Senior Power Electronics Engineer - Magnetics at OmniOn Power – Plano, Texas
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About This Position
We empower smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions ensuring the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. We provide the latest industry insights and technology to develop solutions needed to meet customers evolving challenges, including innovative critical power solutions designed for high reliability and performance. Our culture is one of quality and operational excellence fueled and supported by talented people, tools and processes, and expertise.
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As a Lead Power Electronics Engineer Magnetics, you will be responsible for magnetics design of power supply products for datacenter, industrial and telecommunication applications. You will own the magnetics from concept, simulation, test, qualification and release to mass production. The projects will include New Product Introduction (NPI), New Technology Introduction (NTI), Direct Material Productivity (DMP), resolving customer issues, and sustaining existing products. Reporting to the R&D/ Senior Technical Manager, this position will be expected to demonstrate leadership globally.
Your responsibilities include:
- Lead high frequency magnetics design for AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies, with focus on power density, cost and efficiency
- Collaborate with electrical hardware, thermal and mechanical teams to design magnetics to meet overall power supply performance requirements
- Conduct simulations using ANSYS to provide multiple options at early stages of the product design for a tradeoff analysis
- Work with suppliers to develop production grade magnetics by suggesting to them the optimal options for cores, conductors and insulators
- Consult safety engineer to ensure the magnetics design meets electrical safety standards
- Develop laboratory prototypes and test them
- Provide support to qualification team before launching mass production
- Prepare invention disclosures to protect intellectual property
- Mentor junior engineers
Basic Requirements:
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Power Electronics or equivalent from an accredited university or college
- Minimum of 7 years of hands-on magnetics design experience, with focus on power electronics applications
Desired Requirements:
- Solid knowledge of core materials, litz-wires, foil and PCB winding technology
- Experience in using EM simulation tools like ANSYS Maxwell
- M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering / Power Electronics preferred
- Experience in designing magnetics for high frequency SiC/ GaN power converters
- Knowledge of UL and CE electrical safety requirements for magnetic components
- Solid understanding of thermal, mechanical and packaging techniques and associated challenges related to magnetics
- Circuit simulation experience (PLECS/ PSPICE/ SIMPLIS/ SIMetrix)
- Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to drive projects to completion
About Us
We are a customer-first provider of innovative critical power solutions. Our product portfolio is designed for high reliability and performance, and our services team is a trusted partner with exceptional domain expertise backed by a proven track record.
Our customers rely on us to provide the latest industry insights and technology, to develop solutions needed to meet their evolving challenges.
We are looking for passionate and talented people who are interested in helping our customers realize the full potential of 5G, support expansive data center demands, and power Industry 4.0.
Our culture is one that we have fostered over many years; one of quality and operational excellence which is fueled and supported by our talented people, tools and processes, and our know how. Our customers value and recognize these attributes and because of it, have maintained deep and long-standing relationships with us.