Power Electronics Engineer

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires a Power Electronics Engineer/Electrical Engineer to be based in their client's office in Derby, UK.

This is fully onsite role.

This is a 6-Months temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitative Market rate

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with supplier to develop and optimize power electronics systems for electric motor applications, including motor inverters, power supplies, motor controls, and associated sensors.
• Design, develop, and test power electronics circuits and control algorithms, ensuring their performance, efficiency, and compliance with safety requirements.
• Conduct detailed analysis and simulations to assess the behavior, efficiency, and thermal characteristics of power electronics systems under various operating conditions.
• Collaborate with the supplier's engineering team to define and refine the requirements, specifications, and interfaces for power electronics systems.
• Perform thorough validation and verification activities, including hardware testing, performance characterization, and troubleshooting.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts in power electronics design methodologies, simulation techniques, and validation procedures.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate power electronics systems into the overall electric motor architecture, ensuring seamless operation and reliability.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in power electronics technology, industry standards, and best practices, applying them to enhance our electric motor systems.

Key Requirements

Essential

• Minimum 5 years, preferably 10 years, of extensive experience in power electronics design
• Proficiency in designing motor inverters, power supplies, and motor control systems, considering safety-critical requirements.
• Take part in development of Electrical propulsion system which involves Motor, Inverter and Control Electronics power electronic circuits through development and validation phases.
• A good knowledge of the most common converter topologies, both non-isolated and isolated.
• Experience with magnetics design and implementation
• Proficiency in using Spice simulators for switching converters analysis (ideally considering parasitic elements contribution when relevant): switching transients, stability analysis, etc
• Experience with diagnosis, debug and component, assembly and system level testing methodologies.
• Practical knowledge of advanced/resonant converter topologies and associated regulation schemes (both analog and digital)
• Familiarity with sensor technologies used in electric motor systems, such as position sensors, temperature sensors, and current sensors.
• Experience with analog sensors such as high voltage, and current sensing and resolvers
• Familiarity with power systems to meet creepage and clearances for operations up to 1000VDC.
• Qualification of systems to aerospace standards (eg, DO160), including EMC and environmental testing.
• Familiarity with reliability, risk, or safety analysis tools (DFMEA) and Fault Tolerance
• Deliver testing and validation activities to meet timescales and comply with aerospace standards and customer requirements.
• Ability to write technical documentation (eg, test and validation reports).
• Experience with simulation tools (PSIM, PLECS, exposure to MATLAB/Simulink) for power electronics circuit analysis and control algorithm development.
• Solid understanding of thermal management principles and considerations for power electronics in electric motor systems.
• Excellent team player with effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with both internal and external engineering teams.

Desirable

• Knowledge on Magnetics Design, EMC/Filter design,
• Familiarity with safety standards and regulations for electric motor systems, such as ISO 26262, CS-E, DO-254 and DO-178.
• Experience in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and system integration for power electronics and motor systems.

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