Electrical Engineer

Job Title: Electrical Engineer

Location: Onsite /Mossville, IL

About this Role

• Work with a highly skilled and collaborative team to develop critical electrification components
• Develop deep and hands-on technical skills in power electronics component development including testing, validation, analysis, design, and issue resolution
• Gain high voltage and high-power experience in off-highway electric drivetrain

Typical task breakdown:

• High current, high voltage up to 3killwatts, and high temperature component testing (current sensors, large DC link capacitors, power modules, PCBs).
• Test planning, documentation, fixture setup, test execution, data processing and analysis, summarizing and reporting of test results, failure analysis.
• Review engineering drawings, technical requirements, and specifications
• Utilize quality tools and processes including FMEA, APQP & PPAP.

Interaction with team:

• Collaboration with Client's SME, NPI/NTI leads, test engineers, and technicians.
• Collaboration with the Client India and Client China team (electrical design, release of component prints, 3D models).
• Supplier development. Limited travel to suppliers.

Team Structure: Team of 8 engineers. Will work closely under power device team lead

Work environment:

• Office and lab environment.
• PPE gear boots, googles

50/50 depending on what they're working on

Education & Experience Required:

• Years of experience: 10
• Degree requirement: BS in Electrical Engineering required. M.S. preferred. Power Electronics focus preferred.
• Not open to 2-year degrees
• Do you accept internships as job experience: No
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Power Electronics Component Design Engineer

Top 3 Skills

• Hands-on test experience with component development for electric drive applications in high-power high-reliability applications.
• Coordinate development, review, and execution of test plans (test fixtures, instrumentation, resources, tools, schedule, processes, measurement equipment, analysis of test results, preparation of technical reports, design reviews, failure analysis).
• Experience with using dataloggers, oscilloscopes, HV differential probe, current transducer, thermal chambers, high voltage power supplies, high current power supplies.

Additional Technical Skills

(Required)

• Experience with Pythons, MATLAB, Excel, and JBER for test data analysis.

(Desired)

• Experience with working across different engineering disciplines (electrical and mechanical engineers, thermal simulation, quality, manufacturing, purchasing).
• Double pulse testing of power modules
• Improvement or development of alternative testing methods and tools.
• Estimates time and resources required for execution of test plan.

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Experience in Microsoft tools (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc.)
• Self-starter who can understand a task or program's status, generate action items, identify problems, and initiate actions

(Desired)

• Experience working with customers and suppliers and a global team (India, China, Europe)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to lead/facilitate discussions and generate conclusions, able to navigate a matrix organization

Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:

• Frequent job moves
• No hands-on, in the lab testing experience
• Ph.D. degrees are overqualified

Client Notes: Supplier Notes

Some domestic travel

Role: Testing and Validation Engineer but not a 100% testing role

Overview:

• Planning of test, designing the setup and analyze results.
• Designing or developing the subcomponents of Power Electronics

Top Skills:

• Power Electronics background
• Experience testing a power converter or inverter or a power device
• hands on lab experience
• High Voltage systems

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors with 8-10+ years of experience
• Masters with 7 years of experience

Interview: 2 rounds