Power Electronics Engineering Manager

Job Description

Job Description
Job Summary

We are seeking a hands-on engineering manager to lead our clients electrical engineering team and provide deep technical leadership for the architecture, design, and release of high-power, high-density motor drive and power conversion products—from concept and modeling through validation, production launch, and sustaining engineering. Combine people leadership with strong subject-matter expertise in power electronics, including power stage architecture, analog controls, magnetics, thermal design, and EMI/EMC performance. Partner closely with firmware, test, manufacturing, quality, and applications teams to deliver robust products that meet efficiency, thermal, cost, schedule, and reliability targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the electrical engineering team, with oversight of PCB engineering and organizational management responsibility for the mechanical engineering team.
• Set technical direction for power electronics architecture, design methods, and hardware platforms, aligning execution with company priorities, product roadmaps, and business goals.
• Architect and review power stages for servo drives and AC/DC conversion topologies, including component selection, derating, efficiency, thermal performance, and reliability.
• Guide design of gate drive circuits, sensing (current/voltage), protection, and analog front-end conditioning for accurate control and safe operation.
• Oversee development and tuning of analog control loops and filters for power conversion and servo amplifier functions; ensure stability across operating conditions.
• Drive differential and common-mode filtering strategies to meet EMI/EMC goals, and lead collaboration on grounding, shielding, layout, and packaging constraints.
• Oversee auxiliary and bias power supply design (isolated/non-isolated) supporting both power and control domains.
• Establish expectations for loss, thermal, and derating analysis; drive cooling requirements and verify design margin through test.
• Lead design reviews, risk assessments, sustaining engineering decisions, and design standards to improve product quality, manufacturability, and development consistency.
• Perform trade studies and provide analytical guidance for internal and external stakeholders on cost, performance, risk, and schedule impacts.
• Own staffing, prioritization, and execution across the electrical and PCB engineering functions, while coordinating management oversight of the mechanical engineering team.
• Partner with manufacturing and applications engineering to support bring-up, debug, root-cause analysis, and customer escalations as needed.
• Additional job duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of electrical engineering and power electronics design experience (15 years preferred), including industrial motor drives and/or power conversion products, with prior technical leadership or people management experience.
• Strong background in analog closed-loop control design (stability analysis, compensation, filtering) for industrial power supplies and motor drives.
• Experience with mixed-signal power electronics up to ~800 V and ~500 A, including protection, sensing, and safe operating area considerations.
• Hands-on design of linear and switching power supplies (on-board and offline; isolated and non-isolated) and associated magnetics/components.
• Proficiency with analysis and simulation tools such as SPICE and at least one of MATLAB/Simulink or Mathcad to model power circuits and control loops.
• Ability to lead electrical and PCB hardware development, including design reviews, cross-functional coordination, and execution, while providing organizational oversight for the mechanical engineering team.
• Ability to lead PCB layout constraints and reviews for high power density and low EMI (creepage/clearance, current return paths, dV/dt, and thermal considerations).
• U.S. Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Residency required to meet ITAR Registration requirements.

Required Education

• Minimum: M.S. in Electrical Engineering; Ph.D. is a plus.
• Strong technical foundation in power electronics, controls, and/or hardware system design.
• Relevant coursework or demonstrated expertise in linear control theory, electromagnetics, power electronics, thermal design, or related hardware disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams in a product development environment.
• Familiarity with industrial safety and regulatory standards (e.g., UL/IEC) and compliance-driven design practices.
• Motor control fundamentals and practical experience with servo drive systems.
• Embedded/DSP control exposure (concepts, interfaces, and hardware/firmware integration).
• Working knowledge of C and common embedded toolchains (helpful for lab bring-up and debug collaboration).
• Deep knowledge of power semiconductors (Si/SiC/GaN), gate drive considerations, and device physics.
• Experience designing magnetics and understanding magnetic materials for power conversion.
• Thermal management and cooling system design experience (heatsinks, interface materials, airflow/liquid cooling).
• Systems-level design experience working across electrical, mechanical, firmware, test, and manufacturing teams.

Shift and Schedule

This is a full-time position located at our Camarillo, CA