Job Title: Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Location: (Gilbert, AZ)
Duration: Contract - 6 months
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in high-reliability power electronics design, including DC-DC converters, motor control, and power switching and a proven ability to deliver reliable, error-free designs for mission-critical aerospace and defense applications.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and design high-reliability power electronics, including DC-DC converters, inverters, motor drives, and battery-management subsystems.
- Perform circuit design, simulation, component selection, schematic capture, and guide PCB layout with thermal and EMI/EMC considerations.
- Lead hardware bring-up, integration, debug, verification, and qualification activities.
- Develop and review specifications, conduct design reviews, and create test plans and verification documentation.
- Solve complex technical issues using structured root-cause analysis.
- Provide technical mentorship and design guidance to less experienced engineers.
- Collaborate with systems, software, mechanical, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Ensure designs meet aerospace and defense reliability, environmental, and performance requirements.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- 8+ years designing power electronics for aerospace, defense, industrial, or other high-reliability applications.
- Strong experience designing DC-DC power converters or related power conversion circuits.
- Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools such as Cadence Allegro or Altium.
- Experience with simulation tools such as SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, or Mathcad.
- Strong understanding of power semiconductor devices. MOSFET experience required; IGBT, SiC, and GaN are beneficial.
- Experience supporting hardware from architecture through qualification and production.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
Preferred Skills:
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or related field.
- Experience developing electronics for harsh-environment or space applications.
- Experience with radiation-tolerant or radiation-hardened electronics.
- Experience with motor control, reliability analysis (FMEA/MTBF), or system integration.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design reviews.
Power Electronics Engineer in Gilbert at BCforward
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