Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
- 1-3+ years’ experience in high-voltage power electronics design, development and testing – DC/AC Inverters, DCDC Converters, On-Board Chargers, Power Distribution in Automotive, On/Off-Highway, Motorsports, Stationary etc.
- Strong communication, client awareness, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to create a project plan that establishes resources (human, capitol, and outsource), effort, duration costs.
- Experienced in developing and maintaining supplier relationships.
- Highly motivated to succeed, a self-starter who is driven and able to work with others effectively to "get things done"
- Extremely high attention to detail in all aspects of task execution
- Experience working with 48V, 400V, and >800V voltage levels and component selections.
- Hands on experience in power electronics hardware development including design, debugging and validation of:
Semiconductor switching waveforms, loss modeling and thermal management
Magnetic components
Protection devices and safety issues
Printed circuit board layout, interconnection, packaging, EMC and EMI
Circuit simulation and computer-aided design tools (CAD)
PCB bring-up, bench-test & troubleshooting knowledge
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters or PhD in relevant field and 5+ years’ experience.
- Fundamental understanding of switched-mode power conversion as applied to DC and AC circuits and systems
- Knowledgeable in IGBT, Si/SiC, and GaN MOSFET technology and selection.
- Working knowledge of IGBT/MOSFET gate drive circuits.
- Experience in analog, digital and mix signal hardware design.
- Knowledge of feedback control and stability.
- Control expertise and digital implementation for power converters controls.
- Experience with schematic capture (Altium preferred) and simulation tools (PLECS) for power electronics.
- Experience in PCB layout for power electronics (Altium preferred): minimal stray inductance, EMC/EMI optimization.
- Design for Manufacturing, Design for reliability, DFMEA and fault trees.
- Background designing for UL and CE safety requirements and EMC.
