Senior Hardware Engineer in Peabody, MA at Volt

Job Description

Senior Hardware Engineer

This person will be responsible for designing, building and continuously improving the state-of-the-art electronic hardware for injection molding equipment. Particular emphasis will be on the PCB design, review, and power electronics’ requirement development, and test.

Responsibilities:

• Power switches and heat sinks selection and sizing: materials, current, voltage, power, thermal, frequency, losses
• Gate drivers design and sizing: turn on/off time, rise/fall time, signal propagation delay, dead time, losses, protection, current sinking, and sourcing
• Voltage source inverter and rectifiers design
• PCB design and simulation
• Hardware requirement development
• PCB design and simulation and validation
• Participates in project planning and execution using Agile methodologies

Qualifications:

• Minimum B.S. in electrical, or related engineering with 8+ years of power electronic hardware design and development experience
• Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding and general board layout principles
• Advanced understanding of semiconductor devices for power electronics
• Exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with minimal oversight

Desired:

• Knowledge in lower level firmware development of embedded system.
• Knowledge in C, C++
• Knowledge in FPGA
• Knowledge in board level communication, such as I2C, SPI

Volt is an equal opportunity employer.