Engineer II - Power Electronics Hardware

Position Overview

The Engineer II – Power Electronics Hardware is responsible for supporting the design, development, and sourcing of electronic hardware for advanced powertrain modules, including Inverters, Powertrain Control Modules, Battery Management Modules, and both DC-DC and AC-DC Converters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop specification/requirement for developing power stage, control board and gate driver board of different modules, switches through cascading the requirement from the design specification.
• Decompose system level requirements to drive component level design requirements.
• This role can include bespoke designs, upgrade of existing designs, and applications engineering.
• Support Powertrain team from specification to design, prototype, and investigation on manufacturing for quality issues and development of a high-performance powertrain.
• Select components for the design and work with suppliers to develop advanced components.
• Optimize designs for system performance, quality, DFM/DFA and cost.
• Lead and participate in Design Reviews.
• Test and debug electrical hardware at circuit board and assembled product level.
• Develop automation testing setup for module level validation.
• Support SW (BSW & ASW) engineers for hardware-software integration work.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong suppliers interface skills.
• 2+ years of professional experience in high-voltage power electronics design, development, and testing – focused on DC/AC inverters, DC-DC converters, on-board chargers, power supply, and power distribution systems (automotive experience preferred).
• Understanding of global industry standards (IEC, ISO) and trends to provide the latest technology solutions.
• Experience working with 12V, 400V, >800V voltage levels and component selections.
• Hands on experience in power electronics hardware development including design, debugging and validation of: Semiconductor switching waveforms, loss modeling and thermal management.
• Experience in PCBA circuit design and layout for optimal placement strategies for better manufacturability, power/signal routing and EMC optimization.
• Experience in PCB bring-up, bench-test & determine root cause for issues identified.
• Experience in IGBT, Si/SiC, and GaN MOSFET WBG technology and working knowledge with IGBT and MOSFET, gate driver circuit design.
• Design power and control circuit components including LV power supply, EMI filters, magnetics, semiconductors, gate drives, sensing, protection circuitry and control logic.
• Hands-on hardware experience and strong understanding of power converter (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC) and OBC design.
• Familiar with schematic capture and power converter circuit simulation tools such as Altium/MATLAB/PSIM/PSpice/MathCad. Perform Circuit Simulation, WCA analysis.
• Experience in embedded software development with TI/Freescale/TriCore/DSP 32-bit processors.
• Experience in microprocessors, such as Infineon tri-core family, NxP MCUs.
• Experience in data logging with Vector CAN tools.
• Experience in automation testing equipment.
• Knowledge of Functional safety ISO26262.
• Basic knowledge of Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001:2015) and Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001:2015), as applicable.

Benefits & Perks:

• Medical Plan choices include HMO, PPO & HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan).
• Dental & Vision Plans.
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account.
• Employee Health & Well-Being Program Events.
• Company Paid Basic Life & AD&D Insurance.
• 401(k) with Employer Match.
• Relocation Assistance (if applicable).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Sick Time, Vacation time and Personal Floaters.
• Paid Holidays including Company’s Annual Year End Shutdown.
• Karma Cares Program (Monthly lunch & breakfast).
• Work life Balance (Flexible and Hybrid Work Schedule).
• Employee Driving Program.
• Pre-taxed Commuter Benefits & much more!

Compensation

Compensation: $95,000 - 110,000 /annual salary. Compensation will vary DOE. At Karma, our base pay is one part of our total rewards package. Compensation offered may vary on multiple factors, including market location, education, skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position being offered.