Senior HV Power Electronics Hardware Lead

General Motors; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Power Electronics Hardware Design Lead to drive the development of high‑voltage power electronics including DC-DC converters, inverters, and onboard chargers for electrified vehicles. You will translate system requirements into verifiable hardware solutions and lead design from concept through release, balancing efficiency, thermal performance, EMC, cost, and manufacturability.

You will own architecture and topology choices, lead DFMEA and reliability analyses, and

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in electrical/electronics power engineering or related field.
• 8+ years hands-on experience in design and industrialization of power converters for high-voltage automotive systems.
• Experience with converter topology trade studies, efficiency, thermal, EMC, and manufacturability.

Responsibilities

• Interpret system requirements and translate to hardware functions and interfaces for high-voltage power converters.
• Define converter architecture, topology, control and protection strategies, interfaces, and diagnostics.
• Lead design reviews, perform worst-case analyses, and drive trade-offs to release hardware.
• Perform electrical, thermal, and magnetic analyses and correlate with bench/vehicle data.
• Lead design of power stage, magnetics, switches, gate drives, sensing, and high-voltage PCB layout.
• Collaborate with controls, mechanical, thermal, and validation teams through product lifecycle.

Skills

Power electronics

HV systems

Thermal analysis

Root-cause analysis

System-level thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

LTspice

PSpice

MATLAB/Simulink

FEM tools

PCB design tools (Mentor/Altium)

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Power Electronics Hardware Design Lead to drive the development of high‑voltage power electronics including DC-DC converters, inverters, and onboard chargers for electrified vehicles. You will translate system requirements into verifiable hardware solutions and lead design from concept through release, balancing efficiency, thermal performance, EMC, cost, and manufacturability.

You will own architecture and topology choices, lead DFMEA and reliability analyses, and