Jon Mash

Hardware Engineer · Seattle Area

Jon Mash

I'm Jon Mash, a hardware engineer in the Seattle area. I run Mash Engineering, and I write at High-Z.

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About

Background

I was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. I'm currently Director of Hardware at BRINC Drones, where I own Electrical, Mechanical, and Test for the company's hardware. Before BRINC, I was at Amazon Leo (Kuiper), building the technology to deliver internet connectivity to unserved and under-served communities globally, and before Leo, I was at Amazon Prime Air, developing drone technology for autonomous package delivery.

I hold an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University (2013), where I was part of the ePOWER laboratory under Dr. Praveen Jain researching wind turbine control, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, also from Queen's.

Areas of focus

  • Hardware architecture
  • Avionics
  • Spacecraft subsystems
  • PCB design
  • Signal integrity
  • Power integrity
  • Embedded systems
  • Electrical engineering

Career

Programs I've worked on

BRINC Drones

Director of Hardware · February 2023–Present

Own all hardware for the company's products: Electrical, Mechanical, and Test, across drones and ground support equipment, from initial concept through out-the-door production and customer support. Grew the engineering team from under 5 to 40+.

Amazon: Leo (Kuiper)

Hardware Development Manager, Avionics & Endpoints · Redmond, WA · November 2020–February 2023

Recruited and led a cross-functional team of 14+ electrical, systems, and SI/PI engineers. Owned the satellite flight computer, vehicle communication bus, magnetometer, sun sensor, magnetorquers, propulsion control unit, and solar array deployment unit, plus a multi-million dollar development budget.

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  • Responsible for architecture, requirements, development, testing, and qualification of hardware across the team's subsystems.
  • Liaison between Design Engineering and the Systems, Reliability, Hardware Test, and Manufacturing Engineering teams.
  • Completed over 270 interviews at Amazon while building the team.

Amazon: Prime Air

Hardware Development Manager, then Sr. Hardware Development Engineer · April 2016–November 2020

Owned vehicle power distribution, sensor systems, and ground station equipment. Managed org-wide electrical engineering support, Altium ECAD administration, and design-standards documentation.

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  • Oversaw requirements derivation, development, testing, and qualification of Avionics subsystems, and supported their integration into the vehicle.
  • Managed an external vendor relationship to reduce the size, weight, and power of the power regulation subsystem.
  • Earlier, as Hardware Development Engineer: owned the hardware process end to end (component selection, PCB design, prototyping, testing) and developed firmware for a ground RF link, including a BSP and unit/regression/integration tests.

SPARQ Systems: Monitoring and Control

Lead Product Development Engineer · November 2010–April 2016

Led development of two generations of monitoring equipment for solar microinverters: a low-power ARM communication hub using power-line communication, then a Linux single-board system using Zigbee, each with an associated cloud monitoring portal.

ePOWER: Centre for Energy and Power Electronics Research

Engineering Research Assistant · 2009–2013

Developed nonlinear control strategies for PMSG-connected wind turbines and built a wind turbine emulator using an induction motor coupled to a permanent magnet synchronous generator for research use.

Education

Queen's University

M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering

April 2013 · Centre for Energy and Power Electronics Research, supervised by Dr. Praveen Jain

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering

May 2009 · First Class Honours

Publications

Intelligent Electrical System for Vehicle

US Patent 11094146B1 · Amazon Technologies Inc.

Nonlinear Control of Wind Energy Conversion System Based on Control-Lyapunov Functions

J. Mash, M. Pahlevaninezhad, P. Jain · IEEE ECCE 2013, Denver, CO

Adaptive Passivity-Based Nonlinear Controller for Wind Energy Conversion Systems

J. Mash, M. Pahlevaninezhad, P. Jain · IEEE APEC 2014, Ft. Worth, TX

Port-Controlled Hamiltonian (PCH)-Based Control Approach for Wind Energy Conversion Systems

M. Pahlevaninezhad, S. Pan, J. Mash, P. Jain · IEEE PEDG 2014, Galway, Ireland

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Seattle area, WA