Senior Electrical Engineer Technical Lead & Manager at Confidential company

Senior Electrical Engineer Lead & Manager

Position Overview

Lead and manage a highly skilled group of Electrical and Power electronic engineers. The Engineer will work on designing and testing advanced power electronics and control systems, using specialized digital and programmable technologies to improve performance and efficiency. 

Duties

Provide technical leadership to the EE team through the following:

- Design and testing of SiC-based power electronic converter topologies including active rectifiers, isolated DC-DC converters, solid-state-transformers, and high-speed motor drives

- Detail PCB designs including SiC gate drivers, system control PCBs, and support hardware

- Optimize embedded control algorithms, harmonic compensators, software PLLs, etc.

- Develop Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop and Power-Hardware-in-the-loop test setups

- Creation, review, and issuance of prototype and production-level electrical drawings and schematics

Leadership and/or managerial experience with a focus on the following:

- Lead a team of 4-10 engineers through research and product development phases

- Provide technical leadership while also pushing the team to meet customer requirements, schedules, and budgets

- Autonomy to hire new team members and write proposals/bring in new work

- Write and/or review EE-focused patents, whitepapers, and technical conference/journal articles

- Mentor junior and other senior engineers

- Work with other technical leads and the SVP Engineering to determine the technical and strategic direction of the power system group

Minimum Requirements

- BS in electrical engineering, computer science, or related major required

- United States Citizenship required due to US Government ITAR program restrictions

- Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance

- Power Electronics experience

- Management experience of electrical engineers

- Strong electrical engineering experience

The following experience is highly desirable:

- Medium voltage power distribution and design of solid-state-transformers

- High-speed gigabit communications development with high-performance FPGAs

- Hands-on experience with OPAL-RT, Typhoon, PLECS RT Box, or other HIL platforms

- Designing and/or controlling motor drives, AC-DC, and DC-AC converters

- High-speed communications development with high-performance FPGAs

- Experience programming various microcontrollers, DSPs, and FPGAs.

- Direct work with TI C2000 DSPs and Altera FPGAs

- Hands-on experience with OPAL-RT, Typhoon, PLECS RT Box, or other HIL platforms

Immediate Requirements/Projects include:

- High Power SiC and Silicon power device design into converters/inverters

- MV Isolated DC-DC converters

- FPGA and DSP development of AC-DC and DC-DC control algorithms

- Power levels 50kW to 500kW converters that are linked together for higher power levels up in MWs

- Typhoon and PLECS Controller-Hardware-in-the-loop development of a modular multi-level converterand real-time model implementations

- Navy (surface & sub), Army vehicles and infrastructure, Aircraft