1 week ago
Principal Power Electronic Engineer
Warwick 46K - 68K Permanent
Job Reference: 1229863
Posted on behalf of
Sprint Power
The Principal / Senior Power Electronics Engineer will:
- Provide technical ownership of power electronic circuits, through concept, development and validation
- Provide technical delivery of development activities to meet timescale and cost targets for R&D products and customer projects
- Support the planning of power electronics-related activities
- Interface with suppliers and partners with technical requirements and feedback for existing and new designs
- Work closely with other engineering disciplines (e.g. embedded SW, PCB layout, mechanical design etc.) to develop complete systems
- Support system integration by providing debugging capability and validation support
The successful Principal / Senior Power Electronics Engineer will have:
- Degree qualified in an Engineering or Science related discipline as a minimum; ideally Chartered or working toward Chartership status
- A minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience successfully supporting development projects in an automotive, aerospace or similar electronic engineering environment
- Experience in the design and analysis of DCDC converters and inverters, up to and above 20kW and >60V using MOSFET, IGBT and wide-bandgap technologies
- Strong knowledge of a broad range of isolated and non-isolated topologies
- Use of schematic capture and PCB layout tools (preferably Altium Designer)
- Experience in mathematical modelling and simulation of circuits and systems, e.g. SPICE, PLECS
- Use of reliability, risk or safety analysis tools for the analysis of hardware, e.g. FTA, DFMEA
- Qualification of systems to automotive standards, including EMC and environmental testing
- An understanding of functional safety analysis, design, and validation to standards such as ISO26262 or similar
- Experience in either developing or supporting converter control software is an advantage
