Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Company Overview

Flux Marine is a high-growth marine technology start-up located in Bristol, RI that is designing electric outboard motors from the ground up without using legacy combustion engine parts. This allows our motors to maximize efficiency and minimize maintenance without compromising performance vs gas engines. Our technology has many applications including commercial, recreational, yacht tender, and defense markets.

Job Overview

Flux Marine is seeking an experienced Power Electronics Engineer to join our Advanced Development Group that is responsible for early-stage new product development and prototyping. You will work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical design, software and testing engineers and have full visibility to the whole product development cycle. Core responsibilities include hardware design for traction inverters, dc/dc converters and other power electronics for our high voltage outboard motors. We promote a hard work, high reward environment with tremendous opportunities for advancement within the company as we continue a period of hyper-growth. As a part of this role, you will have visibility into the other projects in development at the company and will regularly engage with the executives and founders on the progress of your work.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Traction inverter hardware design, schematic/layout, component selection and bill of materials generation.
• Evaluating and sizing the IGBT power modules and matching to electric machines.
• Collaborate with EMC team to assure regulatory compliance, functional safety with embedded software team.
• Inverter problem debugging and failure analysis.

Qualifications & Experience

• A BS degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related field. Graduate degrees are a plus.
• 5+ years of experience with traction inverters design.
• Advanced PCB design and embedded systems development experience.
• Familiarity with IGBT power modules, gate-drivers and automotive level processors designed for traction inverters.
• Standard communication protocols, including CAN BUS, SPI and I2C and supporting electronics design.
• Experience on hardware development in context of ISO 26262 and ASIL.
• Ability to create simulation models with MATLAB/Simulink.
• EMC mitigation and PCBA quality control methods, experience on battery management systems are a plus.
• Excellent grasp of the fundamentals of electrical engineering and safe working procedures.
• Self-motivated worker with strong attention to detail.

Equal Opportunity Notice: Flux Marine is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Flux Marine is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Flux Marine are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Flux Marine will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.