Electrical Power Design Engineer

Description

• Review and interpret customer specifications in order to design thrust vector actuation control system electronic controllers, valve drivers, power converters, supplies, EMI filters and power management systems. These systems operate from 28V up to 800 VDC and power levels to 50KW.
• Be a key participant for the electrical design team. The role will require supporting efforts of thermal analysts, packaging engineers, firmware design engineers, circuit board layout designers, EMI/EMC design engineers, systems engineers, and test engineers/technicians.
• Provide high performance, cost conscious electronic power designs including: analog and digital circuit design.
• Magnetic design of inductors and transformers and custom power devices such as hybrids, power switches, current sensors and passive devices.
• Will work on a variety of small 5W to large 10KW power supply design topologies, A/D and D/A circuitry, and trapezoidal and Space vector modulated brushless DC motor drives and of a variety of current sense and gate drive design methodologies.
• Work closely with subject matter experts and design leads to support requirements definition and implementation.
• Support team with creation of training materials, standards, processes and tools for team.
• Design, simulate, and analyze circuitry; perform analyses such as tolerance, component derating, power, BIT coverage, stability, EMI/EMC etc.
• Perform initial prototype testing, integration testing, and design verification / validation. Test and troubleshoot electronics, electronic subsystems and circuit cards.
• Specify and support the design of test equipment and test setups.
• Interact with customers on a professional and technical level to help drive the requirements and design to a successful Technical/Cost/Schedule solution.
• Provide formal technical presentations to customers for program reviews and business development.
• Support business unit bid and proposal efforts with cost estimates and technical write-ups.

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