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An opportunity to join a team of world class engineers in creating leading edge power components and solutions. This position provides direct exposure to new products and technologies, with opportunities to innovate and mature ground breaking solutions that represent the state of the art in power conversion. We are seeking engineers with analog skills, creativity, talent, experience and a drive for success in a collaborative work environment. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has strong analytical and problem solving skills, good background in analog electrical engineering, and extensive experience modeling and simulating power electronics. There are many opportunities to advance and increase responsibilities in Product Development Engineering in support of growing product lines.
Job Responsibility:
Development of models for characterizing performance of power electronic converters and systems
Support definition of new products by providing design assessment and trade-off analysis
Develop models of power systems to assess stability, transient, and EMI performance
Verify model functionality, correlate performance and accuracy against bench data
Run power and signal integrity simulations to extract PCB parasitics on modules and systems
Provide automation for rapid and dynamic design analysis and assessment
Development of design calculators to accurately model performance of power converters
Development of tools for enabling customers to architect, simulate, and configure power systems
Writing specifications and working closely with other organizations to ensure that models meet customer and market requirements
Working independently and with other members of the team on various projects involving Vicor Power Components
Creating documentation and training material for customers and Field Application Engineers
Requirements:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, MSEE a plus
3+ years experience in power electronics design and/or applications
Experience designing DC-DC and/or AC-DC power electronics and systems
Experience simulating power electronics converters and systems
Strong mathematical and theoretical understanding of large- and small-signal model development for power electronics
Extensive knowledge of simulation tools such as Simplis/Simetrix, PSPICE, LTSpice, Qspice, MATLAB, SIMULINK
Excellent understanding of analog design and an analytical approach to engineering
Understanding of feedback and control systems, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) design
Comfortable with lab equipment used in the characterization and design of power supplies and systems (oscilloscopes, DMMs, Network Analyzers, EMI analyzers, loads, sources, etc.)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting at a technical level
Ability to manage projects and work with other departments to meet deadlines and communicate critical design goals
Willingness to learn and adopt the use of software tools in support of job function required
Nice to have:
Experience with modeling and simulating microcontroller firmware and state machines a plus
Experience with PCB simulation tools (Altium, Cadence Power DC, Power SI, CST) for analyzing and optimizing Power Delivery Networks a plus