Power Electronics Lead - High-Power Converter Architect

American Supercritical; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity ownership

Medical premiums covered 100%

Dependent premiums 80% covered

Dental and vision covered 100%

Life insurance & long-term disability

401(k) retirement plan

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

American Supercritical seeks a Power Electronics Lead to own the path from generator terminals through power conversion to the customer interface. You will define architecture, lead internal and vendor design programs, and validate the system at power.

You will collaborate with electric-machine, controls, and system engineers to optimize active rectification, DC-bus, and topologies while addressing thermal, EMI/EMC, and protection concerns across multi-kilowatt to megawatt systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years developing medium- to high-power power electronics.
• Strong fundamentals in converter topologies, switching, magnetics, DC-link design.
• Experience with active rectifiers, inverters, motor drives, or grid converters.
• Experience commissioning power electronics on real hardware and debugging issues.
• Strong system-level judgment across converter hardware and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the power-electronics architecture, requirements, interfaces, and validation for the generator output path.
• Define active-rectification and DC-bus architecture with engineers.
• Make system-level tradeoffs among voltage, topology, switching, and thermal management.
• Specify semiconductors, power modules, magnetics, bus structures, and protection hardware.
• Own electrical interface requirements with customers and vendors; lead design reviews and qualification.
• Develop electrical and loss models; lead converter bring-up and high-power validation.

Skills

Power electronics

High-power design

Converter topologies

System-level judgment

Thermal management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SiC semiconductors

Job description

American Supercritical seeks a Power Electronics Lead to own the path from generator terminals through power conversion to the customer interface. You will define architecture, lead internal and vendor design programs, and validate the system at power.

You will collaborate with electric-machine, controls, and system engineers to optimize active rectification, DC-bus, and topologies while addressing thermal, EMI/EMC, and protection concerns across multi-kilowatt to megawatt systems.