Senior Power Electronics Circuit Design Engineer

BAE Systems•Village of Endicott, NY

5d•$88,189 - $149,922•Hybrid

About The Position

At BAE Systems, we promote a strong, collaborative culture and provide our employees with the tools, skills and training they need to succeed. We are all about trust, camaraderie, and a shared mission on delivering world-class products to our commercial and military customers. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment and 9/80 work schedule. BAE Systems is ingrained in our community and determined to improve our future and protect our freedom. The Controls and Avionics Solutions (CAS) business is experiencing unprecedented growth. Our two design centers in Endicott, New York and Austin, Texas are the home for our next generation technical solutions. Engineers will develop flight and mission-critical products for commercial and military customers. You will have the opportunity to help design and develop the next generation: Fly-By-Wire Flight Controls, Aircraft Engine Controls, Ground Vehicle Power Management Systems, Aircraft Electrification Systems, Advanced Air Mobility Systems, Autonomous Flight Systems, Flight Deck Systems, Cabin Management Systems, Weapon Control Systems, and Mission Systems for the world's most prominent aircraft and vehicle manufacturers. When you become a member of our team, you will work across multiple disciplines and collaborate with Systems, Hardware, Software, Test, and Operations during all phases of the product development and production support lifecycles. These roles involve a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work and will take the form of a hybrid work schedule, with time split between working onsite and remotely. Position Summary Join our team of Power Electronics Circuit Design Engineers who are tasked with the architecture, design, test, and verification of high-reliability DC/DC and AC/DC power electronics. In this position you will support the development and product support of advanced avionics, for both military and commercial aircraft, including engine control computers, flight control systems, aircraft propulsion systems, cabin and cockpit electronics. As a Senior Power Electronics Circuit Design Engineer you will make impacts in the following ways: Design, test and qualify DC/DC and AC/DC power electronics to support various military and commercial flight control and propulsion system applications. Conduct internal research and development to push our power electronics technology forward and help provide innovative solutions for our customers. Support aftermarket in troubleshoot and root cause corrective actions for field returns, production test failures, and product improvements. Leverage and reuse existing designs within the CAS portfolio to reduce risk, schedule and cost of new development Write, review and track hardware requirements to show overall compliance to customer and industry specifications Collaborate with EMI/EMC Engineers and Systems Engineers to design robust and reliable power electronics Own and execute the part selection, schematic capture, PWB layout, circuit performance analysis and simulation and design verification testing

Requirements

BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 5 or more years of industry experience designing and testing power electronics
Experience with isolated and non-isolated DC/DC and AC/DC power supplies with power levels up to 500W.
Experience with hardware troubleshooting and debug
Experience with design analysis tools such as LTSpice, PSpice, SIMPLIS, Matlab and MathCad.
Experience performing component level circuit stress and derating analysis
Experience in circuit tolerance analysis considering end of life and environmental limits
Experience in designing for EMI/EMC and Lightning Protection
Familiar with PWB design, component layout and trace routing constraints specific to switching power supplies

Nice To Haves

MS/MEng in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 8 or more years of aerospace industry experience designing and testing power electronics
Highly proficient in design analysis tools such as LTSpice, PSpice, SIMPLIS, Matlab, and MathCad
Experience with buck, boost, sepic, cuk, flyback, and forward converter topologies
Experience working in high voltage/high power lab environment
Experience in designing for and testing to MIL-STD-461 and DO-160 standards
Experience with Siemens Xpedition® EDM (engineering data management) tool suite
Experience with mitigating fault propagation and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA)
Experience in writing technical requirement specifications for avionic hardware
Some experience with analog, digital and mixed signal circuitry
Some experience with digitally controlled power converters and systems
Some experience in Model Based Engineering

Responsibilities

Design, test and qualify DC/DC and AC/DC power electronics to support various military and commercial flight control and propulsion system applications.
Conduct internal research and development to push our power electronics technology forward and help provide innovative solutions for our customers.
Support aftermarket in troubleshoot and root cause corrective actions for field returns, production test failures, and product improvements.
Leverage and reuse existing designs within the CAS portfolio to reduce risk, schedule and cost of new development
Write, review and track hardware requirements to show overall compliance to customer and industry specifications
Collaborate with EMI/EMC Engineers and Systems Engineers to design robust and reliable power electronics
Own and execute the part selection, schematic capture, PWB layout, circuit performance analysis and simulation and design verification testing