Senior Power Electronics Engineer - High-Power Converters

Accelevation; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus

Paid time off

401(k) retirement plan with company | 

Comprehensive health, dental, and vis

Job summary

Accelevation is seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to design, develop, and validate high-power power conversion hardware for industrial and data center applications. This hands-on role requires strong experience in power converter design, prototype bring-up, debugging, testing, and production support.

You will lead design efforts for AC/DC and DC/DC converters, select topologies, semiconductors, and sensing/protection schemes, while collaborating across engineering teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in power electronics hardware design.
• Hands-on experience with high-power AC/DC and/or DC/DC converters.
• Experience with SiC MOSFETs, IGBTs, gate drivers, sensing, protection, and DC-link design.
• Strong schematic design and hardware troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with high-voltage and high-current PCB design practices.
• Proven experience with prototype bring-up, laboratory debugging, and validation.
• Ability to independently take hardware from design through validation and production support.

Responsibilities

• Design high-power AC/DC and DC/DC power converters.
• Select converter topologies, power semiconductors, gate drivers, sensing, protection, and DC-link components.
• Perform electrical, loss, efficiency, thermal, and component stress calculations.
• Develop and review schematics and support high-voltage/high-current PCB layout.
• Support magnetics, EMI filtering, grounding, creepage, and clearance design.
• Lead prototype bring-up, debugging, and hardware validation.
• Develop and execute functional, thermal, transient, and fault testing.
• Troubleshoot switching, thermal, EMI, sensing, and component failure issues.
• Collaborate with embedded, mechanical, test, manufacturing, and supplier teams.
• Support product qualification, production release, and field issue resolution.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers.

Skills

Power electronics

High-power converters

SiC/IGBTs

Schematic design

HV PCB design

Prototype bring-up

Thermal/EMI analysis

Education

Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

PLECS

PSIM

MATLAB/Simulink

LTspice

Job description

Accelevation is seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to design, develop, and validate high-power power conversion hardware for industrial and data center applications. This hands-on role requires strong experience in power converter design, prototype bring-up, debugging, testing, and production support.

You will lead design efforts for AC/DC and DC/DC converters, select topologies, semiconductors, and sensing/protection schemes, while collaborating across engineering teams to ensure