Principal Electrical Engineer - Power Electronics

Full-time position in Ronkonkoma, NY.

About the Role

Provide technical leadership across the full product lifecycle for harsh environment electronics, from requirements and architecture through qualification, production, and sustainment. The role covers a varied product line supporting multiple customers in a well-established engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Perform innovative analog and digital hardware design, analysis, simulation, and verification for harsh environment applications.
• Develop clear requirements and design documentation while presenting designs at technical reviews.
• Optimize complex design tradeoffs across performance, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Support manufacturing, suppliers, and legacy products through hands-on troubleshooting and analysis.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to proposals and cost estimates, and support technical hiring decisions.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
• 15+ years of experience in analog and digital circuit design, including A/D conversion, processors and microcontrollers, and I/O and communications.
• Strong background in power electronics, including MOSFET, IGBT, SiC, and GaN devices.
• Experience with DC/DC converters and compliance with MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-704, DO-160, and MIL-STD-461.
• Expertise in thermal, electrical stress, worst-case, tolerance, aging, FMEA, EMI, and radiation (SEU, TID) analyses.
• Proficiency in PWB layout for high power, high voltage, and EMI compliant designs.
• Knowledge of communication protocols including CAN, RS-232/422/485, SPI, JTAG, PCI/PCIe, and 1G/10G Ethernet.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with motor control, control theory, Z-domain analysis, and Clark and Park transforms.
• Experience with sensor interfaces such as LVDT, resolvers, and encoders.
• Proficiency with CAD and simulation tools such as LT-Spice, P-Spice, OrCAD, Allegro, and MATLAB/Simulink.

Pay

$170,000 to $210,000 per year, based on experience.

Benefits

Full benefits package.