What are the responsibilities and job description for the Power Electronics Co-Op position at Schneider Electric?
As a Power Electronics Co-Op, you will join a high-performing R&D team developing advanced power conversion technologies that enable the world's largest AI and cloud computing infrastructures. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge power electronics products, gain hands-on laboratory experience, and collaborate with experienced engineers across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and system engineering disciplines.
Duration: 6 months, January 2027-July 2027
What will you do?
- Support the design and development of next-generation high-density DC-DC power converters and power shelves for AI data center applications.
- Contribute to the development of advanced 800V power distribution and conversion architectures enabling efficient delivery of megawatt-scale AI workloads.
- Perform modeling, simulation, and analysis using tools such as PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink, LTspice.
- Assist in the design and evaluation of magnetic components, analog circuits, gate drive circuits, and digital control systems.
- Conduct laboratory testing, characterization, and validation of power converters, power semiconductor devices, and system-level hardware.
- Analyze converter performance including efficiency, power density, thermal behavior, and transient response.
- Support debugging, root-cause analysis, and optimization of hardware prototypes.
- Collaborate with electrical, firmware, mechanical, reliability, and manufacturing engineers throughout the product development cycle.
Required qualifications
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related engineering discipline.
- Completed coursework in power electronics, circuit analysis, control systems, electromagnetics, or related subjects.
- Strong understanding power conversion principles for AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC converter topologies.
- Experience with power electronics simulation tools such as PLECS, MATLAB, Simulink, LTspice.
- Located and able to work in Andover, MA
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with high-power or high-voltage power converter design.
- Familiarity with isolated DC-DC converter topologies such as LLC, Dual Active Bridge, multi-level and multi-phase converters.
- Understanding of wide-bandgap semiconductor technologies including SiC and GaN devices.
- Experience with embedded systems, DSPs, microcontrollers and digital control.
- Familiarity with schematic capture and PCB design tools such as Cadence.
- Experience with magnetic component design and thermal analysis.
- Exposure to 800V DC power systems or data center power infrastructure.
- Prior internship, laboratory, research, or project experience involving power electronics hardware development.
- All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. The company does not provide sponsorship now or in the future.
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