What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Electronics Engineer, Power, Hybrid role position at MKS Instruments?
A Day in Your Life at MKS:
The Principal Electronics Engineer, Power will report to the Electrical Engineering Manager.
You will work on:
Application: New Product introduction for Power electronics (ranging from 3-30KW) for plasma and reactive gas generation, crucial for semiconductor cleaning and etching processes.
Ground-Up Design: Development and release engineering - dive into new architectures and control techniques, leveraging every aspect of power electronics. Enjoy full flexibility to craft your own designs.
Cool Technology: Transition from analog to digital systems, embracing cutting-edge advancements.
Collaborative Innovation: Partner with scientists to explore control mechanisms and gas interactions, gaining insights into exciting technologies.
Interdisciplinary Work: Collaborate with plasma physicists, material scientists and chemists, expanding your knowledge and contributing to groundbreaking developments.
You Make an Impact By:
The Principal Electronics Engineer, Power will report to the Electrical Engineering Manager.
You will work on:
Application: New Product introduction for Power electronics (ranging from 3-30KW) for plasma and reactive gas generation, crucial for semiconductor cleaning and etching processes.
Ground-Up Design: Development and release engineering - dive into new architectures and control techniques, leveraging every aspect of power electronics. Enjoy full flexibility to craft your own designs.
Cool Technology: Transition from analog to digital systems, embracing cutting-edge advancements.
Collaborative Innovation: Partner with scientists to explore control mechanisms and gas interactions, gaining insights into exciting technologies.
Interdisciplinary Work: Collaborate with plasma physicists, material scientists and chemists, expanding your knowledge and contributing to groundbreaking developments.
You Make an Impact By:
- Leading new power electronics related product development projects that involve a multi-discipline engineering team.
- Performing engineering analysis using simulation tools such as PSIM, Simulink/MATLAB, SPICE, Mathcad or other related tools.
- Develop, document, and execute DVT plans. Report on results and recommend appropriate engineering tradeoffs to optimize functional performance, reliability, and product cost.
- Creating and archiving design reports and other product documentation.
- Collaborating with embedded control engineers to integrate firmware with power electronics hardware components.
- Participating in cross-functional project teams to execute upon new product developments involving power electronics for plasma generation applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with 6 years’ experience in power electronics design. Advanced degree is preferred.
- Must have a record of project leadership from the conceptual stage to the product launch under schedule pressure.
- Must have demonstrated experience in the design of resonant inverters operating at 400KHz or above, boost or buck converters, or single/three phase power factor correction topologies in the 3-30kW power range.
- Must have solid analytical skills with the ability to simplify and present complicated systems.
- series and parallel resonant topologies.
- magnetics component design.
- power converters/inverters that operate with soft switching.
- PCB layout optimization in terms of stray leakage inductance and spacing requirements.
- power conversion EMI/EMC filtering design.
- design, development and optimization of firmware for power electronics digital control systems using DSP and MCU platforms.
- knowledge of reliability validation as it relates to power electronics.
- regulatory compliance testing such as compliance related to EMC and safety.
- semiconductor capital equipment preferred.
- Ability to use lab tools such as oscilloscopes, power meters, etc.
