Senior Power Systems Engineer

-; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm seeks a Senior Power Systems Engineer with expertise in IGBT-based systems to lead design and testing of innovative power architectures for locomotive and mining applications. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and proficiency in advanced circuit design and analysis tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years industry experience in high-power systems.
• Strong capability in system-level requirements.
• Expert in power converter design with IGBT systems.

Responsibilities

• Own development and design of IGBT-based inverter power architectures.
• Support liquid-cooled designs and battery-electric propulsion.
• Analyze complex system behaviors and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Power converter circuit design

High power transportation applications

Gate drive functional requirements

Matlab

Simulink

Troubleshooting system issues

Electro-mechanical system analysis

Education

Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. (Desired)

Tools

Matlab

Simulink

OPAL-RT

PLECS

Simplorer

Job description

Direct hire Fulltime Role : Power Systems Engineer
Erie, PA

The Senior Power Systems Engineer will own development, design and test of IGBT-based inverter power architectures associated with the propulsion and auxiliary functions on our locomotive and off-highway mining truck applications. Primary focus will be to own and support liquid-cooled design strategies, power agnostic truck designs along with supporting our latest battery-electric "FLXdrive" locomotive system architectures. The candidate will have deep knowledge in high-power inverter/converter systems in the transportation environments and understand battery control topologies.

What do we want to know about you?

• Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering (Ph.D. Desired) w/ 10+ years industry experience
• Strong ability in converting system-level requirements into conceptualized solutions that can be prototyped and/or designed for production use
• Expert in power converter circuit design
• Strong working knowledge and experience with IGBT-based closed-loop control systems in high power transportation applications
• Ability to define gate drive functional requirements.
• Up-to-Date with latest technology trends with ability to integrate our legacy production designs; Established relationships within the power semiconductor industry.
• Silicon and Silicon Carbide power mosfet experience; Working knowledge of semiconductor physics.
• Expertise in Silicon Carbide driving and control
• Ability to analyze complex (electro-mechanical) system behaviors to include common mode, harmonics, ground currents, transient and steady-state operational modes when controlling various DC-DC converter cirucuit and 3-phase motor load types; able to identify parasitic parameters like stray capacitance to ground.
• Strong working knowledge of Matlab, Simulink and ability to create plant-models for OPAL-RT based Hardware in the Loop (HIL) simulators; PLECS and Simplorer expertise is a plus.
• Able to troubleshoot field issues via system analysis and lab testing; design countermeasure to improve system quality (filter / snubber design)

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