Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Eaton Corporation is a leading energy management company. We provide energy-efficient solutions that help our customers manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical energy more effectively, safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Our commitment to improving quality of life and protecting the environment drives our innovative technologies and services

For our Electrical Division we are looking for a Senior Power Electronics Engineer with a proven track record to design and develop power electronics for Eaton products, who will be based in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin and will report directly to the Senior Manager of New Product Development

The Senior Power Electronics Engineer will support multiple new product development projects in high-power single-phase UPS's as a power electronics subject matter expert (SME), developing system architectures, reviewing power topologies and component selection, providing expert technical consulting to solve challenging problems and mentoring.

It will be needed a good ability to communicate complicated technologies in a clear and concise way to a variety of different audiences (business leaders, technical colleagues and lay people).

What you'll do:

• Design and build hardware of power electronics converters for use in Eaton products.
• End to end ownership of hardware - from specification to design, prototype reliability validation and high-volume manufacturing.
• Collaborate with electronics, mechanical, and firmware engineering teams to design, validate and manufacture power converters.
• Collaborate on architecture and modeling of existing and new power converter topologies that achieve better performance.
• Report periodically to the Project Manager / Team Manager
• Engage in the Eaton Quality Process

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent; Masters or PhD preferred.

• 10+ years of relevant hands-on hardware experience in power converter design (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC)

• Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection (Si/SiC/GaN MOSFET's, Diodes), gate drive and protection circuit design.

• Experience with UL and/or CE electrical safety requirements and certification, and EMC requirements relevant to the design of power converters.

• Experience with design of analog/digital circuits and micro-processors.

• Experience in supervision of PCB layout for minimal stray inductance and capacitance, placement strategies for better manufacturability, power/signal plane definition and EMC optimization.

• Experience in modeling power converters and power systems using simulation tools (example: MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, Simplorer, PSIM and/or PSCAD)

Skills:

• Excellent understanding of power electronics topologies (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC).
• Excellent understanding of switching waveforms, semi-conductor losses and experience with loss modeling.
• Excellent understanding of the theory and application of magnetics (inductors, transformers) and capacitors (Electrolytic, film and Ceramic) used for power conversion.
• Familiar with schematic capture and power converter circuit simulation tools.
• Proficiency with basic EE tools (Oscilloscopes, Network analyzers, Signal Generators etc.).
• Understanding of how thermal management affects the overall performance of the system, appreciation for the trade-offs necessary to achieve designs that meet performance requirements and cost objective solutions.
• Creativity for technical solution design
• Ability to expand and deepen area of expertise
• Autonomous, have ease in learning, good teammate, communication and problem-solving skills.

What we offer:

• Challenging projects in a dynamic, collaborative team
• Opportunities for internal promotion
• Long-term investment in employee growth through Eaton University
• Commitment to reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability
• We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

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