Senior Power Electronics Engineer, Leo Power Team

Senior Power Electronics Engineer, Amazon Leo Power Team

Job  | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

This is a fast paced and challenging position where you will be working on power electronics designs that are used on the Amazon Leo Satellite. Your power designs will need to meet requirements in terms of efficiency, size, mass, thermal and survive challenging environments with high reliability.

• Be a Senior Power Electronics Engineer in an engineering team responsible for new product development.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the area of power electronics focusing on DCDC power conversion and associated power electronics components.
• Own efficiency, mass and cost models of various power electronics designs and investigate different topologies to optimize the system.
• Design power electronics prototypes, including component selection, schematic capture and layout.
• Drive designs through PCBA manufacturing and assembly, and handle board bring‑up, testing, design verification and propose and implement solutions to design issues.
• Work cross‑team to define architecture and requirements, delivering high‑performing and high‑quality power electronics designs, schematics and PCBAs for a number of different satellite subsystems.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

You will work cross team to define architecture, requirements working with multiple teams, and deliver high performing and high quality power electronics designs, schematics, PCBAs for a number of different satellite subsystems.

You will work closely with peers and stakeholders from within the power team as well as solar array, battery, mechanical, thermal, EE, sensors, actuators and antenna teams to iterate on design and provide optimal solutions for the satellite.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and debugging switching DCDC power supplies including component selection, schematic capture and layout.
• 3+ years of experience in hardware development across full product life cycles – concept to production.
• Experience with measurement, troubleshooting and debug skills in a lab environment.
• Experience studying converter stability, design of control feedback and compensation networks.

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering with focus on power electronics.
• Experience with high-current, low-voltage point-of-load DCDC converter designs for communications systems, consumer electronics, data-center/server hardware, etc.
• Experience with isolated topologies, such as resonant converters, flyback and forward converters.
• Excellent knowledge of magnetic design for high frequency applications and soft switching techniques.
• Deep understanding of different power electronics circuit topologies, including current sharing and multi-phase topologies.
• Experience with embedded microprocessors or microcontrollers.
• Experience developing high-efficiency DCDC power converters from concept to production.
• Ability to apply critical thinking in complex situations; experience working in cross functional groups including mechanical engineering, thermal engineering, test, reliability, and failure analysis.
• Cross‑organizational communication – comfortable evangelizing ideas and concerns clearly and persuasively, in both verbal and written forms.
• Experience with power, performance and cost optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to engage technology developers in the industry to track and apply emerging technologies to innovative power electronics designs.

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