Power Electronics Engineer with Security Clearance

We are looking for a highly motivated power electronics engineer to join our Sensing and Communications Department. Successful candidates will have a BS, MS, or PhD degree in electrical engineering with professional experience in design, development, and test of power electronic systems. Professional experience beyond 5 years is desired, but may not be required in all circumstances. Successful applicants will support the design and development of a wide variety of underwater maritime systems including electromechanical actuation systems, payloads for unmanned underwater vehicles, acoustic communication transceivers, wireless power transfer, and high power acoustic transmit arrays. Candidates must have a proven track record of designing and implementing custom PCBs for prototype R&D systems. Experience designing energy storage system components, DC/DC converters, power amplifiers and magnetics, and interfacing to the embedded processors that control such devices is required. Previous experience laying out boards and/or managing vendors which provide layout services is highly desired, as is experience designing for EMC and testing and integrating PCBs into larger systems. Responsibilities:
• Design, development, integration, and debugging of complex power systems Required Attributes and Skills:
• Experience with power system design consisting of circuit analysis and simulation, component selection, schematic capture, PCB design, and verification testing
• Design of DC/DC and AC/DC power systems ranging from 500 W to 10 kW for use in harsh operating environments
• Experience with implementation of high availability power supplies and/or failover systems
• Comprehensive knowledge of electronic power devices such as MOSFETs, Schottky Diodes, SiC FETs, and IGBT's
• Proven experience designing with electromechanical actuators, DC/DC converters, power amplifiers, and magnetics
• Experience troubleshooting electronic systems
• BS in electrical engineering with a power systems focus
• Able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance Desired Attributes and Skills:
• Prior experience designing electronics for underwater maritime systems
• Experience working with acoustic transducers
• Experience with various power converter topologies such as Buck, Boost, Flyback, SEPIC, etc. and their control methodologies
• Previous experience with or oversight of electronic layout, bill-of-materials, and assembly process
• Experience with common digital communication schemes (RS232/RS422, I2C, I2S, SPI, McBSP)
• Basic understanding of signal processing and Matlab data analysis
• Prior experience creating technical content for new products, ideas, or other business development pursuits
• Experience working in an R&D environment and working in small multidisciplinary teams
• Experience mentoring junior EE staff on electronics design, PCB implementation, and board troubleshooting
• Experience with C/C coding for microcontrollers (or similar)
• Experience using National Instruments (or similar) data acquisition systems and LabView