Vehicle Power Electronics Engineer

7 days ago

Palo Alto, California, United States The Pennsylvania State University Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Vehicle Power Electronics Engineer to join our team at The Pennsylvania State University. As a key member of our Electrical Power and Control Systems Department, you will play a critical role in the development of cutting-edge power electronics for high-performance undersea vehicles and other applications.

Key Responsibilities
  • Drive the full life cycle design and development process to identify competitive, efficient, and elegant power electronic designs.
  • Participate in system requirements identification, flow-down, and functional allocation.
  • Execute detailed design stages, including early design and development processes, design reviews, and resulting in design acceptance with deliverable documentation packages.
  • Capture approved hardware designs in printed wiring board layouts using state-of-the-art CAD tools and demonstrate the design satisfies the identified requirements and expectations during large-scale system integration exercises and requirement verification stages.
  • Use integrated development environments to capture related firmware as part of the design and aid in hardware test procedure development.
  • Test and qualify the hardware/firmware design by applying advanced hardware-in-the-loop test methods to support integration with larger systems of systems.
  • Support test cell and field testing of prototype systems to demonstrate final design.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Science discipline, Master's Degree preferred.
  • 5+ years related experience for the advanced professional level.
  • Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higher-level jobs.
Preferred Skills
  • Altium Design Suite.
  • Embedded C/C++ and VHDL/Verilog firmware languages.
Working Conditions

Your working location will be fully on-site, located in State College, PA. This position will require periodic travel to remote locations in support of testing as part of a small team of researchers, engineers, and technologists.

Security Clearance

You will be subject to a government security investigation, and you must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Employment with the ARL will require successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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