What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Electrical Engineer position at TYGES Manufacturing Recruiting?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Evaluate customer/project requirements and selecting appropriate topologies for DC/AC and DC/DC applications.
- Perform as a lead design engineer for power electronics products including all essential engineering analysis aspects from initial planning stages through study, design, and test.
- Lead, design, develop and test advanced power electronics, such as converters and inverters, using medium to high power switching components (hundreds of kW) and associated protection and gating circuitry.
- Selecting active semiconductor switching devices as well as passive components required for converter power circuits (capacitors, inductors, transformers, etc).
- Lead verification testing on new designs and products.
- Analyze switching and transient behavior of devices to determine limits, proper gating, operation and implementation.
- Design analysis including modeling, simulation, and control loops.
- Optimize designs with an eye toward efficiency, density, and cost.
- Conduct design reviews and follow NPI process.
- Perform hands-on lab work building and debugging prototypes.
- Perform electrical characterization, design validation, and qualification.
- Introduce the product into production.
- Provide technical support for production and field product issues.
- Lead projects and collaborate in cross-functional teams.
- Prepare invention disclosures to protect intellectual property.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Lead the activities and collaboration with contractors to outsource project tasks, track the progress per project schedule, and report it to management team.