Senior Power Supply Hardware Engineer

Brief Description

The Power Supply Electrical Engineer position is part of the Product Development Team. This is a full-time, exempt position. This position will require a broad range of responsibilities to ensure success. Some examples of these responsibilities are listed below (but are not limited to the following):

• Participate in supporting design, development and sustaining electrical engineering activities within cross-functional teams including design, manufacturing, and test engineering groups.
• Utilize electrical design and development tools used in capturing circuit design schematics, laying out printed circuit boards, and performing circuit simulations.
• Provide sustaining support for designs that include analog circuits that interface with sensors, AC/DC power supplies, and communication circuits (e.g. Ethernet I/P, 4/20mA, RS-485,…)
• Perform electronics design verification testing activities and provide evidence to engineering supervisor and peers that designs meet or exceed specification requirements and customers’ needs.
• Participate in design reviews and collaborate with other engineering disciplines.
• Troubleshoot power supplies and electronic circuits to a functional block or component level.
• Support electronics circuit card manufacturing and product manufacturing by improving product designs, streamlining manufacturing processes, reducing manufacturing costs, and improving quality.
• Work with a cross-functional team and external suppliers to develop power supplies.
• Work with outside contractors to build subsystems.
• May perform modeling and simulation, controls development.
• Utilize analytical tools available in the industry, including thermal design, algorithm development for power supply control, and magnetics design.
• Develop test plans, conduct testing, analyze results and document results in reports.
• Develop and maintain design documentation including schematics, bill of materials, specifications, and user manuals.
  
  

Systems Used

• Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, PPT, Excel)
• SyteLine
• UKG
• Solidworks
• Altium
• Mathcad
• Simetrix or other Spice based simulation tools.
  
  

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years in the industrial power supply industry
• Knowledge of High Voltage and Current Design from PCB to final Assembly.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and enhance existing product design.
• Knowledge of Industrial Plating / Surface Finish power design a plus.