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Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.
Job Responsibility:
Design and develop fault tolerant and high power density motor controller including drivers, sensors, power stages, and embedded control interfaces
Be responsible for all aspects of power electronics designs from components, circuits, modules and system integration
Passive component design and optimization in power electronics systems
EMC and Lightning design, analysis, and testing for low voltage and high voltage electronic systems
Lead new designs from conception into production while working with a multidisciplinary team
Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and manufacturing
Requirements capture, topology trade-study and performance modeling
Schematic, layout and PCB assembly design and review
Design and carry out prototype verification tests for proof of concept
Analyze test data and reports to verify functional and performance specifications
Troubleshoot and execute root cause analysis on prototype and production designs
Requirements:
Electrical Engineering Degree or equivalent experience
8+ years of relevant electrical system and circuit board design experience
Sound knowledge and hands-on experience in traditional and modern power electronic technologies including (not limited to): Inverter technology for variable speed motor drive (MOSFET, rectifiers and gate driver PWM technologies)
Passive power devices, e.g. inductors, capacitors, resistors and transformers
Power electronics system architecture design and hardware integration
Motor drive and power converters (AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC) control technologies
Motor control and commutation methods for various types of three phase motors
Microcontrollers and processors
Sensor technology and implementation
Gate drive design for wide bandgap devices (SiC and GaN)
Experience with 1-10kW inverters at 400V-1000V
Experience in using schematic capture and circuit simulation software (e.g. Altium Designer or Xpedition)
PCB layout experience
Experience performing circuit design analyses such as worst-case circuit analysis, fault analysis, and reliability analysis
Experience in design for test and design for high volume manufacture
Mastery of all types of lab instruments: oscilloscope, EMC analyzers etc.
Excellent organizational and communication skills
Nice to have:
Hands on experience with DO-160G testing and DO-254 development