Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Senior Power Electronics Engineer.
Our highly technical engineering client are recruiting for a Senior Power Electronics Engineer. There are over 4 million mobile phone towers on the planet today and growing. Every tower needs reliable power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The electricity network grid cannot always deliver this reliability especially in remote areas and this is where our client come in.
Senior Power Electronics Engineer Benefits
Our client always make their team members their top priority, this includes offering the benefits such as…

Hybrid Working (on-site 3 days per week.)
Be part of a company developing a simply revolutionary new product.
The opportunity to make a real contribution and play a critical part in our evolving business.
Private Medical Insurance, funded by the Company.
Pension contribution.
Life assurance.
33 days holiday entitlement, inc Bank Holidays.

Senior Power Electronics Engineer Roles & Responsibilities

Maintain and continuously improve the current generation designs of High-speed motor drive electronics.
Lead investigation and resolution of any failures seen on the power electronics modules.
Support the nominated electronics manufacturing partner to successfully transition products from low volume batch builds into full volume production.
Actively contribute to the ongoing system level integration and testing activities, and to the design proving of the individual power modules and of the complete electrical system also.
Lead detailed design and industrialisation of these future product concepts, to create the next generation High speed motor drive electronics and VMI power modules.

 
Senior Power Electronics Engineer Knowledge & Experience

Degree qualified in an Engineering or Science related discipline as a minimum.
Extensive experience of power electronics design, at least 5 years, preferably 10.
Experience in motor drive design a particular advantage including inverters and DC-DC converters, high speed motors.
Use of schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium.
Experience in mathematical modelling and simulation of circuits and systems, e.g., SPICE, PLECS, SiMetrix.
Use of reliability, risk or safety analysis tools for the analysis of hardware, e.g. FTA, DFMEA.
Qualification of systems to automotive standards (e.g. ISO16750), 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
Experience with analogue circuit design, high voltage and current sensing techniques, different inverter topologies or Snubber Designs.
Double pulse testing.
Designing electrical power systems to meet creepage and clearances for operation up to 1kV.

We are an equal opportunities agency and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
We are acting on behalf of the client as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
PLEASE NOTE SPONSOESHIP IS NOT PROVIDED AT ANY POINT