Power Supply Design Engineer

Supermicro; Wayne (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Supermicro in California is seeking a Power Supply Design Engineer who can lead the design, review, and validation of server power supplies. The ideal candidate will be hands-on and have 2+ years of ITE server power supply design experience, covering PFC, flyback, LLC, phase shift, and power sharing in mass production.

You will work cross‑department with product managers and validation teams; responsibilities include schematics, BOMs, testing, design optimization, and documentation.

Qualifications

• BSEE/MSEE with 2+ years of direct experience with AC to DC server power supply design.
• Ability to work independently in a highly efficient way to achieve design goals with quality, efficiency, and with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills, excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated, team player with ability to work in fast-paced environment.
• High power density (30W~60W/cubic inch) design experience is desired.
• Power supply design experiences in resonant/redundant power supply is desired.
• Familiar with PSIM, PSPICE, Mathcad, Matlab; experience with PMBus/I2C interface.
• Professional in power supply circuit analysis, simulation, and debugging.
• Comprehensive knowledge of using new power devices.
• Experienced in high power transformer design.
• Experience with quality control aspect (ex. DFM, FMEA) for power supply manufacturing or design is desired.

Responsibilities

• Ability to perform schematics design, BOM generation, debugging and testing of power supply.
• Research, analyze and recommend new power supply design approaches.
• Plan project, manage schedule and work to meet TTM (Time to market), reduce cost and improve product quality.
• Evaluate current and future high efficiency & compact power supply design and recommend design modifications or enhancements to eliminate design roadblocks, improve product performance, and product quality.
• Collaborate with system or lab validation testing engineers to discover and resolve any design, signal integrity, or quality related issues.
• Create and review technical documentation including product specifications, layout instructions, test procedures, etc.
• Support other teams & FAE for technical support and perform failure analysis.
• Support sales to fix customer's problem.
• Support Power Supply Product Manager for technical support.
• Evaluate and debug design prototypes on the bench and generate detailed engineering reports of findings and recommendations

Skills

Power supply design

Schematic design

PCB schematics

Failure analysis

Documentation

Education

BSEE/MSEE

Tools

PSIM

PSPICE

Mathcad

Matlab

PMBus/I2C

Job description

About Supermicro:

Supermicro is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Job Summary:

Supermicro is seeking a Power Supply Design Engineer who can lead the product design, review, and validation of server power supply and related products. The ideal engineer will not just lead a team, but will be a hands‑on, and shall have 2+ years ITE server power supply design experiences, cover PFC, flyback, LLC, phase shift, power sharing, OringFET applications in mass production with records. This individual will be required to work cross‑department and assist product managers as needed in product design and development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):

• Ability to perform schematics design, BOM generation, debugging and testing of power supply
• Research, analyze and recommend new power supply design approaches
• Plan project, manage schedule and work to meet TTM (Time to market), reduce cost and improve product quality
• Evaluate current and future high efficiency & compact power supply design and recommend design modifications or enhancements to eliminate design roadblocks, improve product performance, and product quality
• Collaborate with system or lab validation testing engineers to discover and resolve any design, signal integrity, or quality related issues
• Create and review technical documentation including product specifications, layout instructions, test procedures, etc.
• Support other teams & FAE for technical support and perform failure analysis
• Support sales to fix customer's problem
• Support Power Supply Product Manager for technical support
• Evaluate and debug design prototypes on the bench and generate detailed engineering reports of findings and recommendations

Qualifications:

• BSEE/MSEE with 2+ years of direct experience with AC to DC server power supply design
• Abilities to work independently in a highly efficient way to achieve design goals with quality, efficiency, and with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills, excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self‑motivated, team player with ability to work in fast‑paced environment
• High power density (30W~60W/cubic inch) design experienced is desired
• Power supply design experiences in resonant/redundant power supply is desired
• Familiar with simulation tools such as PSIM, PSPICE, Mathcad, Matlab and experience with I2C or PMbus interface
• Professional in power supply circuit analysis, simulation, and debugging
• Comprehensive knowledge of using new power devices
• Experienced in high power transformer design
• Experience with quality control aspect (ex. DFM, FMEA) for power supply manufacturing or design is desired

Salary Range

$100,000 - $120,000

The salary offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.

EEO Statement

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.