As a Senior Power Electronics Engineer, This is your opportunity to join a well-established technical team in Leamington Spa who work on the latest in Electric Motor technology used in Hydrogen fuel cell technology and other cutting edge applications. We are seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to work on Design, Validation and documentation of electronic circuits. You will have the opportunity to be part of supporting projects that use patented technology which enables them to make the world’s fastest accelerating and most power-dense permanent magnet variable speed electric motors. Duties and Responsibilities: * Be responsible for technical ownership of power electronic circuits, through concept, development and validation. * Provide technical delivery of development activities to meet timescales and cost targets for R&D products and customer projects. * Interface with suppliers and partners with technical requirements and feedback for existing and new designs. * Work closely with other engineering disciplines (e.g. embedded SW, PCB layout, mechanical design etc.) to develop complete systems. * Support system integration by providing debugging capability and validation support. * Lead design and functional safety activities. * Lead process development activities. * Ensure all tasks are carried out in a safe and controlled manner, whilst also being compliant with quality requirements. * Ensure that you always comply to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements and act as a role model to others on site. * Ensure you understand product safety and customer specific requirements and help to ensure that they are always met. Knowledge and Experience * Degree qualified in an Engineering or Science related discipline as a minimum. * Extensive experience of power electronics design * Experience in motor drive design a particular advantage including inverters and DC-DC converters, high speed motors. * Use of schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium. * Experience in mathematical modelling and simulation of circuits and systems, e.g., SPICE, PLECS, SiMetrix. * Use of reliability, risk or safety analysis tools for the analysis of hardware, e.g. FTA, DFMEA. * Qualification of systems to automotive standards (e.g. ISO16750), including EMC and environmental testing. * An understanding of functional safety analysis, design, and validation to standards such as ISO26262 or similar. * An appreciation of rotating machine design and motor principles. * Writing technical documentation. e.g.: Worst Case Analysis * Experience with analogue circuit design, high voltage and current sensing techniques, different inverter topologies or Snubber Designs. * Double pulse testing. * Designing electrical power systems to meet creepage and clearances for operation up to 1kV
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