Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Overview

The Power Electronics Engineer is responsible for creating and implementing electronic hardware products for QSC. The Engineer will design and develop audio specific power supplies and amplifiers with power levels ranging from several watts to tens of kilowatts. A successful candidate needs a broad technical background designing, simulating, fabricating, and testing both switch mode power supplies (SMPS) and class D audio power amplifiers.

Typical responsibilities include analog and digital circuit design, architectural design, schematic capture, circuit modeling and simulation, PCB layout, timing and signal integrity analysis, components evaluation and selection, solving EMC and regulatory issues, bringing up prototypes and troubleshooting, test and validation of the designs.

Engineer is responsible for delivering product design that meets all safety, regulatory, and performance requirements. In addition, the QSC Power Electronics Engineer will provide guidance to junior team members and technicians.

The position requires the individual to work well within a small, cross-functional team consisting of mechanical, software, and firmware engineers, as well as product managers, program managers, manufacturing engineers, and NPI engineers.  The role requires someone who is self-motivated, has excellent problem-solving skills, possesses a keen attention to detail, works well within a small team, and can produce results.

Base Salary Range 132,000 – 190,000

The above reflects the pay range that QSC reasonably expects to pay for this role. This pay range also depends on various factors such as job duties and requirements, relevant experience and skills and geographic location. In addition to the base salary range, QSC offers a comprehensive package including but not limited to health benefits, 401K or Roth retirement plans and generous time off. 

We will be accepting applications until a final candidate is identified.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements analog and digital electronic hardware with an emphasis on audio applications
• Development and analysis of audio electronics components and systems
• Develops power supplies and amplifiers for use in professional audio products.
• SMPS topology analysis and selection
• Design simulation
• Magnetic design and prototype of inductors and transformers
• Tests, validates, and verifies audio performance of audio systems and subsystems.
• Test, qualify, and debug supply and amplifier to meet FCC, CE, UL, etc. standards
• Drives and achieves results that meet aggressive time and cost constraints
• Works effectively with other design engineers, manufacturing, test engineering, and outside suppliers to ensure a high quality, robust solution in minimal time
• Must be self-motivated in order to achieve assigned objectives with minimal supervision
• Lead, mentor, and support junior engineers in their career development and project design efforts
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• BSEE in relevant Engineering Discipline
• 8 + years of design experience from concept to production
• Experience with simulation tool(s)
• Extensive experience with schematic capture and PCB layout software required. (Altium preferred).
• Solid theoretical and practical knowledge of switch-mode power conversion for use in DC/DC and AC/DC power supplies
• Magnetics knowledge for custom design of inductors and transformers
• Solid knowledge of switching devices and component selection
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance requirements and test methods including UL, FCC, CE, and others as appropriate
• Good communication skills, both written and oral, in English
• Superior problem-solving skills: issue identification, problem structuring, analysis, and developing recommendations
• Ability to produce results in a dynamic work environment
• Extensive hands-on experience for bench testing and probing, instrumentation and some hand-soldering
• Ability to produce professional test reports
• Ability to capture and document the work produced in design journals or similar method
• Ability to specify test requirements and procedures
• Thermal management knowledge
• Good analog design experience
• Understanding of reliability
• Knowledge of Control Theory

Preferred Qualifications

• MSEE in relevant Engineering Discipline
• 10 + years design experience
• Experience designing medium to high power SMPS of various topologies
• Experience designing off-the-line converters
• Experience applying Control Theory
• Magnetics design experience for inductors and transformers
• Experience with high fidelity analog & digital audio circuit design, operational amplifiers, and high dynamic range audio data converter
• Experience with Class-D audio power amplifier design
• Experience with design for reliability
• Experience with worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis and Montecarlo analysis
• Experience with C++ scripting and other high-level programming languages is a plus