Staff Electrical Component Engineer

Major Responsibilities

• Participate in design reviews with the electrical engineering team, contributing to the development and validation of electrical systems, including schematics, PCB layouts, and wiring diagrams for solar and battery energy storage applications.
• Utilize circuit simulation tools such as LTspice to analyze and validate designs, ensuring component selection meets performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements.
• Own qualification and technical evaluation of electronic components, including MOSFETs, PCBs, magnetics (wound components), discrete analog/digital components, relays, ICs, and interconnects (cables and connectors).
• Apply strong expertise in power electronics, including high-frequency AC–DC, DC–AC, and DC–DC conversion topologies.
• Analyze and interpret component datasheets to support optimal part selection, performance, and reliability.
• Review engineering drawings and specifications to verify quality requirements; identify and communicate gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Identify Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) components within BOMs and manage PPAP activities with suppliers to ensure component quality, reliability and compliance requirements are met.
• Perform supplier manufacturing process audits and assessments to ensure compliance with quality standards, process controls and product reliability requirements.
• Hands-on experience in electronic parts selection and qualification to ensure parts are qualified by design documents and selected test parameters.
• Experience working on electronic assembly environments with contract manufacturing where component qualification through Parts PPAP process and IQC was required.
• Perform additional duties as required

Minimum Job Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Work Experience: Hands on experience on electronic parts selection and qualification to ensure parts are qualified by design documents and selected test parameters.
• Experience: Working on electronic assembly environments with contract manufacturing where component qualification through Parts PPAP process and IQC was required.
• Demonstrated experience with Wire-Wound magnetic components (transformers, inductors).
• Candidate has hands on technical expertise in magnetics and manufacturing, not just quality oversight.

Preferred Job Requirements

• Education: Master degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Power Electronics
• Formally trained in magnetics design for power electronic applications
• Certification / License: Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles, Six Sigma green or black belt preferred. IEEE certification will be a plus.
• Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: Proven experience collaborating with multiple sites and functions to solve common solutions. Experience collaborating with component manufacturers, distributors, and field application engineers (FAE) to stay current on new product introductions and application specific solutions.
• Experience: Strong technical fluency in selecting wire wound magnetics and power mosfets. Experience with eCAD tools like Altium, Eagle to design review an electrical design at schematic and layout levels. Solid quantitative skill set and the ability to analyze and communicate with well-supported data.