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Boom Supersonic is building Superpower, a 42-megawatt industrial gas turbine derived from supersonic propulsion technology, purpose-built for frontier AI data centers where power demand is scaling faster than the grid can keep up. This role owns the full electrical system — medium voltage and low voltage — and the team that designs, integrates, and delivers it.
The Superpower electrical system spans 13.8kV generation and distribution, generator excitation and protection, step-down transformation, 480VAC skid distribution, motor controls, instrumentation, and every control circuit that keeps the machine running. There is no existing system to reference and no legacy architecture to inherit. You will define it.
This is a player-manager role. You will manage a team of electrical engineers, but you are also expected to do IC work where the need is greatest — whether that means personally closing a hard protection coordination study or making a fast architecture call that the team is stuck on.
The person who thrives here has led strong electrical teams before, holds a genuine technical bar across both medium voltage and low voltage domains, and is energized by the parts of the job nobody has done before.
What you’ll do
- Own Superpower’s integrated MV and LV electrical architecture, translating system requirements into clear designs, equipment specifications, and verification plans.
- Hire, develop, and retain exceptional engineers. Give each person clear ownership, actionable feedback, and meaningful opportunities to grow.
- Establish the protection philosophy across generation and distribution, including generator protection, grounding, coordination, and fault response.
- Define electrical operating sequences across turbine startup, excitation, bus energization, synchronization, load application, shutdown, and recovery.
- Own interfaces between electrical, controls, mechanical, and systems engineering. Make scope boundaries and handoffs explicit, and drive unresolved decisions to closure.
- Lead electrical design reviews and close technical risks early enough to protect program milestones.
- Drive technical selection and integration of generators, switchgear, transformers, motor controls, UPS systems, and protection equipment.
- Own the electrical commissioning strategy, including staged energization, readiness checks, troubleshooting, and operational validation.
What you’ll bring
- A track record of personally leading complex electrical hardware from architecture through first energization and commissioning. You can explain what you owned, what nearly prevented delivery, and which decisions changed the outcome.
- Deep expertise in medium-voltage or low-voltage industrial power systems, with credible working knowledge across both and the ability to hold the technical bar for the complete system.
- Experience with generator-based electrical systems, including excitation, protection, and the interaction between the machine and its distribution network.
- Meaningful experience managing engineers, with specific examples of people you hired, developed, and helped succeed.
- The ability to explain complex technical problems clearly, reason from first principles, and be precise about the limits of your knowledge.
What will set you apart
Early in the role, you will establish a coherent electrical architecture, clear ownership across the team, and a focused plan for closing the most important design risks. You will lead the discipline through design reviews with an integrated protection philosophy and energization concept, then advance equipment sourcing and commissioning readiness toward a system the team can confidently bring to life.
This is an opportunity to define the electrical foundation of a new industrial platform and build the team that delivers it.
You’ll thrive here if
- You’ve led strong electrical teams and still want to get into the schematics, solve hard technical problems, and be there for first energization.
- You make sound decisions with incomplete information, move quickly, and change course when the evidence calls for it.
- You take ownership across disciplines, develop engineers deliberately, and drive complex hardware from an initial architecture to a working system.
What is it REALLY like to work at Boom? Find out here.
Compensation
- M5 Level - Typically 15-20+ years of experience - Base salary range: $184,000 - $245,000
Actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Benefits
Along with competitive pay and meaningful equity, Boom offers:
- Medical coverage, with Boom paying 70% of medical premiums
- Fully paid dental and vision premiums for employee-only coverage
- A $100–$300 company HSA match on eligible medical plans
- A 401(k) with a company match
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Confidential counseling, coaching, and therapy resources for you and your family
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Pet insurance
- A $1,000 contribution to Invest America accounts for Boom babies
- Healthy meals, an on-site gym, and a fully stocked kitchen
- Ongoing wellness events
- Discounts on technology, concerts, and rental cars
- A dedicated real estate team to help you find a home
ITAR Requirement
To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.
Boom is an equal opportunity employer, including for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. We are building a culture of merit and excellence.
Want to build a faster future? Come join Boom.
Boom Supersonic is building Superpower, a 42-megawatt industrial gas turbine derived from supersonic propulsion technology, purpose-built for frontier AI data centers where power demand is scaling faster than the grid can keep up. This role owns the full electrical system — medium voltage and low voltage — and the team that designs, integrates, and delivers it.
The Superpower electrical system spans 13.8kV generation and distribution, generator excitation and protection, step-down transformation, 480VAC skid distribution, motor controls, instrumentation, and every control circuit that keeps the machine running. There is no existing system to reference and no legacy architecture to inherit. You will define it.
This is a player-manager role. You will manage a team of electrical engineers, but you are also expected to do IC work where the need is greatest — whether that means personally closing a hard protection coordination study or making a fast architecture call that the team is stuck on.
The person who thrives here has led strong electrical teams before, holds a genuine technical bar across both medium voltage and low voltage domains, and is energized by the parts of the job nobody has done before.
What you’ll do
- Own Superpower’s integrated MV and LV electrical architecture, translating system requirements into clear designs, equipment specifications, and verification plans.
- Hire, develop, and retain exceptional engineers. Give each person clear ownership, actionable feedback, and meaningful opportunities to grow.
- Establish the protection philosophy across generation and distribution, including generator protection, grounding, coordination, and fault response.
- Define electrical operating sequences across turbine startup, excitation, bus energization, synchronization, load application, shutdown, and recovery.
- Own interfaces between electrical, controls, mechanical, and systems engineering. Make scope boundaries and handoffs explicit, and drive unresolved decisions to closure.
- Lead electrical design reviews and close technical risks early enough to protect program milestones.
- Drive technical selection and integration of generators, switchgear, transformers, motor controls, UPS systems, and protection equipment.
- Own the electrical commissioning strategy, including staged energization, readiness checks, troubleshooting, and operational validation.
What you’ll bring
- A track record of personally leading complex electrical hardware from architecture through first energization and commissioning. You can explain what you owned, what nearly prevented delivery, and which decisions changed the outcome.
- Deep expertise in medium-voltage or low-voltage industrial power systems, with credible working knowledge across both and the ability to hold the technical bar for the complete system.
- Experience with generator-based electrical systems, including excitation, protection, and the interaction between the machine and its distribution network.
- Meaningful experience managing engineers, with specific examples of people you hired, developed, and helped succeed.
- The ability to explain complex technical problems clearly, reason from first principles, and be precise about the limits of your knowledge.
What will set you apart
Early in the role, you will establish a coherent electrical architecture, clear ownership across the team, and a focused plan for closing the most important design risks. You will lead the discipline through design reviews with an integrated protection philosophy and energization concept, then advance equipment sourcing and commissioning readiness toward a system the team can confidently bring to life.
This is an opportunity to define the electrical foundation of a new industrial platform and build the team that delivers it.
You’ll thrive here if
- You’ve led strong electrical teams and still want to get into the schematics, solve hard technical problems, and be there for first energization.
- You make sound decisions with incomplete information, move quickly, and change course when the evidence calls for it.
- You take ownership across disciplines, develop engineers deliberately, and drive complex hardware from an initial architecture to a working system.
What is it REALLY like to work at Boom? Find out here.
Compensation
- M5 Level - Typically 15-20+ years of experience - Base salary range: $184,000 - $245,000
Actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Benefits
Along with competitive pay and meaningful equity, Boom offers:
- Medical coverage, with Boom paying 70% of medical premiums
- Fully paid dental and vision premiums for employee-only coverage
- A $100–$300 company HSA match on eligible medical plans
- A 401(k) with a company match
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Confidential counseling, coaching, and therapy resources for you and your family
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Pet insurance
- A $1,000 contribution to Invest America accounts for Boom babies
- Healthy meals, an on-site gym, and a fully stocked kitchen
- Ongoing wellness events
- Discounts on technology, concerts, and rental cars
- A dedicated real estate team to help you find a home
ITAR Requirement
To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.
Boom is an equal opportunity employer, including for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. We are building a culture of merit and excellence.
Want to build a faster future? Come join Boom.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Manufacturing
- Construction & Real Estate
- Transportation & Logistics
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of electrical engineering jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field
- 10 or more years of electrical engineering experience with at least 3 in a leadership role
- Proven experience managing cross-functional engineering teams through full product development cycles
- Proficiency with CAD tools such as Altium, Cadence, or equivalent PCB design software
- Experience with hardware validation, EMC compliance, and regulatory certification processes
- Familiarity with DFMEA, design for manufacturability, and new product introduction processes
Tips for Your Director of Electrical Engineering Job Search
Tailor your resume to program scope
Hiring managers for director-level roles want to see the scale of programs you've led, not just technologies used. Quantify team size, annual budget ownership, and product cycles you've driven from concept through production.
Highlight cross-functional leadership explicitly
Many director of electrical engineering candidates lose out because their resume reads as deeply technical but not cross-functional. Show where you've aligned with manufacturing, firmware, or product teams to ship a program on schedule and within spec.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of electrical engineering openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by industry to target your search
Defense, semiconductor, and clean energy companies each write job descriptions for this role very differently. Focusing your search by industry lets you tailor your materials and avoid applying to roles where your hardware background won't translate well.
Prepare a system architecture narrative for interviews
Expect at least one deep-dive round where you walk through a full architecture decision you owned. Practice explaining the tradeoffs you made between reliability, cost, and schedule in plain language for a mixed technical and executive audience.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base salary
Director-level electrical engineering offers often include equity, signing bonuses, and relocation packages that vary widely by company stage. Know which components matter most to you before the offer call so you can respond confidently and specifically.
Director of Electrical Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of electrical engineerings?
MEADE ENGINEERING, Whoop, and Brelle are hiring the most director of electrical engineerings right now, with openings concentrated in California, Arizona, and Michigan, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Defense contractors and semiconductor companies tend to post the highest volume of director-level openings at any given time.
How many director of electrical engineering jobs are remote?
About 14% of director of electrical engineering openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting that most hardware roles require lab access or on-site manufacturing oversight. Sub-disciplines closer to firmware, systems architecture, or program management tend to offer the most flexibility for remote or hybrid arrangements.
How do you become a director of electrical engineering?
Most directors start as individual contributors in a hardware or systems engineering role, then move into a team lead or principal engineer position where they own a subsystem and mentor others. From there, taking on program ownership, managing a small team through a full product launch, and building a record of cross-functional delivery positions you for a director title. An advanced degree can help in research-heavy or defense sectors, but demonstrated leadership and technical breadth matter more at this level.
Can you get a director of electrical engineering job without prior management experience?
It's uncommon but possible, particularly at early-stage hardware companies or startups where the role is newly created. The most practical path without formal management experience is to take on a staff or principal engineer role that includes mentoring, technical roadmap ownership, and cross-team coordination. That combination closely mirrors what directors actually do and gives you concrete examples to reference in interviews when you're making the case for a first management role.
What does the director of electrical engineering interview process look like?
Most director-level processes include a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call focused on leadership philosophy and program experience, a technical deep-dive on a past architecture or design decision, and a panel round with engineering peers and cross-functional stakeholders such as product and manufacturing. Some companies add a presentation round where you walk through how you'd approach a current engineering challenge. The full process typically runs across multiple weeks.
Where can I find and apply to director of electrical engineering jobs?
You can find and apply to director of electrical engineering jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search for roles that match your hardware background and seniority, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience.
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