Power Electronics Engineer - Hardware

Design the Hardware Behind High-Performance Systems

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Salary: $200,000 - $250,000 per year

A bit about us:

Based in Cypress, CA and focus our Engineering efforts on Engineering and Manufacturing cleaner and greener power resources. Our products are designed to both harvest and use energy in the most environmentally safe way possible for our EcoSystem. We service the Oil & Gas as well as the Defense Industries, providing pumps, generators, and TurboExpanders.

Why join us?

• 200-250k Salary!
• Annual Bonuses!
• Flexible Work Schedules!
• 401K Matching!
• Accelerated Career Growth!
• Challenging Problems!

Job Details

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Evaluate customer/project requirements and selecting appropriate topologies for DC/AC and DC/DC applications
• Perform as a lead design engineer for power electronics products including all essential engineering analysis aspects from initial planning stages through study, design, and test.
• Lead, design, develop and test advanced power electronics, such as converters and inverters, using medium to high power switching components (hundreds of kW) and associated protection and gating circuitry.
• Selecting active semiconductor switching devices as well as passive components required for converter power circuits (capacitors, inductors, transformers, etc).
• Lead verification testing on new designs and products
• Analyze switching and transient behavior of devices to determine limits, proper gating, operation and implementation
• Design analysis including modeling, simulation, and control loops
• Optimize designs with an eye toward efficiency, density, and cost
• Conduct design reviews and follow NPI process
• Perform hands-on lab work building and debugging prototypes
• Perform electrical characterization, design validation, and qualification
• Introduce the product into production
• Provide technical support for production and field product issues
• Lead projects and collaborate in cross-functional teams
• Prepare invention disclosures to protect intellectual property
• Mentor junior engineers
• Lead the activities and collaboration with contractors to outsource project tasks, track the progress per project schedule, and report it to management team

Required Skills, Experience, Education, and Abilities:

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering with focus on power electronics and having +8 years of industry experience. PhD is plus.
• Strong understanding of power inverters operation and design
• Strong understanding of 3-phase power systems
• Strong skillset of debugging power electronics circuits
• Experience with space vector, sinusoidal, and/or discontinuous PWM schemes.
• Strong knowledge of digital, analog and power electronic circuits design, test, and debugging
• Experience with power electronics test equipment such as scope, DC/AC electronics load, DC/AC power sources, current and voltage probes
• Experience with SiC and GaN devices-based power converter design
• Strong circuit simulation experience (Matlab Simulink/PLECS/ LTSpice)

Desired Skills and Experience

• Perform power electronic circuit design (create schematic symbols and layout footprints, design schematic and layout, and create BOM) in Altium
• Magnetics design and optimization
• High frequency magnetics design knowledge
• Ability to drive, understand and adhere to product roadmaps, define new platforms, and extend products for power inverters (DC/AC)
• Ability to prepare test reports, conclude the outcome of test results, provide the next steps in test plan, and present it to management level
• Create high density PCB layout with noise and EMI mitigation

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