Power Electronics Engineer - Hardware

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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?
220-235k Base Salary!
7.5 % Annual Bonus!
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 +5 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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