Junior Power Electronics Engineer - consumer electronics

Junior Power Electronics Engineer - R&D - Bristol

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in an R&D environment on Power Electronics for world leading technologies. The Power Electronics Engineer will work on R&D alongside technical specialists and motivated, creative people, to create truly different technologies in Power Electronics and Motor Drives.

Essential experience:

* Motor drive electronics including power MOSFETs, IGBTs, driver circuits/ICs and diodes (mains and low voltage)
* Understanding of device characteristics and issues with switching behaviour in real circuits
* Device selection - Interpretation of datasheets and knowledge of design methods to confidently select the lowest cost devices while achieving reliability targets
* Thermal design
* Hardware Design including power electronics, analogue hardware, microprocessors, and voltage/current sensing methods
* Low voltage and mains voltage equipment
* PCB layout
* DFMEA
* EMC
* Design and development of power electronics drive circuits from initial conception through to production implementation
* Use of modern test equipment for measurement and analysis of power electronic circuitry Knowledge of PCB design and understanding of layout issues for combined power and control circuitry
* Analytical capability including use of circuit simulation tools
* Failure analysis/problem solving capability

Desirable experience:

* Design of charging and protection systems for Li-ion batteries
* Use of dynamic motor simulation to model device losses/device rating and EMC compliance
* Awareness of issues related to embedded software
* Power supply design
* Magnetics design
* Project management (including use of planning tools)
* Assembly supplier selection

Benefits include 27 days holiday, pension scheme, health care, staff bonus (company performance), child care vouchers, relaxed dress code and free professional advice.

Please provide a cover letter for all applications, addressing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria.

Key words: power electronics, power supplies, analogue hardware electronics, design, motor drives, low voltage drives, BLDC, brushless, circuit, project management, EMC, DFM, consumer electronics, south west, bristol, thames valley, Bristol, England, UK, united kingdom.

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