Power Electronics Design Leader

What you will do

The Power Electronics Design Leader will provide global electronic technical leadership, driving innovation and technology roadmaps across multiple projects. You will lead technical teams and resources, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and represent the organization in international technical forums. The successful candidate will serve as a recognized expert in electronic technology, collaborating closely with technical leaders and management.

• Develop and execute Annual Development Plans, Performance Reviews, and Succession Plans (as appropriate) for each team member.
• Develop and train internal technical experts to ensure consistent application of proper hardware engineering discipline throughout the product development cycle.
• Devise and implement processes, tools, and KPI’s to continuously improve product quality governance.
• Directing technical teams to resolve technical issues and ensure changes implemented to avoid reoccurrence.
• Provide an efficient, swift and effective path for escalation/resolution of hardware issues (as needed).
• Lead reviews and negotiations of customer specifications, industry standards, regulatory standards and internal design guidelines to establish product electrical requirements.
• Directs the requirement analysis and validation planning activities in accordance with automotive functional safety and ASPICE processes without guidance.
• Leads and approves design verification activities such as engineering analysis, simulation, design reviews, DFMEAs, validation testing and reporting in accordance with automotive functional safety and ASPICE processes without guidance.
• Leads and approves design direction for core and customer power electronic circuit designs including DCDC converters, solid state relays, pre-driver, magnetics, input filters, and other power semiconductor circuits.
• Generates technical requirements of electrical architecture and electrical circuit design, components and sub-assemblies including PCBA, contractors, other electrical hardware.
• Generates hardware / software interface specifications, including DCDC control strategies to be used in application and test software, working closely with the embedded software engineering team.
• Directs design and test for vehicle level electrical and electromagnetic performance per customer requirements. Optimize the electrical system design to balance cost, performance, mass, volume, and energy efficiency.
• Directs electrical design analyses and test results in support of design verification.
• Directs the development of power / high current test setups, plan, and execute tests for electrical circuits and components.
• Directs Engineering Change Requests and Engineering Change Orders.
• Leads suppliers to deliver components to specifications.
• Leads the design for manufacturability (DFM) to ensure that the design is optimized for manufacturing processes.
• Provides technical leadership to team members and allocates to project teams and tasks with other engineering disciplines.
• Manages, coaches and leads the development of others, growing organizational skill and competency in creativity and innovation.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• >15 years of professional engineering experience in related field
• 2-4 years of engineering supervision experience required; 1-2 years direct reports
• Expert in the use of electronic design and development tools, including schematic capture, layout, analysis, and simulation
• Expert with electronic circuit debug and test
• Expert in the use of electrical engineering equipment such as power supplies, DMM’s, and oscilloscopes
• Technical / project leadership experience taking power electronics from concept to production
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