks and set priorities to meet goals in a fast-paced, fast-growing start-up environment.
  • The ability to build effective relationships and influence outcomes.
  • Innovative strategic planning skills, including the ability to assess and manage risks, and translate corporate and business unit goals and objectives into realistic marketing and sales plans.
Preferred but not required:
  • An EE degree with a Masters in Engineering with PE certification, along with 10+ years of experience.
  • Knowledge of industry codes and standards; ANSI, IEEE, IEC, NEC, NEMA, NFPA 70E, UL, Papers submitted and presented for industry groups would be a plus.
  • Knowledge and technical design and/or test skills for power systems relating to MV and LV switchgear, motors, and overall power systems products 5 years minimum experience.
  • Knowledge and technical design and/or test skills for power systems relating to industrial markets up to 5kV and 200A.
  • Experience in a global environment interfacing with many cultures and languages.
We are taking appropriate steps to ensure the health and safety of all employees. We'll expect you to work on-site three to five days a week, with a goal of working on-site full time once it is safe. In addition, once it is safe, you will need to be willing and able to travel up to 25% of the time.

Pictured: The MM9000-series uses massive arrays of miniaturized mechanical switches configured in parallel to handle larger currents, all while maintaining stable operation by sharing current between devices. We have developed a Power Relay Prototype Platform so that select customers can evaluate the potential of the MM9000-series. You'll play an important role in driving this platform to production.
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The Role
If you meet the minimum qualifications, feel free to apply at any time. If you'd like some additional details about the role, please read below.
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Menlo Micro's Ideal Switch platform is a game changer for those who design electronic systems, serving multiple industries including next-generation 5G mobile networks, industrial IoT markets, battery management, home automation, electronic vehicles and medical instrumentation.

Reporting to Menlo’s Co-Founder and SVP Marketing, you will be responsible for working closely with Engineering to help develop next-generation power relay products, utilizing our proprietary Ideal Switch™ technology. You also will provide key technical support to lead customers and partners, working with Sales and Marketing to define the power relay roadmap, promote and advocate for Menlo products and grow the business. Quick question for you - click here

This is a core position and one of our first additions to Menlo Micro’s power team. You will serve as both a hands-on applications engineer working on validating our latest designs, and as a technical expert and sales support guru influencing at the customer level. You will spend time on the front lines with clients collecting feedback and architecting solutions to meet their requirements. You will spend time in the lab to develop prototypes. Your work will be highly visible within Menlo Micro and to our investors.

You will work in a fast-paced, innovative team environment, working with all functions in the Menlo team from product development, to sales, to test and marketing. More specifically, you will:
  • Work with Marketing, Sales, and customers during the evaluation of Menlo products in order to resolve any technical issues and drive design-in/design-win activities.
  • Interpret customers' specifications, application requirements and recommend the right solutions and provide technical product support.
  • Gather market commercial and technical information to justify new product line additions.
  • Build and maintain strong business relationships with customers to drive/increase sales and ensure an exceptional customer experience solving customer challenges.
  • Work with sales to assist in developing the pipeline for future sales activity through regular interactions with customers.
  • Present technology concepts to customers/partners in support of pre-sales activities.
  • Make periodic customer visits to assess customer needs and provide key support to sales and other partners.
  • Create presentations to demonstrate innovative designs, document performance, and communicate architecture ideas and capabilities.
  • Provide technical support to internal and external customers for Menlo’s power relay products.
  • Participate in technical seminars, trade shows, driving the thought leadership and technical merits of Menlo’s power relay solutions.
  • Architect, design, simulate, layout, test, and troubleshoot power relay-based product demonstrations for a broad array of industrial controls markets.
  • Perform simulations as necessary to support customer requests and recommend solutions that help with product selection and adoption.
  • Work with design engineers to create supporting documents such as datasheets and application notes.
  • Work with Marketing, Engineering and Menlo’s customers to ensure that new products are market leaders that provide clear system-level differentiation.
Pictured: A traditional power EMR compared to a Menlo power relay.
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Why Join Us
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Strategic impact
We're looking for a seasoned professional who can guide us as we expand product development in the power market. You'll be instrumental in helping us expand our capabilities in this area, in support of a high-profile initiative.

Ground-floor opportunity
We've been in business for three years and, while our first-year revenues were in the millions, we're still a small group. This is your chance to be part of a high-potential business, play an influential role in our ongoing strong growth, and build a long-term career home.

Ground-breaking technology
Born out of a decade-long effort at General Electric's Global Research Center, Menlo Micro is bringing to the market a series of technology innovations that have enabled us to reinvent one of the most essential and fundamental building blocks required for nearly every electronic system imaginable . . . the switch.

Top talent
You'll work with seasoned leaders with decades of combined experience and wins ranging from past startup success to success at major corporations, as well as with talented individual contributors. All of our team members bring tremendous skill and a proven track record of success, ranging from important journal publications to a plethora of patents to business and leadership successes, both domestic and international, and more. You will add your own strong skills to that talent, and also have plenty of opportunities to learn and further develop your skills.

Strong foundation
Unlike most startups, we have a decade of research behind us and $18.7 million of backing to get us started. We already have clients with needs ranging from home automation to wireless power-charging and are in production with a product that will support GE's MRI technology. In fact, we're already so far along that we've added a supply chain team and we just launched the business in December 2016! In other words, you will enjoy the entrepreneurial atmosphere of a high-potential startup without worrying about the usual startup risks.

Excellent compensation and perks
We value our employees and offer:
  • Competitive compensation and a robust, comprehensive benefits plan that includes a range of insurances, a 401(K) plan, paid time off and more.
  • Equity! You'll join us on the ground floor and can earn stock options, which could be lucrative over the long term.
  • Great work/life balance. While this is not a 9-5 role, we don't work typical startup hours. We still enjoy most evenings and weekends away from the office.
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Road to Success
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In order to work with sales and customers to define and deploy disruptive products to the market, this role requires a strong mix of technical skills to work on disruptive power management and controls solutions, as well as power electronics market knowledge and applications use case understanding. Just as important in our small company culture are interpersonal and communication skills. You'll collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, and you should have the leadership and influencing skills to drive results.

While we enjoy benefits and security beyond a normal startup, ours is still a startup environment. To thrive and excel here, you'll need a strong sense of ownership and accountability. This will include assuming the role of subject matter expert and taking a proactive approach to staying abreast of emerging technologies and market factors.

Our best people are those who are passionate about making a difference. You should be comfortable in a rapidly growing environment where ambiguity is the norm. Flexibility and adaptability will be critical to success.
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Menlo Microsystems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Human Resources Department at jdibenedetto@engage2excel.com.