Senior Power Electronics Controls Engineer — Hybrid (MI)

General Motors Corporation; Warren (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors in Warren, MI seeks a Power Electronics Controls Engineer to lead design and integration of controls for high-voltage power electronics, including DC/DC converters, inverters, and onboard chargers. Translate vehicle requirements into robust control strategies, calibration, diagnostics, and verification plans for validation and production launch.

This hands-on role spans controls architecture, embedded software, hardware integration, lab and vehicle testing, supplier direction, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, controls engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of power electronics, embedded controls, automotive electrical systems, or electrified-vehicle technologies.
• Experience with production DC/DC converters, onboard chargers, or related power-conversion systems.
• Strong fundamentals in feedback control, mode management, transient response, stability, protection, derating, diagnostics, and fault handling.
• Experience translating system requirements into controls, software, calibration, diagnostics, and verification plans.
• Lead collaboration between HW and SW teams and provide defined control specifications to SW.

Responsibilities

• Define controls architecture and operating modes for voltage/current regulation, power management, startup/shutdown, transitions, derating, protection, and fault recovery.
• Derive controller requirements based on system performance and drive controller selection.
• Translate system requirements into control, software, calibration, diagnostic, and interface requirements.
• Balance efficiency, transient response, stability, thermal performance, EMC, safety, cost, and timing.
• Design diagnostic monitoring, fault thresholds, degraded modes, safe-state behavior, and recovery strategies.
• Lead controls integration across converter hardware, embedded software, battery systems, vehicle energy management, electrical architecture, validation, and vehicle integration.
• Plan and review simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, laboratory, and vehicle verification; use objective data to confirm performance and robustness.
• Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for controls, performance, communication, diagnostic, and vehicle-integration issues.
• Provide technical directions to suppliers and review architecture, software maturity, calibration capability, diagnostic coverage, test evidence, and launch readiness.

Skills

Power electronics

Embedded controls

CAN/LIN/Ethernet

Diagnostics

Model-based development

HIL testing

Cross-functional leadership

Calibration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical/computer/controls engineering

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

HIL tooling

Job description

General Motors in Warren, MI seeks a Power Electronics Controls Engineer to lead design and integration of controls for high-voltage power electronics, including DC/DC converters, inverters, and onboard chargers. Translate vehicle requirements into robust control strategies, calibration, diagnostics, and verification plans for validation and production launch.

This hands-on role spans controls architecture, embedded software, hardware integration, lab and vehicle testing, supplier direction, and