Power Electronics HW Engineer

Company Description

HiSpeed Ltd. is a company based in Bicester, Oxfordshire, that specialises in designing, developing, and testing highly efficient compact electrical drives. The company's mission is to promote quality sustainable transportation by providing state-of-the-art, carbon-neutral electric propulsion components to eliminate transport CO2 emissions.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Power Electronics HW Engineer at HiSpeed Ltd. The role mainly involves HW design, development and testing work for power electronics components, especially traction inverters for the automotive sector. Key tasks:

• Electronics / Power electronics circuits design: HV and LV SMPS, HV and LV Gate driving (Si & WBG), analog and digital circuits, signal processing...etc
• Schematics capture, footprint creation, PCB layout in Altium
• Creation of output files for PCB manufacturing, assembly and testing
• Management of PCB/PCBA suppliers
• Management of HW projects in Altium
• Testing of power electronic boards and systems

Desired experience

• LV & HV SMPS: Flyback, Buck, Boost,Buck-Bost, SEPIC, LLC...etc
• Gate driving HV semiconductors ( IGBTs, MOSFETs, SIC MOSFETs, GAN)
• LV electronic circuits (passive & active filters, comparators, sensing circuits, isolation circuits...etc)
• High complexity PCB layouts (6+ layers)
• PCB layout best practices for EMC, signal integrity. DFM, DFT, DFA
• Full lifecycle HW design experience: from concept to manufacturing
• Previous experience with design of HV automotive power electronic systems.
• HW level implications of ISO 26262
• Previous experience with board level testing
• Previous experience with testing HV components
• Previous experience with EMC testing (CISPR 25, ECE Reg 10)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering or related field.

To comply with UK immigration regulations, only candidates with the right to work in the UK will be considered for this role. Proof of eligibility to work in the UK will be required prior to appointment.