Power Electronics Engineer

Industry: IOT
Position: Power Electronics Engineer
Location: Livermore, CA
Salary: $150-170k + potential ESOP DOE
100% paid health insurance
401K matching

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• A San Francisco Bay Area-based IoT company is currently seeking a highly motivated Power Electronics Design Engineer to support the development of alpha and beta prototypes of a cutting-edge renewable energy technology. The responsibilities include:

  • Contributing member of a multi-disciplinary team composed of systems, hardware, software engineers, and senior management

  •  Capable of designing power electronics for low as well as high power applications. Must be knowledgeable of power supply topologies, advantages and limitations, control feedback loops, and making appropriate trade-offs given design constraints such as cost, part-availability, efficiency, thermal, as well as other time to market objectives.

  • Designing with the following technologies;
  o High powered MOSFETs and planar inductors

  o Digital design experience to include microcontrollers

  o Communication interfaces such as USB 2.0/3.0, WiFi, Ethernet, SPI, and I2C

  o Software simulation of analog and digital circuitry using SPICE or other similar application

  o Embedded software development using C and/or C++

  • Comfortable interacting with vendors in support of out-sourced components and services

  • EMI/EMC compliance testing and mitigation

  • Schematic capture and PCB layout using CAD tools such as Dip Trace or other similar application

  • Devise experiments to optimize system performance

  • Apply statistical tests to determine the efficacy of alternative approaches

  • Unafraid to pursue new ideas while at the same time being results oriented

  • Provide leadership and mentoring when appropriate

  • Strong written and oral communications skills

  QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

  • MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering

  • Five years minimum experience in a design role with increasing responsibility

  • Basic understanding of statistics and an ability to apply

  • Knowledge of linear as well as stochastic systems

  PREFERRED SKILLS

  • Experienced in working with safety agencies such as UL/IEC is a plus

  • Knowledge of design techniques for manufacture, test, cost and reliability

  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies

  • Good communications and interpersonal skills – capable of interacting with technical and non-technical people

  • Expertise designing IoT devices and cloud communications

  • Familiar with statistics and machine learning a plus