Power Electronics Engineer

American Turbines

$110K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in power converter design
  • Proficient in DC-DC converters, inverters, rectifiers, and chargers
  • Hands-on experience with wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC, GaN)
  • Demonstrated success from schematic design to working hardware
  • Experience in the electric vehicle (EV) industry preferred
  • Familiarity with thermal management and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)

Responsibilities

  • Design and integrate power conversion hardware including converters and protection systems
  • Write specifications for hardware sourced from partners and suppliers
  • Conduct hardware qualification to ensure system compatibility
  • Perform testing on the test stand with real machines
  • Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues during testing

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in high-voltage DC architecture
  • Involvement in the development of next-generation electric vehicles
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Hands-on experience with leading edge semiconductor technology
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Power Electronics Engineer will build the hardware between the generator shaft and the customer's bus. The machine is designed from a blank sheet around a high-voltage DC architecture, that architecture is one of our core bets.

You will design and integrate power conversion hardware: converters, protection, sensing, and the interfaces to controls. Some blocks you'll design yourself, schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC. Others come from partners and suppliers, you'll write the specs, qualify the hardware, and make it work in our system. Then you'll take it to the test stand, run it against a real machine, and fix what breaks.

What We're Looking For

Experience designing power converters at real power levels: DC-DC, inverters, rectifiers, chargers. The EV industry is the natural home: traction inverters, 800 V platforms, onboard chargers, DC fast charging. Hands-on work with wide-bandgap semiconductors, SiC and GaN. You've taken at least one converter from schematic through layout, magnetics, thermal, and EMC to working hardware, production experience is a plus.

You're comfortable on the bench: bring-up, debug, instrumentation, and the discipline to find root cause instead of swapping parts until it works.

Nice to have: exposure to electric machines, and control systems experience from converter control loops to embedded platforms.

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