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Location: Andover

Hours: Monday-Thursday 08:30-17:00 Friday 08:30-15:30

Salary: Competitive

Contract type: Permanent

Reporting to: Head of Power Electronics

Company benefits

Free onsite parking across all sites

Bi-annual bonus scheme

Free Tea & Coffee and modern kitchen facilities to use throughout your day

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company Christmas closure

Training & development support

Company fun events

Perkbox

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Flexible working

Employee well-being support

Company sick-pay

About us

At Custom Interconnect we plan to succeed and never fail! Our values dictate that we have an unrivalled passion for providing the best Electronics Manufacturing Support on offer, with an honest and open attitude to business.

Our vision is to be customers’ first choice for the manufacture of mission critical, high technology electronics, adding value globally, and we are dedicated to delivering innovation and service excellence by investing in; design, build and fulfilment of our Customers Products.

Formed in 1987, as a company CIL have grown steadily to become one of the major Electronics Manufacturing Service companies available today. Located in Andover, Hampshire, our 3 manufacturing facilities comprises 80,000sq ft of modern production space to meet our customers’ needs.

About the role

An excellent opportunity has become available at CIL to join our Power Electronics team, as a Principal Power Electronics Engineer. The purpose of this role is to provide expert knowledge and be the focal point for Power Engineering and Electronic design activities within CIL. Encompassing principal design, verification and manufacturing proposals, whilst maintaining a high level of industry knowledge to keep CIL products relevant and competitive.

Primary duties & responsibilities

* Design automotive-grade inverter hardware such as semiconductor power modules

* Characterise, test and model key power electronic components and sub-assemblies

* Advise, perform and own power module qualification testing to industry or customer standards

* Schematic capture and PCB/DBC/AMB circuit layout and analysis

* Produce technical documentation, including; manufacturing packs and test procedures

* Track developments in manufacturing techniques in Power Electronics and related industries to

* maintain up to date manufacturing processes knowledge

* Use of reliability, risk or safety analysis tools for the analysis of hardware, e.g. FTA, DFMEA

* Simulation and evaluation of electrical and thermal models

* Use of design and analytical CAD packages such as PLECS, Simulink, Matlab, LT/PSPICE software or equivalent, ANSYS Electronics Desktop, ALTIUM

* Interfacing with and exceeding customer expectations

Ideal experience & Qualifications

Essential:

* MEng/MSC Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

* An extensive power electronics background with a focus on wide-bandgap power module design and packaging

* Experience designing and working with a range of applications using GaN and SiC.

* Practical experience with DC/DC and DC/AC converters, gate drivers, high frequency inductive and capacitive components, and EMC/EMI requirements

* Extensive experience with development, analysis, and validation of design solutions using prototyping, simulation and test techniques

* Proficient use of various modelling and simulation tools; PLECS, Simulink, Matlab, LT/PSPICE software or equivalent, ANSYS Electronics Desktop, ALTIUM

* Support in development and testing of robust and reliable hardware/software solutions

* Expected travel to customers, suppliers and academic events across the UK (periodically) and Europe (rarely) to perform the role of product expert to front the capability of the company

* Capable of mentoring junior engineers in product and process engineering best practice

* Proactive by nature with a can-do attitude

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills both with internal and external stakeholders

* Team Player and self-motivated

Desirable:

* PhD with experience in a relevant discipline

* A practical knowledge of functional safety standards, such as ISO26262

* Familiarity with relevant automotive legislation and guidelines

* Experience using and designing inverter power-stages for automotive traction drives Electric machine control theory

* Proficient level of 3D solid modelling software

* Chartered Engineer status

If this opportunity sounds ideal for you and would like to discuss the job in more detail, please don't hesitate to contact us and check out our website. Additionally, we would love to receive your application today