Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric UK Innovation Center; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join its railway team in Birmingham. This role offers an exciting opportunity to design and develop cutting-edge gate driver boards for power semiconductor devices, ensuring compliance with technical specifications. You will engage in circuit testing, simulation analysis, and collaborate with reliability engineers for thorough testing. With a focus on professional growth, this position provides a supportive environment to enhance your skills in power electronics and PCB design. If you are passionate about engineering and eager to contribute to groundbreaking projects, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Holiday allowance increase with length of service

Free lunch Monday to Friday

Contributory Pension

Cycle to work scheme

Family Friendly policies

24-hour confidential counseling service

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in power electronics product design.
• Strong PCB designing skills and circuit analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop gate drive boards for power semiconductor devices.
• Conduct circuit testing, validation, and calibration work.

Skills

PCB Design

Power Electronics

Circuit Testing

Simulation Analysis

Gate Driver Design

EMC Testing

Reliability Testing

Education

Degree in Engineering

Degree in Electronics

Degree in Physics

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence

Job description

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Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric UK Innovation Centre (TEIC) is a subsidiary of the CRRC Corporation Limited, the world’s leading propulsion and control systems provider in the rolling stock industry. Our mission is to design, develop and produce state of the art power electronics systems and components for automotive electric vehicles, rail, and renewable energy sectors.

Overview of the role:

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join our railway team at TEIC. This role will be responsible for circuit design, simulation analysis, test verification of the gate driver of power semiconductor devices.

What you will be doing in this role:

• Design and development of gate drive board for power semiconductor devices with rated voltage of 1200V or higher

• Ensure hardware solutions, detailed technical design and PCB design meet technical specifications

• Hardware circuit analysis, including FMEDAs, FTAs, and diagnostic coverage analysis, DFMEA, DRBFM reliability analysis, etc., define technical specifications and complete work reports

• Hardware design simulation calculations, including tolerance, worst case, derating, EMC, thermal simulation, etc., define technical specifications and prepare work reports

• Circuit testing, validation and calibration work, and complete test specifications and reports

• Electronic material management, PCB package library management

• Summary and validation of design experience/criteria

• Collaborative reliability engineers to complete reliability testing and coordinate with system engineers for integration testing

• Work with project managers and manufacturing departments or contractors to ensure timely and cost-effective prototypes are produced at the expected cost

• Responsible for electronic circuit test fixture preparation

We would like you to have:

• Degree in Engineering, Electronics, Physics or other relevant field (or equivalent experience)

• 5 years working experience on power electronics product design; Strong PCB designing skills

• Able to produce schematics of the gate driver board independently, including the design of the power, driving circuit and protection circuit

• Have two-level or three-level inverter design experience. Ideally the bus voltage of the inverter is 600V or higher with 200KW or higher rated power

• Familiar with power electronics semiconductor module applications

• Rich experiences in gate driver board debugging and double-pulse testing

• Experience with high power switching power supply development project

• Good at Altium Designer, Cadence or similar software

• Previous experience in HALT, quantitative ALT life test would be desirable

TEIC is a great place to work with opportunities for professional and personal development. Our benefits include:

• Holiday allowance increase with length of service

• Free lunch Monday to Friday

• Contributory Pension

• Cycle to work scheme

• Family Friendly policies

• An Independent 24-hour confidential counseling service

To find out more about TEIC visit www.teic.crrczic.cc.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Motor Vehicle Manufacturing and Truck Transportation

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