Power Electrical Engineer

Power Electronics / Electrical Engineers will be involved in:

● Design and testing of SiC-based power electronic converter topologies including active rectifiers, isolated DC-DC converters, solid-state-transformers, and high-speed motor drives

● Design and test DSP-based digital control algorithms, FPGA modulators, and PLC-based high-level system controllers

● Detailed PCB designs including SiC gate drivers, system control PCBs, and support hardware

● Design and test low (1.2 - 1.7 kV) and medium voltage (3.3 – 10 kV) SiC semiconductor modules

● Design embedded control algorithms, harmonic compensators, software PLLs, and other embedded algorithms

● Develop Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop test setups, control cards, and control algorithms

● Experience with medium voltage power distribution, solid-state-transformers, and printed

circuit board design experience highly desirable

Minimum Requirements:

● United States Citizenship required due to US Government ITAR program restrictions

● BS in electrical engineering, computer science, or related major required, with a minimum

3.3 GPA, MS and PhDs a plus

● Ability to obtain a DoD security clearance

The following experience is not required, but highly desirable:

● Designing and/or controlling motor drives, AC-DC, and DC-AC converters

● High-speed communications development with high-performance FPGAs

● Experience programming various microcontrollers, DSPs, and FPGAs.

● Direct work with TI C2000 DSPs and Altera FPGAs

● Hands-on experience with OPAL-RT, Typhoon, PLECS RT Box or other HIL platforms

Immediate Requirements/Projects include:

● High Power SiC and Silicon power device design into converters/inverters

● EMI/EMC MIL 461 Compliance and other MIL spec design requirements

● Multiple parallel/series connected bi-directional galvanically isolated AC/DC, DC/DC

converters

● 13.8 kV and 4160V grid interface power converters

● MV Isolated DC-DC converters

● Power levels 50kW to 500kW converters that are linked together for higher power levels up

in MWs

● Navy (surface & sub), Army vehicles and infrastructure, Aircraft 

Compensation: Entry Level 2-8 years: $80k-$110k