Power Electronics Engineering Specialist

About the role

Eaton’s CTO Corporate Technology Office division is currently seeking a Power Electronics Engineering Specialist. This role is based out of Menomonee Falls, WI.

Responsibilities

• Create emerging power conversion & power system solutions based on breakthrough technologies for industrial, automotive, truck, and aerospace applications.
• Lead and develop technology projects by supporting teams (local and remote resources) and working with external technology resources (Business Divisions, Universities and Customers).
• Advance state of the art power electronics, power systems, and power converter technologies, as well as identify and develop commercialization opportunities with diverse Eaton businesses.
• Lead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural globally distributed teams, lead specific task within the scope of work and provide updates to project manager.
• Identify, analyze, develop and validate advanced technologies in the fields of power conversion and Power Systems.
• Initiate, lead and support global technology programs utilizing Eaton’s technology development processes including Business Reviews, Technology Reviews, and Project Reviews.
• Participate in technology strategy discussions with Eaton’s Businesses and develop technology road maps.
• Lead and support technology development projects and manage global teams (Eaton Business Divisions, Universities, National Labs and Customers).
• Create project plans, manage budgets and resources, and deliver results on budget and schedule.
• Engage with and manage stakeholder relationships - Business Divisions in the US and globally.
• Lead projects with partners from national labs, universities and other research institutes.
• Build global organizational capabilities in power conversion and power systems.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in related field from an accredited institution
• 5+ years of industrial or entrepreneurial experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in low and medium voltage power conversion and power systems engineering, including creating specifications, defining application space, designing technical solution concepts, and building and testing prototypes to validate models/hypotheses and documenting results.
• Expertise in the following areas: Motor Drive technology, drive/converter topologies, high-power electronics; electric machines and controls; electrification of vehicles, energy storage, and grid connected converters; alternative power generation and distribution.
• Experience in modeling power converters and power systems using simulation tools (example: MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, Simplorer, PSIM and/or PSCAD).
• Experience in power electronics electromechanical packaging techniques; understanding of the effects of parasitic capacitance/inductance on circuit performance, familiarity with techniques for the minimization and/or control of parasitics, familiarity with voltage creepage and clearance requirements and various insulation and interconnection techniques; familiarity with various power electronic component cooling techniques, etc.
• Appreciation for the trade-offs necessary to achieve designs that meet performance requirements and cost objective solutions.
• Experience with real time simulators such as DSPACE, OPAL-RT and/or RTDS.
• Proven track record in new technology development with multiple stakeholders in a matrixed organizations.
• Good understanding of ML and Deep Learning concepts (Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning).
• General Understanding of Optimization theory.
• General experience in training and deploying ML and DL models using various frameworks like pytorch, pytorch lightning, Keras, tensorflow, numpy, pandas, scikit learn etc. (selection of algorithms, hyperparameter tuning, local/cloud-based training etc.)