Senior Power Electronics Engineer - Nidec Motor Corporation

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Job Summary

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the design and development activities of motor control electronics through all stages of the product development life-cycle.
• Participate in designing motor control electronics ranging from low voltage DC products to 120/240Vac line powered products and including 480Vac industrial products. Typical design tasks include writing design specifications, performing design analysis and simulations, capturing circuit schematics, participating in design reviews, guiding the PCB layout process, creating BOMs and assembly drawings, and overseeing prototype, engineering validation, design verification, and agency certification phases of projects
• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software.
• Implement OEM specific Hardware or software feature requirements in the existing and new products
• Create and maintain project documentation – design requirements, BOMs, test procedures, drawings, Software documentation, test reports and manuals
• Work with manufacturing to introduce designs into production on schedule, including creation of test specifications and collaboration on test equipment
• Work with PCB designers to ensure schematic, part library, component placement and trace routing are done correctly
• Work with software, mechanical, motor design, and application groups to optimize product designs for low cost and high quality
• Work with the quality group to support failure analysis and recommend design and process changes to improve product quality

Additional Job Details

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of applicable experience in a product development environment.
• A demonstrated understanding and application of vector control, field-oriented control, and sensor-less software algorithms for Surface Permanent Magnet (SPM) and Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) Brushless synchronous motors.
• Experience in power electronics products; inverters, dc-dc converters and switching power supplies
• Working knowledge in the design of conditioning and sensing circuitry for adjustable speed drives
• Proficient in developing embedded code in C and assembly
• Experienced in SCR, TRIAC, IGBT and MOSFET technology
• Working knowledge of gate driver circuits for IGBTs, MOSFETs and fly-back power converter topologies
• Experience working with voltage levels, protection, and component selections up to 480Vac
• Familiar with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DVMs, signal generators, power supplies and other standard EE lab equipment.
• Possess strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for the repair of digital circuits and analog circuits to component levels
• Must be self-motivated, organized, capable of working independently and as a team to solve engineering problems in a logical and efficient manner.
• Work on the requirements and test required for completing agency approval certification (example: UL, CE)

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.