Overview
Role: Power Electronics Engineer
Location: Van Buren Township, Michigan, US - Hybrid
Role ID: 2026-3358
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo Automotive and Industrial (A&I), a member of WSP, and global engineering services partner for clean and efficient integrated propulsion and energy systems. Our experience and history of more than 100 years at the forefront of transport & energy innovation, enables us to deliver solutions to the most complex challenges, allowing our customers across all global transport & energy sectors to achieve a sustainable zero-carbon future. We provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
- Utilizing state of the art tools, design, develop, and test power electronics products for future electrified systems, including: AC/DC, DC/DC converters, Chargers, DC/AC, inverters, EMI filters, bus bar specifications and all related internal components.
- PCBA Circuit Simulation, Schematics, Layout, and Design Review experience.
- Work collaboratively with the Systems, Software/Controls, and Mechanical teams to ensure successful product development.
- Decompose system level requirements to drive component level design requirements.
- Work on a modular and scalable architecture that can be applied across a range of low-voltage and high-voltage electrified systems.
- Responsible for the specification, design, development, testing & validation of power electronics for global electrified applications. This role can include bespoke designs, upgrade of existing designs, and applications engineering.
- Utilize individual and group design, drawing, specification and code reviews to demonstrate and drive the application of robust technical fundamentals to optimize system performance, quality, DFM/DFA and cost.
- Conduct root cause analysis and support troubleshooting in multiple formats (8D, etc).
- Ability to review existing component and system designs to determine if they are adequate for use in multiple applications or if there is opportunity to improve on the existing design for upgraded performance.
- Creativity and innovative ideas for complex system and component challenges.
- Understanding of global industry standards and trends to provide the latest technology solutions.
- Leverage extensive product development assets including team members, test labs, and expert product development capabilities to deliver best-in-class performance, usability and quality.
- Work collaboratively across the North American and Global Ricardo group as well customers locally and internationally.
- Recognized expertise, lead contributor.
- Provides guidance and support to others.
- Other duties as required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering.
- 5-6 years’ experience in high-voltage power electronics design, development and testing – DC/AC Inverters, DCDC Converters, On-Board Chargers, Power Distribution in Automotive, On/Off-Highway, Motorsports, Stationary etc.
- Strong communication, client awareness, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to create a project plan that establishes resources (human, capitol, and outsource), effort, duration costs.
- Experienced in developing and maintaining supplier relationships.
- Highly motivated to succeed, a self-starter who is driven and able to work with others effectively to "get things done"
- Extremely high attention to detail in all aspects of task execution.
- Experience working with 48V, 400V, and >800V voltage levels and component selections.
- Hands on experience in power electronics hardware development including design, debugging and validation of:
- Semiconductor switching waveforms, loss modeling and thermal management
- Magnetic components
- Protection devices and safety issues
- Printed circuit board layout, interconnection, packaging, EMC and EMI
- Circuit simulation and computer-aided design tools (CAD)
- PCB bring-up, bench-test & troubleshooting knowledge
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters or PhD in relevant field.
- Fundamental understanding of switched-mode power conversion as applied to DC and AC circuits and systems.
- Knowledgeable in IGBT, Si/SiC, and GaN MOSFET technology and selection.
- Working knowledge of IGBT/MOSFET gate drive circuits.
- Experience in analog, digital and mix signal hardware design.
- Knowledge of feedback control and stability.
- Control expertise and digital implementation for power converters controls.
- Experience with schematic capture (Altium preferred) and simulation tools (PLECS) for power electronics.
- Experience in PCB layout for power electronics (Altium preferred): minimal stray inductance, EMC/EMI optimization.
- Design for Manufacturing, Design for reliability, DFMEA and fault trees.
- Background designing for UL and CE safety requirements and EMC.
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer. Please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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