Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Define specifications and requirements for product hardware.
- Conduct hardware design and firmware control reviews with a focus on high-level system integration.
- Monitor development and create test plans to verify electrical, environmental, and functional compliance.
- Perform FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to evaluate reliability and ensure there are no safety or liability concerns related to the product.
- Coordinate and track product development milestones with the project manager and cross-functional teams (CFTs).
- Oversee DFX (Design for Excellence) updates, Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), and product life cycle management.
- Mentor the team on design to ensure that established technical standards are adhered to during product development.
- Research new development concepts to guide future product innovation.
- Identify cost-competitive technological alternatives that are suitable for scaling up.
- Validate design concepts through a combination of circuit simulations and prototyping.
- Prepare documentation, including bills of materials, circuit diagrams, simulations, design-related documents, and FMEAs.
Desired Qualifications and Skills:
- Master’s degree in Power Electronics with 8-12 years of experience.
- Strong understanding of closed-loop control for power converters and compensator design.
- Experience with high-speed or high-power semiconductor devices, specifically power converter designs over 100kVA and in medium voltage applications.
- Solid technical knowledge, competence, and system-level design experience.
- Proven track record of managing multiple power electronics projects involving analog and digital electronics as well as control circuitry.
- Experience in EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) filter design and product qualification/compliance testing.
- Familiarity with circuit simulation tools like SIMULINK.
- Skills in derating, FMEA, and reliability analysis.
- Excellent circuit debugging and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Experience in writing technical documents such as hardware requirements, product design specifications, test specifications, and board-level design details.
- Strong knowledge of component selection and system integration.
- Good communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
- Experience mentoring small teams with strong decision-making capabilities and the ability to work effectively in an agile product development model.
What can you expect:
- Experience with the latest technologies in power converters for applications involving grid connections and renewable energy.
- A supportive environment that enhances your design and debugging skills.
- Collaboration with a team of motivated and enthusiastic engineers.
A team player who takes responsibility and results-oriented to thrive in a fast-paced environment and willing to lead a team of power electronics engineers.
Ohmium is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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What We Do
Ohmium's mission is to accelerate the adoption of green hydrogen to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors and enable a low-carbon future.
Ohmium designs, manufactures and deploys modular, scalable proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems that enable cost-competitive green hydrogen production.
Ohmium’s systems are vertically-stackable and integrate advanced power electronics, delivering superior value for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications in terms of safety, energy density, scalability and ramp rate. The human-scale electrolyzers are efficient to manufacture, quick to transport and easy to maintain. This versatility enables cost-effective plug-and-play operations that can scale rapidly.
Ohmium has a global green hydrogen project pipeline across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Asia.
