Reference Design & Test Engineer - Power Electronics

Würth Elektronik Group; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Würth Elektronik Group in Plano, TX is seeking a Reference Design Development Engineer to develop, test, and document reference designs for new products by collaborating with customers, product management, and product definition engineers. Translate end application requirements to evaluation boards that demonstrate component performance under specific operating conditions.

Create evaluation boards for reference designs using CAD tools for schematics, PCB layouts, and circuit simulation.

Qualifications

• BSEE or BSET degree or equivalent electrical design experience.
• Experience with reference designs, evaluation boards, and EMI/EMC testing.
• Proficient with CAD tools for schematic and PCB design.
• Experience with test equipment and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Development of reference design eval boards.
• Electrical measurements to validate components performance on eval boards such as efficiency, temperature rise, ripple voltage and transient response.
• Correlate component performance on eval board to component level parameters.
• Create application notes to use the eval boards.
• Create test reports of component evaluation on eval boards.

Skills

Electrical design

EMC/EMI testing

PCB layout

Soldering

Documentation skills

Education

BSEE or BSET

Tools

AutoCAD

LTSpice

Altium

Cadence

PADS

KiCad

Oscilloscope

Vector network Analyzer

Impedance Analyzers

Job description

Würth Elektronik Group in Plano, TX is seeking a Reference Design Development Engineer to develop, test, and document reference designs for new products by collaborating with customers, product management, and product definition engineers. Translate end application requirements to evaluation boards that demonstrate component performance under specific operating conditions.

Create evaluation boards for reference designs using CAD tools for schematics, PCB layouts, and circuit simulation.