Power Electronics Design Technical Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - European Recruitment

    European Recruitment
    European Recruitment Birmingham, United Kingdom

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    Job Description

    Technical Specialist / Lead Engineer – Power Electronics Design

    Birmingham

    Powertrain Development

    Requirements

    • Strong numeracy and literacy
    • A minimum of ten years experience is essential and preferably some of this will be in automotive
    • Good logical reasoning
    • Deep experience of Power Electronics Design ideally including Automotive Inverters with experience of "Design for Manufacture"
    • Knowledge of power electronic devices, including silicon based IGBTs and MOSFETs through to emerging SiC / GaN based technologies: gate driver, control architecture and measurement circuits, selection/characterisation of devices for inverter
    • Experience of developing hardware to meet IEC or domain specific variant, e.g. ISO 26262)
    • Experience of relevant CAD/CAE tools for the design of Power Electronic products
    • Experience of working with teams of engineers designing and testing power electronics
    • Experience of RA/SSOW in an HV test environment
    • Evidence of achieving results through effective work against objectives
    • Good communication skills

    Duties & Responsibilities

    • Lead the design of power electronics hardware for traction drive and power conversion systems
    • Capturing and analysing requirements from different stakeholders
    • Design power electronics systems: IGBT/SiC drives, power converter including transistor selection, gate drive design, power inverter design, measurements circuits, microprocessor selection and protection strategies
    • Support the development of electrical and electronics architecture for e-drive applications including HV harness and connectors schematics
    • Perform analysis/simulation of electrical and thermal performance
    • Design and build power electronics test and measurement equipment for internal development activity
    • Developing validation tests for electrical test bench, HiL and vehicle
    • Can develop concept, proving key technologies and demonstrating the system functionality
    • Provide expertise for investigations and problem-solving activities
    • Lead the hardware DFMEA and support functional safety analysis
    • Ensure compliance with relevant EMC/EMI standards
    • Managing the technical delivery of suppliers

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