Senior Power Electronics and Controls Engineer

Spellman•Hauppauge, NY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation is a family-owned business with over 75 years of experience in powering progress across health, security, and quality of life. They are key partners with leading manufacturers in medical devices, semiconductor, scientific analytics, and industrial systems, providing high voltage power solutions. With global design and manufacturing sites, Spellman is a preferred provider for OEMs pushing technological boundaries. The company is seeking a highly talented, motivated, creative, and experienced Senior Engineer in Power Electronics, Power Management, and Digital Controls technologies. This role is critical for advancing the power electronics technology roadmap, supporting existing products, and enabling next-generation products. The successful candidate will independently develop new power electronics concepts for mass production and support ongoing customer product development. Knowledge in power electronics and Controls (PID) design and simulation is required, along with the ability to design and develop products from high-level requirements. Professional experience in power supplies, inverters, DC-DC converters, magnetics, and high voltage technologies is a plus. Soft skills, coaching, and mentoring are also key requirements.

Requirements

BS degree with minimum 8 years of relevant experience or MS degree with 5+ years of experience or PhD with 3+ years of experience preferred, in Electrical Engineering with specific focus on: PID (Proportional-Integral-Differential) controls design and implementation including hardware, software and firmware.
Power Electronics converter design, modeling, build and test.
In-depth knowledge of the physics of semiconductor technologies (active and passive components) including SiC and GaN for power conversion.
In-depth knowledge of analog circuit design.
In-depth knowledge of magnetics and design principles.
Expertise in multi-physics simulations: Controls+Electro-Thermo-Mechanical system modeling in the field of modern power electronics.
In-depth expertise of advanced prognostic and health monitoring as applied to power electronics is a must.
Must be self-motivated, show initiative and have a strong desire to succeed.
Ability to work independently to elaborate on complex technical and/or engineering tasks.
Commitment to fostering high performance, and an environment of open collaboration and teamwork.
Flexible, customer focused orientation with an eye on successful and seamless project execution as well as on the strategic needs of the company.
Passionate about collaborating with other company teams in a multidisciplinary and multi-functional environment (sales and marketing, operations, quality, supply chain), customers…etc. to drive a continuous and strong focus on value creation.
Excellent task management skills and knowledge of other engineering design and analysis tools in the field of power conversion, power management, digital and analog control.
Background in Power Electronics topologies, and digital control using PID control loops, and applications that implement Silicon Carbide, Gallium Nitride, or Silicon Devices.
Excellent understanding of semiconductor non-idealities, losses, and loss modelling.
High level circuit simulation/analysis, testing and debugging.
Demonstrated ability to investigate, design and develop power electronics hardware in a fast-paced environment.
Must be able to multitask while delivering excellent results in a multi-priority environment.
Strong command of fundamental concepts such as thermal dynamics, controls, power conversion topologies, noise immunity and EMC.
Verbal and technical language proficiency in English.
Skilled using laboratory test & measurement equipment.
Strong knowledge in power electronics simulations tools (PSPICE, Matlab / Simulink and others).
Strong understanding of schematics and PCB layout.
General competency in all core fields (power conversion, electronics, electromagnetics, controls hardware, firmware and software).
Excellent problem definition and solving techniques as well as good organization and documentation abilities.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and with others.
Participate in and contribute to strategic discussions regarding products, markets, and technology/product road-mapping.

Nice To Haves

Professional experience in power supplies, Inverters, DC-DC converters, Magnetics, and high voltage technologies is a definite plus.
Soft skills, coaching and mentoring, are all key requirements to be successful.

Responsibilities

Product design working from high level requirements.
Designing, developing power conversion and control circuits, modeling/simulations, component selection, bread-boarding, testing, troubleshooting, problem solving, system integration and reporting results.
Product architecture development to enable robust solutions.
Detailed circuit design and analysis to enable reliability and producibility.
Project Planning for applied technology development needs.
Interface with peers in the Engineering team to implement features desired as described in product and application requirements.
Support the review and interpretation of internal/external customer requirements.
Provide detailed written design theory and design documentation.
Provide detailed cost analysis versus performance gains.
Provide detailed design verification reports, MTBF, DFX, Life Cycle Performance.
Review product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements and applicable specifications (industry standards and homologation requirements).
Lead and oversee product design reviews and provide applicable approval for design changes, specifications.
Ensure compliance with all Spellman and other governing security regulations.