Senior Layout & Hardware Designer – Power Electronics

Let us describe the challenge we offer

Polestar is blazing a new trail, dedicating ourselves to the development and refinement of electric vehicle performance. Your experience in Senior Layout and Hardware Designer Power Electronics would be invaluable to us both in developing next generation power electronics for charging and DCDC.

If you are an innovative, open-minded person who believes that electrification is the future of the auto industry, we would like to hear from you.

This position is based at our HQ in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the first year there will be traveling included within Europe.

What you´ll do

Our Propulsion charging team is a part of the Polestar Propulsion Department, is a team with a mission to deliver results which exceed the customers’ expectations. The team consists of software engineers, calibration engineers and system designers. Your responsibilities will be:

- Layout and placement of power-electronics for charger and DCDC components
- Support hardware design team in packaging the PCB into a finalized product, support as well thermal
- Support simulation activities of the schematics and investigate concepts, in Matlab Simscape or LT-PSPICE.


Who you are

You have a strong will to create the future of electric vehicles - it’s probably fair to call you an EV nerd passionate about solving climate changes. You are enthusiastic, motivated, well-organized and driven. You’re not afraid to try new approaches and out of the box methods. You have a holistic view, including vision, business, and customers.

To be successful in this role, we believe you have:

- Ms in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Previous experience in power electronics design
- Previous experience in various tools such as Ansys Optics or Altium designer.


At Polestar, you will be leading a cross-functional and international team, with English as a natural language for written and spoken communication.

Personal fit will be of great importance in this recruitment, as we are actively working to build a team with diverse experience, gender and background.

People at Polestar

We know that a change is needed. We also know that each one of us can help bring about that change. Our commitment to becoming climate-neutral by 2040 is just as important to us as being inclusive, diverse, and innovative. Together, we are creating, collaborating and experimenting to usher in a new era of sustainable mobility.

We are an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in.



Is this you? If you are interested in joining the Polestar family, don't wait with submitting your application. We apply a continuous selection process and the job post will be open until the position is filled.

Are you ready for the journey? Which is electric by the way...