Lead Engineer Power Electronics Design (m/f/d)

Your Contribution:
The Lead Engineer Power Electronics Design is a design and development role within the Advanced Battery Core Electronics Team that reports directly to the Global Electronics Engineering Manager. This important role provides technical solutions within in a team environment to design and develop power electronic circuits and components as part of the Battery Management System (BMS) that goes into Clarios’ new generation of lithium-ion batteries. The electronic BMS is critical to the performance and safety of the battery. As a member of this team, you will be exposed to the latest in BMS technology and contribute to developing “best-in-class” electronic battery controls.

This position is responsible for the electronic design and development of power electronics and components within the battery management and ultra capacitor systems. This position is responsible for design, development, testing, and verification activities for current and future electronic products to ensure all requirements and development processes are satisfied.

This role is based in Hannover, Germany.

Responsibilities: What You Will Do

As a Power Electronics Design Engineer you will leverage your power electronics knowledge and experience to create innovative and cost-effective solutions from prototype to production. You employ your knowledge to bring a design through the entire product development cycle from requirements definition to design and analysis to test and validation. You utilize your analytical and methodical problem-solving skills to address complex problems. You understand that collaboration and communication drives improvement, best practice, and helps to eliminate roadblocks. Your knowledge of design and analysis tools supports accuracy and efficiency in your daily work and enables you to strengthen the team by working with other engineers.

Typical duties:

• Perform power circuit and component design

• Develop new highly efficient architectures / technologies meeting requirements that will improve performance, safety, and reliability

• Create schematic and PCB design in Altium Designer

• Develop buck / boost bi-directional DCDC electrical architecture and detailed circuit design with power levels up to or greater than 1KW

• Perform circuit analysis/simulation, including power analysis using industry accepted tools

• Component selection for DCDC controllers, inductors, capacitors, MOSFETS, gate drivers, busbars, input filter, and power connections

• Perform input filter, power supply, solid state and electro-mechanical relay, and busbar design and analysis

• Design for thermal and EMC management to satisfy requirements compliance

• Prepare and review detailed documentation for product design such as: DFMEA, test plans, test procedures, and test reports

• Execute high current / power testing and characterization

• Develop and execute engineering verification and validation test plans and reports

• Identify root-cause of potential issues and make design recommendations to meet the highest level of reliability and performance

• Support other engineering functions for successful integration of power electronics into battery systems and ultra capacitor manufacturing processes

• Hardware design process development for certification in automotive energy safety systems

• Develop and maintain prototype and testing lab equipment used in power / high current testing

• Work with multidisciplinary team of software, mechanical, system, test, safety, and production engineers to develop a successful product.

• Follow program timing and deliver results according to plan

• Ability to effectively work in a cross functional team environment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: What We Look For

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in power electronics

• Solid years (5+) of professional experience in circuit level power electronics design and development

• Proficient with Altium Designer or similar simulation tools

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Organized attention to detail, promoting a first-time right culture

• Humble and willing to accept feedback to learn and consistently improve upon self and product

• Able to respectfully collaborate with coworkers

• Experience in taking power electronics from concept to production

• Experience with isolated and non-isolated circuit topologies and control techniques

• Experience with soft-switching and resonant topologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Magnetic component design experience

• Experience with automotive product development and qualification

• Experience with EMI noise mitigation

• Experience with GAN and SiC power components and high precision analog design

Benefits: What we offer you

As a technology leader with strong brand (i.e. VARTA® and OPTIMA®), Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:

• Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement and sustainability.

• Arrange your working hours and breaks flexible via our flexible and trust-based working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our mobile work policy and company kindergarten.

• A competitive remuneration package, including additional payments such as holiday, Christmas as well as company pension program.

• Your well-being is very important to us: Take advantage of our preventive health care offers such as fitness center, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs.

• Stay fit whilst at the same time positively contributing to our environment: Lease your company bike.

• Our well-advanced onboarding process and buddy program supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Internal Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally.

• Last, but not least we support you in relocating and finding a flat in location surrounding if applicable and depending on individual factors.

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About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF).

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