Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Company: IPN Brainpower Consulting Inc.
Location: Burnaby, BC
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Our World-Class Engineering Team has an opening for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join our award winning group in Burnaby, BC. The talented individual will have a strong background in Designing Power Electronics Hardware, Passion for new technologies and a strong Team Player.
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for, and owns delivery of product design from concept to production release in accordance with internal project management process. These activities to include all cycles of product development from design, test, debugging, EMC, safety compliance etc.
 Conduct experimental tests and evaluate results, including electromagnetic compliance (EMC), Electromagnetic immunity (EMI),
 Leads and/or participates in developing product functional specifications, theory of operation, design verification test procedures and creates various technical assets for products.
 Leads and/or participates in design, analysis and development of electronic circuit design for embedded hardware, mixed signal and power conversion circuitry.
 Applies best practices to maximize balance between, design complexity, reliability, product cost and design for manufacturability.
 Provide technical thought leadership on multi-disciplinary design team of electrical, mechanical, technicians, manufacturing etc, through complete product development cycles.
 Diligently executes design concepts through a combination of computer simulation, laboratory empirical testing and design verification testing.
 Execute discipline of maintaining records of design calculations, simulations, tests and other design records in project repository.
 Develops engineering test plans to verify electrical, environmental and functional compliance of the design to it functional specification.
Qualifications:
Experience and Education
 Bachelor’s Degree or higher education in Electrical Engineering with focus on Power Electronics.
 Minimum 7+ years of Engineering experience Designing Power Electronics Hardware.
 UPS, Uninterruptible Power Supply or Renewable Energy Industry, preferred.
 Solid history of execution on several development projects from concept to industrialization.
 Knowledge and experience in design of power conversion topologies for DC/DC and DC/AC converters at power levels from 1kW to 100KW. Three phase, Multi-level inverter design experience is a strong asset.
 Experience designing with and selecting IGBTs, IGBT gate drivers, MOSFETs and MOSFET gate drivers. Component loss and stress calculations and design margin application. Component selection for semiconductors and passive components.
 Experience in hardware design and interfacing embedded microcontrollers and FPGA’s. Experience developing control algorithms and embedded controller design along with converter stability analysis.
 Familiarity or design experience in communication protocols such as Modbus/TCP, EtherNet/IP, CAN, USB etc.
 Performed worst case analysis and strong knowledge and familiarity with design for reliability (DFR), design for Quality (DFQ), FMEA principles and practices.
 Experience with Printed Circuit Board layout requirements for power electronics and high speed and mixed-signal circuitry.
 Experience in EMC design principles, EMC design and testing including preventative approaches.
 Experience developing for compliance with industry safety standards and certifications (e.g. UL1741, CSA107.2, IEC62109, NEC, NFPA 70E, etc.).
 Solid understanding of good product design principles and standards, including those for hardware, firmware, and product safety.
 Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for documentation creation, discussions, correspondence etc.

Apply via email by sending an adequate resume (PDF or MS Word document) to: jobs@ipn-brainpower.com