Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Ricardo; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy is seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer for an on-site position in Leamington Spa, UK. This role involves delivering innovative electrical and electronic solutions for client projects, leading design, validation, and technical support. The ideal candidate should hold a degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering and possess deep knowledge of power electronics and hardware design. Join a diverse team dedicated to creating innovative solutions in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health support benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering discipline.
• Experience in compliance engineering to external standards.
• Strong teamwork, organizational, oral, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical delivery of electrical and electronic projects.
• Responsible for system design, development, and validation.
• Deliver projects on time and within budget.

Skills

Hardware design core skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

pSpice

LTSpice

Job description

Overview

Role: Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Location: Leamington Spa - On-site

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

Following a recent exciting project win, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Electronics Engineer to join our dynamic electronics team. You will play a key role in delivering innovative solutions for client projects, leading technical tasks and ensuring successful project outcomes.

Key responsibilities

The successful candidate working as part of a multi-national team will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Provide technical delivery of electrical and electronic projects.
• Deliver projects on time in budget.
• Responsible for system design, development, and validation of electrical and electronic systems.
• Detailed electrical and power electronics circuit design and simulation.
• Support of PCB layout planning and guidance.
• Generation of product and test specifications.
• Liaison with mechanical, thermal and software design teams to deliver complete product designs.
• Support of prototype and volume manufacture.
• Prototype debug and test.
• Technical support of the sales team.
• Communicate directly with clients on technical issues.
• Liaise with suppliers/subcontractors to develop specifications and solutions.

Key Competencies and Experience

Essential

• Degree in an Electrical/Electronics Engineering discipline.
• Hardware design core skills / deep understanding of:
  • Specification of electronics hardware requirements.
  • Detailed design experience of power converter output stage electronics (up to 100kW)
  • Detailed design experience of 3-phase power factor corrected active power supplies (up to 100kW)
  • Detailed design experience of 3-phase motor drive inverters including 2-level and multi-level inverters (up to 100kW)
  • Design experience with wide band gap devices including SiC and GaN.
  • Detailed design experience of gate drive circuits for silicon and WBG devices.
  • Design experience of power filtering techniques and filter implementation including 3-phase input and output filters.
  • Experience of general design techniques for high voltage (up to 1500V)
  • Experience / knowledge of power switching stage modulation techniques.
  • Power magnetics (inductor & transformer) design for multi-kW AC-DC, DC-DC and DC-AC converters.
  • Knowledge of power electronics thermal management strategies.
  • Design for EMC including knowledge of standards and testing.
  • Worst-case circuit analysis.
• Familiar with product delivery process from requirements capture through to design validation.
• Experience in compliance engineering to external standards, such as EMC, vehicle safety etc.
• Strong teamwork, organizational, oral, and written communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience in design for manufacture.
• Experience in a schematic entry, ideally using Altium Designer.
• Experience using schematic simulation tools – pSpice, LTSpice based.
• Electronics manufacturing and test experience.
• Experienced in automotive electronics design.
• Experience in delivering DFMEA for design.
• Previous experience in designing products using 8, 16 or 32bit microcontrollers.
• Knowledge of Functional Safety standards ISO26262 or/and IEC61508.
• Basic understanding of the requirements of electronics packaging.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team [e-mail] you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.