Power Electronics Hardware Design Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Experience: 5+ years in Power Electronics converter hardware design

Required Skills & Responsibilities:

• Power Converter Design & Validation:
  Design, analyze, test, and validate power electronic converters including isolated and nonisolated DCDC converters, battery chargers, and ACDC converters.
• Simulation Expertise:
  Hands-on experience with simulation tools such as LTSpice, PSIM, MATLAB, and PLECS for circuit modeling, performance evaluation, and design optimization.
• Gate Driver Design:
  Strong experience in designing MOSFET/IGBT gate driver circuits, including protection features such as desaturation detection, soft turn-off, and short-circuit protection.
• Component Engineering & Analysis:
  Skilled in component selection, power loss estimation, efficiency optimization, thermal analysis, worstcase calculations, and stability analysis using pole-zero and Bode plot techniques.
• Control Algorithms & Stability:
  Good understanding of control strategies for DCDC converters (voltage mode, current mode, digital control, etc.) with the ability to perform detailed stability analysis via simulations and analytical methods.
• Magnetics Design:
  Thorough understanding of design principles for inductors and transformers, magnetic material selection, core loss estimation, winding techniques, and manufacturing processes.
• Signal Conditioning & Isolation:
  Strong grasp of signal conditioning circuits including current/voltage sense amplifiers, optocouplers, digital isolators, and related isolation techniques.
• PCB Design Support:
  Collaborate with ECAD teams for PCB layout; review designs for DRC, EMC compliance, creepage/clearance, DFM/DFA, thermal considerations, and high-voltage design guidelines.
• Technical Documentation:
  Develop and maintain engineering documentation such as requirement specifications, design documents, test plans, test reports, DFMEAs, and engineering BOMs.

Hardware Bring-Up & Validation:
Experience in hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation of power converter prototypes up to 1 kV / 5 kW ratings, using appropriate test equipment and safety practices