Principal Power Electronics Engineer

Placed: 06/12/17
Region: West Midlands
Category: Jobs


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Principal Power Electronics Engineer

Our client is a leading international automotive powertrain company who are enjoying considerable expansion and major contract wins. They now require a Principal Power Electronics Engineer to join their newly created UK Electrical Systems Engineering team with experience of electrical motor control power electronics for EV/hybrid automotive traction applications.

The key functions of the role:

* Lead the design and delivery of motor control power electronics for a variety of customer applications, interfacing directly with the design teams and appropriate project team.
* Capture and manage inverter hardware requirements, developing into specifications; schematics; PCB layouts and drawings, ensuring alignment between internal teams, suppliers and the customer.
* Design and develop inverter hardware, including gate drivers; control boards; DC link components and selection and characterisation of power modules. Use intelligent design to deliver modular and scalable solutions; often based on internal inverter platform development.
* Management and definition of inverter mechanical interfaces and requirements, to include thermal system.
* Develop customer inverter components to the agreed requirements and processes, from concept level through to production.
* Contribute to system and lead inverter-level safety case development, and follow industry standard techniques to ensure a robust design, e.g. FMEA.
* Plan and action Design Verification (DV) and Production Validation (PV) activity at a component level.
* Manage interfaces between the inverter and the rest of the e-powertrain system, liaising with cross-functional teams and the customer.
* Liaison with, including travel to, other sites in order to co-ordinate design activities and ensure delivery is in line with the programme requirements.

Qualifications / Education / Experience required:

* Degree or equivalent in a relevant Engineering or Science related discipline.
* Demonstrable power electronics design experience in an automotive or similar engineering environment.
* Proven experience of developing inverters for production applications and understanding their interfaces and integration into the powertrain systems and vehicle.
* Verifiable experience in inverter Specification; Requirements Capture/Management and DV and PV processes.
* Strong background and knowledge of power electronics, analogue and digital circuits and schematic capture and development. Highly familiar with IGBT and future power switching technologies.
* Good understanding of automotive HV standards; design methodologies and working practices.
* Experience of designing power electronics in accordance with ISO26262 Functional Safety processes and concepts, and an understanding of what this means for hardware design processes and the design realisation.
* Solid understanding of asynchronous and synchronous motor control theory and motor position sensing technologies.
* Confident user of MS Office products and competent user of industry-standard network and calibration tools, e.g. Vector CANalyzer, Vector CANape, ETAS INCA.
* Experienced user of electronic CAD packages (e.g. Altium designer) and simulation packages (e.g. PSpice, LTspice).

Personal attributes:

* Excellent attention to detail with good planning skills.
* Strong communicator, capable of interacting with cross-functional teams both internally and externally.
* Highly self-motivated and independent, with a willingness to seek guidance and involve others whenever required.
* Remain focussed under pressure, familiar with working outside their normal comfort zone.
* Proven record of operating in a customer-facing environment.

This is a permanent, long term opportunity with excellent career prospects and a very competitive salary for the right candidate. Please forward your CV as a matter of urgency or contact Rob Brunt for further information

Benefits: Negotiable) + Bens

Price / Salary: £50000 - £60000/annum (Negotiable) + Bens