Senior Controls Engineer, Power Electronics & Converters

Proper Voltage Inc.; Carlsbad (CA); In loco; USD 150.000 - 175.000; Tempo pieno

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Descrizione del lavoro

Proper Voltage designs and builds safety-critical battery energy storage systems. This role leads control design for our bidirectional DC/DC power conversion stage — the current and voltage loops, mode transitions, and protection behavior of multiphase interleaved converters — from plant model through validated hardware.

This role sits where power electronics control meets software. You will model the plant, design and discretize the compensators, and prove them in closed‑loop simulation running

Competenze

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent demonstrated capability.
• Six or more years designing control systems for switched‑mode power converters.
• Direct hands‑on experience designing control loops for converters that reached validated hardware.
• Working command of small‑signal modeling and frequency‑domain design (Bode/Nyquist).
• Fluency in PLECS or MATLAB/Simulink; scripting for automation (Python/MATLAB).
• Understanding of digital implementation constraints (PWM, sampling, delays).

Mansioni

• Derive small‑signal plant models for buck, boost, four‑switch buck‑boost, and multiphase interleaved topologies.
• Design compensators (PID, type II/III, 2p2z/3p3z) to meet bandwidth and margin targets.
• Discretize designs for digital implementation and specify sample rates and delays.
• Build closed‑loop converter models in PLECS and MATLAB/Simulink; verify with SPICE where needed.
• Write code for simulation and automated stability checks across the operating envelope.
• Measure loop gain and correlate results against the model; lead technical reviews with hardware.

Conoscenze

Control design

Plant modeling

Closed-loop simulation

Loop tuning

S-domain analysis

Python scripting

MATLAB/Simulink

Formazione

BS in Electrical Engineering

Strumenti

PLECS

MATLAB/Simulink

SPICE

Oscilloscopes & lab equipment

Descrizione del lavoro

Proper Voltage designs and builds safety-critical battery energy storage systems. This role leads control design for our bidirectional DC/DC power conversion stage — the current and voltage loops, mode transitions, and protection behavior of multiphase interleaved converters — from plant model through validated hardware.

This role sits where power electronics control meets software. You will model the plant, design and discretize the compensators, and prove them in closed‑loop simulation running