Power Electronics Application/Development Lead Engineer

Job Description

Role Summary:

This Power Electronics Lead Engineer will join a world-class engineering team and will provide technical oversight for internally-funded research and development programs working closely with the business development, bids & proposals, and technical sales teams to define requirements translating customer's long term needs into viable products.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Partner with the business development team to translate customer requests into requirements for research and development programs
• Implement high level customer requirements into prototypes to be tested in-house, which will be given to the customers for their evaluation
• Develop and provide support to a SiC module product line including the development and use of datasheets, application notes, and customer evaluation kits
• Develop and support gate drivers / controllers for the SiC module product line
• Design, analyze and document new/existing converters and inverters
• Design and analyze analog circuitry, digital signals, PWMs, SiC Devices, and GaN devices
• Design power stages including estimation of losses and efficiency
• Gate drive architectures and circuit design for Si IGBT, GaN and SiC devices
• Work directly with customers as programs transition to detailed design
• Work directly with Engineering Program Managers to ensure program commitments are met
• Support Cleanroom development activities
• Provide sufficient documentation to enable conversion to production

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an Engineering Development environment
• Experience in power electronics related design and development, including familiarity with motor drives, gate drivers, analog circuitry, and magnetics, bus bars, cooling technologies and thermal management solutions, embedded systems, EMC, and gate drives
• Ability to work with software and firmware-controlled power converters and power systems, must be willing to work in a high-voltage/high-power lab environment
• Professional experience in designing power supplies, inverters and converters
• Familiar with power semiconductors: MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC, GaN, etc.
• Familiar with MATLAB/Simulink, PSPICE, various Ansys Software, Mathcad
• In order to be considered for this opportunity, you must be considered a US Citizen

Desired Characteristics:

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited University or college
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the design of analog / digital power electronic circuits
• Experience working with FETs and associated power modules
• Significant experience in power electronics and motor drives with power levels up to 250kW and DC link voltages to 1000V
• Experience with EMI/EMC design, test and troubleshooting
• Experience with System Engineering processes from design through test verification/validation and qualification
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About Us:

GE Aviation - Electrical Power, Pompano Beach is a recognized leader in the design and manufacturer of custom-engineered power conversion. Our site is predominately a US Military supplier providing equipment for a wide variety of land based, shipboard, missile and aircraft applications including air transport, rotorcraft and military fixed wing. We occupy a 22,000 square foot facility, designed specifically to provide vertical integration of the broad range of capabilities required to provide us with control over all aspects of the design, development, prototype build and qualification of products. We are a complete engineering design center utilizing digital, analog and creative packaging technologies to develop and qualify new products. Many of these new products support advanced power conversion requirements for a wide range of applications that include state of the art radar and laser systems. Pompano is a more recently developed community located just outside of Ft. Lauderdale, offering beautiful southern Florida weather all year round!
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Additional Locations:

United States;Florida;Pompano Beach. Fort Lauderdale, Miami;