Power Electronics Lead, NA Region

About the role

The Power Electronics Lead, NA Region, is responsible for building and cultivating a Power electronics team within the US, collaborating with UK and Prague teams to support the road mapping of future power electronics technologies for automotive and broader applications.

Responsibilities

• Architect Power electronics projects from a budget, resource, technical and stakeholder perspective.
• Collaborate with senior leadership team to identify and create new service offerings in vehicle systems in the technology space of fuel cell, hybrid vehicle and autonomous vehicle.
• Lead interfaces with multiple clients to identify potential needs.
• Develop workable client solutions and integrate solutions into proposals.
• Provide technical leadership in identifying and devising innovative solutions in engineering services.
• Identify, integrate and standardize best practices with respect to key technical deliverables such as modeling and other technical analyses.
• Develop the system requirements based upon and trace to the customer requirements for mechanical, electrical and software disciplines.
• Utilize the system architecture provided by the core team to verify that the system requirements are satisfied by the system architecture.
• Updates system architecture as necessary.
• Understand and document customer requirements using ALM tools.
• Manager and negotiate customer requirements, change requests, and unwritten expectations.
• Documents system architecture in an unambiguous, clear, and understandable way that electrical, mechanical and software engineers know exactly what they must do in order to meet customer expectations.
• Knowledge of all aspects of power conversion electronics.
• Concept system and topology development for power conversion circuits.
• Support local engineers in a line management role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent (Master’s preferred)
• Over 10 years of hands-on experience required in the design, development and delivery of automotive power electronics covering inverters, DC/DC, power supplies etc.
• Application experience with power switches including IGBT, MOSFET, SiC, GaN etc.
• EMI and EMC experience.
• Embedded control hardware application (uP, DSP, FPGA) – coding not expected – including power supply, interfacing and protection circuits.
• Demonstrable experience with typical power electronics simulation and analysis approaches and software packages.
• Experience of electronics manufacturing processes and new product introduction.
• Must have successfully delivered, from a lead position, at least two significant vehicle programs (commercially, technically and on-time).
• Strong product development work content, timing and deliverables knowledge.
• Understands customer needs, wants and ensures on-going positive relationships.
• Experience in project leadership and managing programs involving multiple disciplines and departments, without direct reports.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and listening skills.
• Self-motivated with excellent time management skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to handle and maintain confidential information.
• Ability to work well with people, in a team environment, and to communicate effectively both written & oral.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, matrix organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• 10+ years professional systems engineering experience.
• Automotive component development experience.
• Able to dissect a system into logical components by function and or feature.
• Able to identify critical interdependencies between systems and or components.
• Experience with safety and/or ASPICE standards.
• Experience with Agile Development Processes.