Lead Power Electronics Engineer – Megawatt Drives

IF1855 GE Energy Power Conversion USA Inc.; Imperial (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company matching

Job summary

GE Vernova seeks a Power Electronics Engineer to lead low and medium voltage power electronics on megawatt-scale drive system projects for Marine/Defense, Energy, and Industry applications. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team to specify, design, and validate hardware and software for power converters.

Responsibilities include reviewing specifications, owning engineering artifacts, interfacing with sourcing/manufacturing/test, and developing real-time software/hardware-in-the-loop

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics or similar from an accredited university.
• Minimum 5 Years’ experience in power electronics, power conversion, and/or naval power systems.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% (Domestic and international).
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Review detailed technical specifications for the control of large marine and naval power converters that capture customer requirements.
• Maintain ownership of all engineering artifacts associated with specific power converters on projects including software specifications, control specifications, software, control drawings, software, factory acceptance test procedures, and commissioning instructions.
• Interface with Sourcing and Purchasing to ensure suppliers products are meeting specifications.
• Interface with the Manufacturing and Test departments to ensure the power converters controls are fit for purpose.
• Create models of the power electronic controls for use by power systems engineers for performing power quality studies and system stability studies.
• Support sales by reviewing new customer requirements and highlighting differences/gaps between those requirements and power converter control capabilities.
• Collaborate with other GE PC businesses to understand power converter technologies and software employed at those factories in order to incorporate into requirements to satisfy customers in North America.
• Develop real time software and hardware in the loop systems for simulating and testing complex customer requirements.

Skills

Power electronics

Electrical engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Electronics

Tools

LTSpice

MATLAB/PLECS

GE PC P80i

Job description

GE Vernova seeks a Power Electronics Engineer to lead low and medium voltage power electronics on megawatt-scale drive system projects for Marine/Defense, Energy, and Industry applications. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team to specify, design, and validate hardware and software for power converters.

Responsibilities include reviewing specifications, owning engineering artifacts, interfacing with sourcing/manufacturing/test, and developing real-time software/hardware-in-the-loop