Company Generac Power Systems
Name Engineer II - Power Electronics
Req # 63762
Employment Type Full Time
Shift 1st
It is a challenge and an invitation. Most importantly, it is an opportunity to join an industry leader and lead the way within our Generac Clean Energy team.
There has never been a better time to work at Generac. We are shaping the market and investing in new technologies which will assist us in becoming the global leader in the Clean Energy Storage System Market. Our growth enables rapid career advancement opportunities for those who want to be challenged and who enjoy a fast-paced, high-performance culture.
Generac Clean Energy team is seeking an experienced Engineer II - Power Electronics. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to define, develop, test, release, and maintain into production high performance microprocessor-based power converters employed in energy storage subsystems, and switchgear, requiring precise, real-time performance.
Successful candidates should be passionate about enhancing system performance and continually adding new features and functionality to our family of advanced power electronics products. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-moving internal startup type environment as a team player and self-starter who often takes initiative from within teams to bring projects to completion. Many of our most successful team members are passionate advocates for clean energy and this drives a high-energy approach to work.
This position is based in Bedford, MA.
Design and development of next generation DC/DC and DC/AC power converters for residential PV and battery energy storage applications.
Evaluate, model, implement, and test advanced, high performance-electronics HW & and FW controls.
Develop, test, and document designs with appropriate formalism for safety critical applications as described in relevant standards such as UL1741.
Perform or support PCB layout for your design responsibilities.
Perform and support analyses to verify the design requirements such as circuit simulation, DFMEA, efficiency, design margin, derating, reliability.
Plan and perform Design Validation Tests of new designs and revisions.
Participate in, and at times, lead Design Review of new designs and revisions, including for DFM and DFT.
Prior experience in developing power converters for DC/DC converters, motor drives, uninterruptable power supplies, solar inverters etc.
Experienced in designing custom magnetics for power high frequency converters.
Prior experience in EMI evaluation and testing of power converters.
High density PCB layout experience with an emphasis on EMI mitigations. Altium experience is preferred but is not required.
Experience with test equipment typically used for power converter development such as high-performance oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, power analyzers, etc.
Ability to analyze, troubleshoot, design and test complex electronic circuits.
Prior experience with Microsemi PIC microprocessor family, as well as advanced DSP processors from TI such as the TMS320F family is desirable.
Prior experience with the implementation of Distributed Energy Resources such as Solar/PV Inverters or Wind Turbines is desirable.
Grid interconnect requirements experience.
Familiarity with third party certification and testing (e.g. NRTL, environmental).
