Senior Power Electronics and Controls Engineer

About the role

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation is a leading and growing international company that delivers advanced products and solutions into the medical imaging, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Food Inspection and Transport Security markets at the global scale. As a part of our continuous focus on offering high performance and cutting-edge products and solutions to our markets, the field of advanced power conversion, power management and controls and embedded systems is of strategic and critical importance. In this context, Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. is seeking a highly talented, motivated, creative, and experienced Sr. Engineering in the field of Power Electronics, Power Management and Digital Controls technologies and applications, to include development, testing and validation.

Responsibilities

• Technical Product design working from high level requirements.
• Responsibilities range from designing, developing power conversion and control circuits, modeling/simulations, component selection, bread-boarding, testing, troubleshooting, problem solving, system integration and reporting results.
• Product architecture development to enable robust solutions
• Detailed circuit design and analysis to enable reliability and producibility
• Project Planning for applied technology development needs
• Interface with peers in the Engineering team to implement features desired as described in product and application requirements.
• Support the review and interpretation of internal/external customer requirements

Qualifications & Requirements

• Critical Requirements for this role include the following:
• BS degree with minimum 8 years of relevant experience or MS degree with 5+ years of experience or PhD with 3+ years of experience preferred, in Electrical Engineering with specific focus on: PID (Proportional-Integral-Differential) controls design and implementation including hardware, software and firmware; Power Electronics converter design, modeling, build and test
• In-depth knowledge of the physics of semiconductor technologies (active and passive components) including SiC and GaN for power conversion, In-depth knowledge of analog circuit design
• In-depth knowledge of magnetics and design principles
• Expertise in multi-physics simulations: Controls+Electro-Thermo-Mechanical system modeling in the field of modern power electronics
• In-depth expertise of advanced prognostic and health monitoring as applied to power electronics is a must.