If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team - winning is fun. We are looking forward to a Lead Power Electronics Engineer in Eaton's electrical business, based in Shenzhen, China. In Eaton, making our work exciting, engaging, meaningful; ensuring safety, health, wellness; and being a model of inclusion & diversity are already embedded in who we are - it's in our values, part of our vision, and our clearly defined aspirational goals. This exciting role offers opportunity to:
What you'll do:
Eaton is seeking a lead Power Electronics (PE) engineer for its Power Electronics and Battery (PE-Bat) Center of Excellence (CoE).
Eaton's PE CoE accelerates the company's growth through the development of power electronics technology platforms and common hardware building blocks that are scalable, cost-effective, and manufacturable, as well as standardized design methodologies that can be adopted by multiple business units, which provide a foundation for our business to more rapidly develop innovative products.
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This individual will be a member of the PE-Bat CoE and play a key role in driving the development of technology platforms, common building blocks, and design methodologies to be leveraged by multiple business units.
• Performs design, modeling, simulation, and implementation of power electronics circuits for power conversion and protection
• Develops control and protection algorithms for electric motors and power converters
• Builds and measures test circuits. Analyzes data to improve/optimize the designs.
• Evaluates the designs to meet requirements factoring in performance, cost, size, reliability, and manufacturability
• Collaborates with mechanical, thermal, firmware, and testing engineers to successfully develop and validate the designs
• Initiates and leads design reviews and technical discussions, including brainstorming
• Creates technical reports and presentations
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- BS in electrical engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 8 years of related engineering experience in power electronics designs and product development
- Significant modeling, simulation, and analysis experience with tools such as Matlab/Simulink, SPICE, and PLECS
- Significant hands-on experience with power electronics development and testing, especially for medium voltage (MV) applications
- Broad knowledge of power electronics, including various topologies, power semiconductors, and control schemes.
- Customer-focused with good relationship-building skills
- Ability to learn new skills, technical knowledge, products, or industry
- Strong written communication and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
• Strong knowledge of power semiconductors, power electronics passive components (e.g., high-frequency magnetics, power capacitors, etc.), state-of-the-art cooling techniques
• Experience with modern converter topologies, specifically medium voltage (MV) multi-level converter topologies
• Thorough understanding of PCB layout and EMC/EMI design practices, voltage clearance/creepage requirements, insulation, and interconnection techniques
• Experience with EMI/EMC development, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in designing electronics with thermal and reliability considerations (e.g., electronic simulation for DfR and DfM or worst-case analysis)
• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering processes
• Design for Six Sigma certification
• Good English written and oral ability
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented individual.
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Collaborative orientation, the ability to succeed in a highly team-oriented, global, and diverse environment.
• Consistently acts in an ethical, open, honest, trustworthy, and truthful manner.
• Desire for innovation, new product development, program management ... to make what matters work!
• Position requires up to 10% travel domestically and internationally.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.