Electronics Hardware, Senior Design Engineer

SUMMARY OF JOB: Hardware Engineer

This role is located in Schneider R&D Center under Schneider Electric Digital Power Business Unit. Power Quality China R&D team is developing & testing Power Quality mitigation products for China &Global market, including LV components, LV capacitor bank, DVR, Active correction offers.

Hardware engineer is required to design high reliability and high-performance hardware products during the entire development lifecycle of Power Quality products.

Essential Functions:

- Experienced in APF/SVG system design, familiar with various technical topologies and perform detail design based on selected topology.

- Perform root cause analysis and provide proper solution during development phase.  

- Deliver detail parameter calculation and component selection documentation

- Circuit diagram creation/modification with ECAD tools 

- Definition of procedures and test descriptions or definition of acceptance criteria for verification tests 

- Specify, plan, carry out and document test and verification at component, function and device level 

Secondary Functions:

- Cooperate with ECAD engineers to deliver PCB layout

- Cooperate with Firmware engineers to realize functions verification and do troubleshooting if any.

- Cooperate with Mechanical engineers for housing and connector design.

- Cooperate with Test engineers to design for testing.

- Cooperate with Industrial team as industrialization support.

- Participation in national and international project and team meetings

Compulsory:

Experience- Minimum required:

2 years+ working experience in power electronics product design and test.

Knowledge and skills required:

              - Power Electronics engineering skill

- Electronics components knowledge

- Test method and equipment usage

- Electrical and electronics product functionality and standard

- Basic oral and good writing English skills

Ideal:

- Basic understanding of Power Electronics technology product development: design, tools, methods, product verification and validation certification and sustaining.

- Experienced at active power correction products, e.g., harmonic mitigation and power factor correction and load balancing.

- Experienced at Power Device (IGBT, etc.) selection, thermal system design with Mech E, gate drive design, snubber, DC Bus and pre-charge design, electrical system design, simulation tools (SPICE, Matlab, simulink, etc.)