Electronics Hardware Engineer

Milwaukee Electronics

$95K — $115K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in power electronics design.
  • At least 3+ years in developing power supplies, with a focus on bidirectional systems.
  • Proficiency in analog circuits and familiarity with digital control for power supplies.
  • Hands-on experience in design verification and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop advanced power supply electronics, including PCB design and test analysis.
  • Build and troubleshoot prototypes, analyzing and interpreting test data for product modifications.
  • Generate comprehensive test plans and documents for compliance and validation.
  • Collaborate with firmware engineers to innovate integrated control solutions.
  • Prepare detailed design documentation and presentations for design reviews.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to create a significant impact within an innovative company.
  • Collaborative work environment that values accountability and quality.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and materials in the power electronics field.
Full Job Description
Description

Why This Role Matters

This is an opportunity to create an impact in an innovative company on a growth trajectory.

Who You Are

You will be a results-oriented team player who drives accountability, quality, and efficiency within your department and across the Company. You will be a strong communicator who enjoys working with others to improve various aspects of the company.

Position Overview

We are seeking a skilled Hardware Engineer to design and develop advanced power supply systems, including AC/DC or AC/AC power supplies, DC/DC regulators, electronic loads and related power electronics products for commercial, industrial, research laboratories and military markets. Responsibilities include design and test of electronic circuits as part of a multi-discipline team for electrical analysis, detailed design, and control. This is a hands-on position that includes both design and project management responsibilities across the entire product development lifecycle of power supplies unipolar ,bidirectional and bipolar 4 quadrant, typically in the 100W to 300 kW power range; 3V to 10kV voltage range using a combination of linear ,switching power topologies, controlled analog or digital (DSP/MCU) ,devise their control loops , hot-swap and supervising circuits .

Key Responsibilities
Power Supply Design & Development: Design and develop electronics circuits including Design Analysis, Schematic Capture and PCB design. Researches, develops, design, directs fabrication and testing of power supplies, special assemblies and loads.
Benchmark Breadboard & Testing: Perform benchmark on similar designs, build and troubleshoot breadboard concept and prototype. Record, analyze, and interpret test data, making necessary product modifications and conducting retests.
Design Validation & Testing: Generate test plan and fixture. Produce test procedures and help with providing specifications for design and validation /verification reports
Collaboration & Innovation: Collaborate with firmware and embedded engineers to drive innovation for analog electrical design integrated DSP/MCU digital control systems. SMPS and latest materials innovation (Sic, Gan) in SMPS/PS.
  • Technology Roadmap Contribution: Create Analog electrical design solutions and technical support to a variety of novel and complex projects throughout life cycle stages.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to define the best power supply topology, resolve technical issues that arise in the supply chain.
  • Design Documentation: Prepare detailed design documentation, including schematics, BOMs, and test procedures, writing reports, give design review preparation and presentations.
  • Compliance & Standards: Ensure designs comply with relevant safety and regulatory standards (e.g., UL, CE, ISO), EMI/EMC or Mil-Std requirements.

Required Qualifications
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
  • Experience: Minimum of 6 years of experience in power electronics design and validation. With at least 3+ years in developing power supplies. Experience with bidirectional, four quadrant power supply and recuperating energy is a plus.
  • Technical Skills:
    • Proficiency in designing analog circuits and familiarity with digital electronics applied to power supplies control, hot-swap circuitry, and PDN design.
    • Experience with low voltage and high current power subsystems using DSP (e.g., MCU, SoC, ASIC, FPGA).

o Thorough understanding of power conversion principles (rectification, inversion, regulation, etc.) and basic converter topologies (buck, boost, fly back, etc.)
    • Demonstrated experience designing power electronics or power supply design and its associated topologies preferred. Knowledge of operational, instrumentation and power amplifiers.

o Hands-on experience (design verification, troubleshooting and bench work)

o The position requires technical skills, interpersonal skills, and personal initiative, ability to multitask, energy and enthusiasm, passion for analog electronics
Tools & Simulation:
    • Familiarity with schematic and PCB CAD tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence).
    • Experience with simulation tools such as SIMPLIS, SIMULINK, ANSYS SIWave, Multisim, SPICE or equivalent.
    • Knowledge of control theory, loop compensation, and magnetics design.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to analyze and resolve power delivery-related hardware issues.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced Degree: Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in power electronics.
  • Industry Experience: 7+ years in power delivery validation and design.
  • Interface Expertise: Experience with power management interfaces (e.g., PMBus, I2C, SPI, GPIB, LXI).
  • Architecture Familiarity: Familiarity with major power supplies architectures AC/DC linear, switch-mode, AC/AC power conversion, power amplifier classes AB, B, D, G and battery-based DC/DC.
  • Automation Skills: Proficiency in using C, C++, Python for testing and automation/script development, DSP code programming.

NPI Experience: Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI) hardware design and deployment cycle.

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