Location: Blueprint 2, Walworth Business Park, Andover, SP10 5LH
Working hours: Monday-Thursday 08:30-17:00, Friday 08:30-15:30
Reporting to: Engineering Technologies Manager
Contract type: Permanent
About the role
An excellent opportunity has become available at CIL to join our Power Electronics team as a Principal Power Electronics Engineer. The purpose of this role is to provide expert knowledge and be the focal point for Power Engineering and Electronic design activities within CIL. Encompassing principal design, verification, and manufacturing proposals, whilst maintaining a high level of industry knowledge to keep CIL products relevant and competitive.
Primary roles & responsibilities
* Design automotive-grade inverter hardware such as semiconductor power modules.
* Characterise, test and model key power electronic components and sub-assemblies.
* Advise, perform and own power module qualification testing to industry or customer standards.
* Schematic capture and PCB/DBC/AMB circuit layout and analysis.
* Produce technical documentation, including manufacturing packs and test procedures.
* Track developments in manufacturing techniques in Power Electronics and related industries to maintain up-to-date manufacturing processes knowledge.
* Use of reliability, risk or safety analysis tools for the analysis of hardware, e.g., FTA, DFMEA.
* Simulation and evaluation of electrical and thermal models.
* Use of design and analytical CAD packages such as PLECS, Simulink, Matlab, LT/PSPICE software or equivalent, ANSYS Electronics Desktop, ALTIUM.
* Interfacing with and exceeding customer expectations.
Qualifications
* MEng/MSC Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
* An extensive power electronics background with a focus on wide-bandgap power module design and packaging.
* Experience designing and working with a range of applications using GaN and SiC.
* Practical experience with DC/DC and DC/AC converters, gate drivers, high frequency inductive and capacitive components, and EMC/EMI requirements.
* Extensive experience with development, analysis, and validation of design solutions using prototyping, simulation, and test techniques.
* Proficient use of various modelling and simulation tools; PLECS, Simulink, Matlab, LT/PSPICE software or equivalent, ANSYS Electronics Desktop, ALTIUM.
* Support in development and testing of robust and reliable hardware/software solutions.
* Expected travel to customers, suppliers and academic events across the UK (periodically) and Europe (rarely) to perform the role of product expert to front the capability of the company.
* Capable of mentoring junior engineers in product and process engineering best practice.
* Proactive by nature with a can-do attitude.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills both with internal and external stakeholders.
* Team player and self-motivated.
* PhD with experience in a relevant discipline.
* A practical knowledge of functional safety standards, such as ISO26262.
* Familiarity with relevant automotive legislation and guidelines.
* Experience using and designing inverter power-stages for automotive traction drives and electric machine control theory.
* Proficient level of 3D solid modelling software.
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