Lead Electrical Engineer, Automotive Power Inverter Systems

Astemo, Ltd.; Farmington Hills (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Astemo America is seeking an experienced power electronics design engineer to support development of xEV traction inverter hardware. You will design LV/HV circuits, select components, analyze circuits, and test power electronics in collaboration with a global team.

This hybrid role requires 3 days on-site and may involve international travel. A minimum of 7 years in automotive power electronics and a BSEE are preferred, with strong communication across teams and customers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years practical work experience designing automotive power electronics analog and digital circuits.
• Minimum 5 years product experience with traction inverter hardware design preferred.
• Experience with embedded hardware design for automotive power electronics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or support development/localization activities for xEV traction inverter power electronics business in Astemo Americas.
• Plans and manages activities for multiple projects to ensure goals or objectives are accomplished within a prescribed timeframe.
• Receive, evaluate, and utilize customer engineering requirements and work with global team to provide optimum inverter design for each change/application.
• Facilitate accurate & timely inverter program technical communication between OEM customers to the US / Japan design teams and related Astemo manufacturing sites.
• Participate with Astemo US & Japan Design Engineering organizations in the original design / existing design improvements / performance validation / production launch, activities of xEV inverters for various automotive powertrain products applications.
• Design work will involve (but not limited to) LV circuit, Gate drive circuit, DC-link Capacitor, Current senor, EMC filter, and Power module related design.
• Prepare engineering documents to support product design (eBOM, RPL, IMDS, etc)
• Provide as needed on-site support to the internal inverter manufacturing sites for various engineering duties during sample and mass production timing.
• Support various types of product pricing, quoting, and cost investigation activities.
• Prepare various types of technical data / information documents using industry standard PC based software programs (i.e.: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Support product validation testing, prototype build and test, and other engineering deliverables in the development phase of product life cycle.
• Travel internationally may be required as business conditions dictate.

Skills

Power electronics design

Inverter hardware design

EMC testing

Motor control circuits

Embedded hardware design

Six Sigma

Customer interfacing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Mathcad

LTspice

SIMetrix-SIMPLIS

Zuken

TwinBuilder

Job description

Astemo America is seeking an experienced power electronics design engineer to support development of xEV traction inverter hardware. You will design LV/HV circuits, select components, analyze circuits, and test power electronics in collaboration with a global team.

This hybrid role requires 3 days on-site and may involve international travel. A minimum of 7 years in automotive power electronics and a BSEE are preferred, with strong communication across teams and customers.