Lead Electrical Design Engineer – Battery Management & Power Electronics

Description

UEC Electronics is seeking an experienced, hands-on Lead Electrical Design Engineer to provide technical leadership for the development of advanced battery systems and power electronics used in demanding military and industrial applications.

• Serve as the technical lead for electrical hardware development across battery management systems, power electronics, battery protection circuits, and associated control and monitoring electronics.
• Lead electrical system architecture development, requirements analysis, component selection, circuit design, simulation, and hardware implementation.
• Translate system-level requirements into detailed electrical design specifications, functional block diagrams, circuit architectures, and verification plans.
• Take technical ownership of designs from initial concept through prototype development, design verification, qualification, and production release.
• Make and document critical design tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, safety, cost, manufacturability, and schedule.
• Establish and conduct rigorous technical design reviews to identify potential problems before designs are committed to fabrication.

• Design and review analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits, including power supplies, voltage and current sensing, signal conditioning, communications interfaces, and protection circuits.
• Develop battery management and protection electronics, including cell monitoring, balancing, battery monitoring ICs/analog front ends (AFEs), fuel gauging, fault detection, and safety-critical control functions.
• Design and evaluate power conversion, switching, gate-drive, and high-current circuitry as required by system architectures.
• Develop schematics, simulations, calculations, component specifications, and supporting engineering documentation.
• Provide technical oversight of PCB layout, including grounding, isolation, creepage and clearance, current carrying capacity, thermal management, EMI/EMC, and design for manufacturability.
• Conduct schematic and PCB layout reviews to verify correct circuit implementation and compliance with design requirements.
• Collaborate closely with embedded software engineers to ensure effective hardware/software integration.

• Lead hardware bring-up, prototype testing, debugging, and design verification activities.
• Personally perform hands-on circuit troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power supplies, multimeters, logic analyzers, and other laboratory equipment.
• Develop and oversee electrical verification plans, test procedures, acceptance criteria, and test reports.
• Investigate challenging hardware issues, identify root causes, and implement effective, verified corrective actions.
• Support environmental, electrical, safety, and electromagnetic compatibility qualification testing.
• Ensure designs adequately address electrical fault conditions, component failures, abnormal operating conditions, and foreseeable misuse.
• Work closely with manufacturing and quality teams to resolve production issues and improve product reliability.

• Provide day-to-day technical guidance and mentorship to electrical engineers with varying levels of experience.
• Review engineering work products and prov
  ide clear, constructive feedback to improve technical accuracy and design quality.
• Help engineers develop stronger capabilities in circuit analysis, component selection, simulation, PCB design, troubleshooting, and engineering documentation.
• Establish practical engineering standards, design guidelines, review checklists, and reusable design practices.
• Promote engineering discipline,…