Hardware Power Electronics Engineer - Motor Drives

Job Summary

Serve as the technical authority for power electronics hardware within C&I motor control and drive products.

• Act as technical lead and design authority for power electronics hardware across multiple products and platforms.
• Design switching power converters with a strong focus on efficiency, thermal management, EMI, reliability, and safety.
• Develop schematics and guide PCB layout for high-frequency and high-power circuits, ensuring optimal current loops, grounding, isolation, and thermal paths.
• Drive adoption of EMC-compliant hardware and layout practices from concept phase onward.
• Specify and validate current, voltage, and advanced sensors (including MEMS-based solutions) for control, protection, and diagnostics.
• Perform detailed electrical simulations, including circuit-level simulations (functional, signal transient, power losses).
• Collaborate with firmware and controls engineers to ensure optimal hardware–software interaction and system-level performance.
• Support the definition and implementation of hardware safety functions aligned with applicable standards.
• Design electronics with a strong focus on long-term reliability under electrical, thermal, mechanical, and environmental stresses.
• Lead DFMEA and contribute to system-level risk assessments.
• Analyze test and field failure data, contributing to root-cause analysis and corrective design actions.
• Ensure robustness against electrical overstress, thermal stress, EMC disturbances, and misuse scenarios.
• Apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) principles throughout the development process.
• Support PCBA fabrication, assembly, and end-of-line testing strategy definition.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to resolve electronics assembly, yield, and test issues.
• Support ramp‑up and production readiness activities.
• Provide technical support during pilot builds, validation builds, and mass production launches.
• Support preparation of technical documentation and test evidence required for certification and compliance activities.
• Participate in pre-compliance testing and troubleshooting to ensure successful formal certification.
• Lead or support technical engagement with key suppliers for power semiconductors.
• Guide procurement on component selection, balancing performance, reliability & cost.
• Support value engineering and cost optimization initiatives without compromising robustness or compliance.

• 10+ years of experience in electronics engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in electric motors, industrial equipment, and drives design.
• Hands‑on experience with power inverter topologies from 1 kW through 10 kW.
• Practical design ownership of active PFC hardware; implementing and supporting more than one topology across production programs.
• Repeated success in designing hardware that meets EMC emission and immunity requirements, including layout execution and pre‑compliance validation.
• Extensive experience designing high‑frequency power electronics, including switching devices, magnetics, and gate‑drive circuits.
• Experience implementing and validating hardware safety functions for motor control applications.
• Hands‑on involvement in PCB layout collaboration and design reviews for high‑power and high‑speed boards released to manufacturing.
• Applied experience using circuit analysis and simulation tools to predict losses, transient behavior, and design margins.
• 5+ years of experience applying current and voltage sensing technologies in power electronics and control systems.
• Practical exposure to deploying advanced MEMS‑based sensors in industrial or embedded electronics products.
• Direct involvement with PCBA manufacturing, including PCB fabrication, SMT/THT assembly constraints, and test strategy definition.
• Participation in product industrialization activities, including prototype builds, pilot runs, and production ramp‑up support.

• Clear written communication skills for technical documentation, design rationale, and engineering review.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely across diverse audiences, including nontechnical stakeholders.
• Confidence to challenge assumptions and…