Power Supply Design Engineer – High-Density Server PSU

Super Micro Computer, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Supermicro is seeking a Power Supply Design Engineer to contribute to the design, review, and validation of server power supplies. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with 2+ years of ITE server power supply design experience, covering PFC, flyback, LLC, and phase‑shift topologies in mass production.

The role requires collaboration across departments and assistance to product managers in design and development.

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 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.

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

AC to DC power supply design

Independent work

Analytical/problem solving

Team player

High power density design

Resonant/redundant power supply design

Power supply circuit analysis

Education

BSEE/MSEE

Tools

PSIM

PSPICE

Mathcad

MATLAB

Job description

Supermicro is seeking a Power Supply Design Engineer to contribute to the design, review, and validation of server power supplies. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with 2+ years of ITE server power supply design experience, covering PFC, flyback, LLC, and phase‑shift topologies in mass production.

The role requires collaboration across departments and assistance to product managers in design and development.