Principal Power Electronics Applications Engineer
Vantage Consulting
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Job summary
Vantage Consulting seeks a Principal Applications Engineer to join a team focused on high-performance power electronics for power semiconductor solutions. You will engage with customers and internal engineering groups to drive design development, product evaluation, and technical support across power conversion applications.
The role involves developing reference designs for SMPS, inverters, and motor drives, performing loss modelling and thermal analysis, and creating gate-drive solutions for
Qualifications
- Several years of experience designing SMPS, inverters, converters, or motor drive systems.
- Demonstrable experience with a range of power converter/inverter topologies.
- Expert understanding of power semiconductor devices, including Si and/or wide-bandgap tech such as SiC and GaN.
- Proficiency with power electronics simulation and modelling tools (PLECS, LTspice, PSIM, SIMPLIS, or similar).
- Laboratory validation experience with oscilloscopes, power analysers, and switching characterization equipment.
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical expert supporting customers designing with advanced power semiconductor devices.
- Develop and support high-efficiency power conversion reference designs across applications (industrial motor drives, servo drives, DC-DC converters, high-frequency AC-DC systems).
- Work extensively with a range of converter topologies.
- Perform power loss modelling, efficiency optimization, thermal analysis, and system-level performance evaluation.
- Design and validate gate drive solutions for high-speed switching power devices.
- Support customer design reviews, troubleshooting, and application-level debugging.
- Create technical documentation.
- Provide technical support to internal applications and field engineering teams.
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Job description
Vantage Consulting seeks a Principal Applications Engineer to join a team focused on high-performance power electronics for power semiconductor solutions. You will engage with customers and internal engineering groups to drive design development, product evaluation, and technical support across power conversion applications.
The role involves developing reference designs for SMPS, inverters, and motor drives, performing loss modelling and thermal analysis, and creating gate-drive solutions for
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