Power Electronics Engineer - Advanced (44071)
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000
Location: Wiltshire , South West
Posted Date: 10/07/2019
Expiry Date: 09/08/2019
Our client offers a unique opportunity for a talented and experienced Power Electronics Engineer (BMS) based in their Technical Research Team.
Accountabilities:
The power electronics role will involve:
- The development of battery management systems and assessment of alternative battery management solutions and topologies depending on the product requirements
- Ensuring battery management systems meet regulatory and company requirements for safety
- Charger design and writing detailed charger specifications
- Working with the different product teams to gain an indepth product understanding, while using knowledge of the latest technologies to create innovative power electronics systems and solutions
- Ensuring designs can comply with relevant EMC/EMI standards and modifying design where needed to ensure this is the case
- Thermal management design of power electronics systems
- Design of both mains and battery powered electronics to meet global requirements
- The design of heater control hardware and associated protection hardware
- Power converter design
Skills:
Education and experience:
- Minimum BEng/MEng degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or other relevant discipline
Minimum technical knowledge:
Power Electronics:
- Design of battery management systems, especially for Lithium-Ion technology
- Some battery application experience, specifically with regard to safety systems and determining system parameters
- Knowledge of heater control hardware, control schemes and heater protection approaches
- Thermal management approaches for surface mount and through hole devices
- SMPS and linear regulator power supply design
- Design of power electronics for both low voltage and mains voltage systems
- General knowledge of power electronic devices, including silicon based IGBTs and MOSFETs through to emerging wide bandgap technologies o Understanding of device characteristics and issues with switching behaviour in real circuits as well as power switch driver design
- Device selection - Interpretation of datasheets and knowledge of design methods to confidently select the lowest cost devices while achieving reliability targets o Knowledge and experience of using power hybrid modules and power SoC modules (e.g. drivers and power switches in one device)
Design Tools:
- Schematic capture using Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics or other main stream tools
- Use of SPICE based simulation tools such as Simetrix and LTspice
- Design calculation tools such as Mathcad, Matlab, Excel.
Design Techniques:
- Circuit simulation and design tolerance analysis
- Good quality engineering process understanding and appreciation
Benefits:
27 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holidays
Pension scheme
Performance related bonus
Life assurance
Sport centre
Free on-site parking
Subsidised café and restaurants
Applications:
Please send your CV with salary expectations and notice period to david. powers @jonlee.co.uk.