Engineering Manager - Power Electronics
Job in
Ventura, Ventura County, California, 93006, USA
Listed on 2026-09-16
Listing for:
AYM
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-16
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineer, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Engineering Manager - Power Electronics
South Ventura County, CA | $175,000 – $210,000 | Full-Time | Onsite | Monday–Friday
OverviewJoin a well-established Electronics OEM of high-performance control solutions in South Ventura County. In this senior leadership role you will combine deep technical expertise in power electronics with people management – leading the electrical engineering team and driving product architecture from concept through production.
What You’ll Do- Lead and develop the electrical engineering and PCB engineering teams; provide organizational management for the mechanical engineering team
- Set technical direction for power electronics architecture, design methods, and hardware platforms
- Architect and review power stages for servo drives and AC/DC conversion topologies — component selection, derating, efficiency, thermal performance, and reliability
- Guide gate drive circuits, sensing, protection, and analog front-end conditioning
- Oversee analog control loop development and tuning for power conversion and servo amplifier functions
- Drive EMI/EMC filtering strategies and lead collaboration on grounding, shielding, layout, and packaging
- Oversee auxiliary and bias power supply design (isolated/non-isolated)
- Establish loss, thermal, and derating analysis standards; drive cooling requirements
- Lead design reviews, risk assessments, sustaining engineering, and design standards
- Partner with manufacturing and applications engineering on bring-up, debug, root-cause analysis, and customer escalations
- 10+ years of electrical engineering and power electronics design experience (15+ preferred) including industrial motor drives and/or power conversion products
- Prior technical leadership or people management experience
- Strong background in analog closed-loop control design for industrial power supplies and motor drives
- Experience with mixed-signal power electronics up to ~800V and ~500A
- Hands‑on design of linear and switching power supplies and associated magnetics
- Proficiency with SPICE and MATLAB/Simulink or Mathcad
- Ability to lead PCB layout reviews for high power density and low EMI
- S. in Electrical Engineering required;
Ph.D. is a plus
- Experience leading engineering teams in a product development environment
- Familiarity with industrial safety and regulatory standards (UL/IEC)
- Motor control and servo drive experience
- Embedded/DSP control exposure
- Knowledge of power semiconductors (Si/SiC/GaN) and gate drive considerations
- Experience designing magnetics for power conversion
- Thermal management and cooling system design experience
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- Vacation and paid holidays
- 401(k) / Roth with company match
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