Sr. Power Electronics Engineer

Company: GCR Professional Services
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: February 9, 2025

Job Description:

Sr. Power Electronics Engineer

The full job description covers all associated skills, previous experience, and any qualifications that applicants are expected to have.

A Senior Power Electronics Engineer designs, specifies, develops, and tests power system architectures and requirements for a wide array of applications, including miniature power conversion and management circuitry, distributed power architectures, radiation hardened designs, novel battery management circuitry, small motor controllers, switched-mode power conversion and precision feedback systems. They also perform a variety of engineering work in the initial planning and design phase of specifications and requirements of the systems.

Duties/Responsibilities
--- Design, develop, and build power system architectures.
--- Conduct research, design, development, and testing of hardware such as miniature power conversion and management circuitry, distributed power architectures, radiation hardened designs.
--- Optimize system designs for reduced size, weight, and power.
--- Design new products and develop technical specifications for their production.
--- Analyze hardware configuration and processing solutions and test hardware conformance to specifications.
--- Develop and maintain effective internal/external relationships.
--- Independently drive solutions to complex problems - develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements.
--- Subject Matter Expert (SME) able to perform advanced architectures and designs for complex power electronics.
--- Involved in business development and proposal activities.
--- Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
--- Ability to manage multi-disciplinary tasks with multiple engineers and effectively communicate status to project leadership and customers.
--- Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers; Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals.
--- Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills/Abilities
--- Knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Isolated and non-Isolated dc/dc power conversion; rectification; inversion; battery management systems; motor controller design; system-level power distribution design; system/board level grounding/shielding and EMC design techniques.
--- Designing and troubleshooting power electronics.
--- Proficient with schematic capture and printed circuit board layout.
--- Ability to perform circuit simulation using Spice or other simulation tools.
--- System modeling and analysis experience using MATLAB, Simulink, or other comparable tools.
--- Understanding of applied math and physics.
--- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
--- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
--- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
--- Ability to write detailed documentation.

Education
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field required,
Master's Degree preferred. Experience 5-7 years of experience in Power Systems Engineering or related.

Additional Job Requirements:

- Must be local to the Cambridge office and able to support flexible in-office work. Full-time remote employees will not be considered for this role.

- Active clearance strongly preferred. Strong candidates will be considered without an active clearance but must be able to obtain a secret clearance upon starting this role.

Sr. Power Electronics Engineer

A Senior Power Electronics Engineer designs, specifies, develops, and tests power system architectures and requirements for a wide array of applications, including miniature power conversion and management circuitry, distributed power architectures, radiation hardened designs, novel battery management circuitry, small motor controllers, switched-mode power conversion and precision feedback systems. They also perform a variety of engineering work in the initial planning and design phase of specifications and requirements of the systems.

Duties/Responsibilities
--- Design, develop, and build power system architectures.
--- Conduct research, design, development, and testing of hardware such as miniature power conversion and management circuitry, distributed power architectures, radiation hardened designs.
--- Optimize system designs for reduced size, weight, and power.
--- Design new products and develop technical specifications for their production.
--- Analyze hardware configuration and processing solutions and test hardware conformance to specifications.
--- Develop and maintain effective internal/external relationships.
--- Independently drive solutions to complex problems - develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements.
--- Subject Matter Expert (SME) able to perform advanced architectures and designs for complex power electronics.
--- Involved in business development and proposal activities.
--- Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
--- Ability to manage multi-disciplinary tasks with multiple engineers and effectively communicate status to project leadership and customers.
--- Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers; Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals.
--- Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills/Abilities
--- Knowledge in at least one of the following areas: Isolated and non-Isolated dc/dc power conversion; rectification; inversion; battery management systems; motor controller design; system-level power distribution design; system/board level grounding/shielding and EMC design techniques.
--- Designing and troubleshooting power electronics.
--- Proficient with schematic capture and printed circuit board layout.
--- Ability to perform circuit simulation using Spice or other simulation tools.
--- System modeling and analysis experience using MATLAB, Simulink, or other comparable tools.
--- Understanding of applied math and physics.
--- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
--- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
--- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
--- Ability to write detailed documentation.

Education
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field required,
Master's Degree preferred. Experience 5-7 years of experience in Power Systems Engineering or related.

Additional Job Requirements:

- Must be local to the Cambridge office and able to support flexible in-office work. Full-time remote employees will not be considered for this role.

- Active clearance strongly preferred. Strong candidates will be considered without an active clearance but must be able to obtain a secret clearance upon starting this role.

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