Power Supply Design Engineer - High-Density Server Power

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

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.