Senior Power Electronics Engineer
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Location
Leamington Spa
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
Market related
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Contact:
Paul Robson
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Contact email:
paul.robson@jonlee.co.uk
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Contact phone:
01384 446117
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Job ref:
56431
Senior Power Electronics Engineer – Leamington Spa - £ Competitive + Excellent benefits
A Senior Power Electronics Engineer is required for an expanding, high-technology engineering company. The successful candidate will deliver the design, build and test of power electronic systems for innovative automotive electrification applications; and will play a key part in ensuring future success within this rapidly expanding industry sector. The successful candidate will work within a highly-regarded, multi-disciplinary and growing engineering team.
As Senior Power Electronics Engineer you will
- Be responsible for technical ownership of power electronic circuits, through concept, development and validation.
- Provide technical delivery of development activities to meet timescales 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.
As Senior Power Electronics Engineer you will have
- A minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience, successfully supporting development projects in an automotive engineering environment.
- Be experienced in the design and analysis of DC-DC converters and inverters (DC-AC), up to and above 20 kW and high input voltage range 200V- 1kV using MOSFET, IGBT, SiC and GaN technologies.
- Strong knowledge of a broad range of isolated and non-isolated topologies, including magnetics (inductors, transformers) design.
- Use of schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
- 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.
- An appreciation of rotating machine design and motor principles.
- Writing technical documentation. e.g. Worst Case Analysis.
Suitably qualified and experienced Power Electronics Engineers should apply today by contacting Paul Robson at Jonathan Lee Recruitment +44(0)1384 446146 or by emailing their CV and covering letter to paul.robson@jonlee.co.uk.
Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.