SENIOR POWER ELECTRONICS ENGINEER (M/F/D)

Job description

As a Senior Power Electronics Engineer at EGSTON Power Electronics GmbH, you will apply your deep technical expertise to the design, development, validation, optimization, and customization of cutting-edge power amplifiers for Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) systems. This is primarily an office-based position, with occasional trips to customers of up to 5% of your yearly working hours.

Your responsibilities

• Designing, developing, testing, optimizing and customizing power electronic converters for EGSTON’s existing and next generation PHIL systems.
• Evaluating advanced circuit designs for high-performance power electronic converters.
• Defining requirements and specifications for digital controllers (MCU, DSP, FPGA) to ensure robust implementation in power converter systems.
• Conducting circuit modeling and simulations (LTspice, PSIM, Simulink, or equivalent) to validate and optimize the converter designs.
• Actively participate in PCB layout design for power electronic converters, ensuring reliability, manufacturability, and safety compliance, with expertise in tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD, or equivalent.
• Applying expertise in magnetic components design.
• Designing and implementing high-bandwidth digital controllers for prototype power converters and developing bare-metal software in C/C++ for embedded system prototypes.
• Ensuring compliance with Low Voltage Directive (LVD) and EMC regulations (CE marking process).
• Supporting system-level design, prototyping, and validation, including PHIL system integration.
• Providing technical guidance to junior engineers and sharing knowledge with peers.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or equivalent qualification.
• 7+ years of experience in power electronic converters design and development.
• Expertise in:
  • Low-voltage (<1500 V dc), high-power (>25 kW) power electronic converters design.
  • Analog and digital circuit design (measurement and signal conditioning circuits, hardware protection circuits).
  • Simulation tools (Pspice, LTspice, PSIM, PLECS, Simulink).
• Expertise in development of power electronic converters, including:
  • Multi-stage, ac/ac, ac/dc, dc/dc, dc/ac power electronic converters.
  • SST-based power converters concepts.
• Expertise in using wide-bandgap devices (SiC MOSFETs, GaN HEMTs) in power electronic systems.
• Experience in PCB layout design for high-power power electronic converters, using professional EDA tools (Altium Designer is preferred).
• Experience in thermal management in high-power power electronic converters.
• Experience in magnetic components design, and related EMI/EMC considerations.
• Experience in high-bandwidth controller and power converter design for PHIL or real-time systems.
• Experience in bare-metal software development for embedded controllers.
• Experience in LVD and EMC compliance for power electronic converters.
• Experience in testing, validation, and certification of power converter systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with real-time simulator platforms (e.g., Opal-RT, Typhoon HIL, RTDS).
• Expertise in digital control algorithms (PID control, predictive control, state machines).
• Proven ability to innovate and solve complex technical challenges.
• Familiarity with grid code compliance requirements.
• Experience in high-frequency PCB design (up to 10 GHz).

What we offer

• A Forward-looking technology-oriented environment with excellent professional and personal development and training opportunities.
• An international team of experienced and motivated coworkers and fast and effective internal communication channels.
• A strong innovative spirit, cooperation with universities and research institutions as well as our customers’ R&D teams.
• Flexible working hours (flextime) and opportunity to work from home.

An annual gross salary of at least EUR 60,000 (full-time) is planned for this position. The actual amount of your remuneration will depend on your qualifications and your experience and will be agreed upon individually.