Principal Engineer

About Us

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation, a family owned business for over 75 years, takes pride in powering progress in health, security and quality of life. We are key partners with the world’s leading medical devices, semiconductor, scientific analytics and industrial systems manufacturers. When they want to push the limits of what’s possible with high voltage applications, they turn to us to make it happen.

While Spellman is not a household name, our products are used to make and often power many of the most advanced technologies that make modern life possible. With design and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia, we have become the preferred provider of high voltage power solutions for OEMs pushing the boundaries of technology around the world by designing and producing the products they need to power progress.

Title:

Principle Power Electronics and Hardware Engineer

Reports To: Director, Engineering R&D and Special Projects

OVERVIEW

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. is a leading and growing international company that delivers advanced products and solutions into the medical imaging, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Food Inspection and Transport Security markets at the global scale.

As a part of our continuous focus on offering high performance and cutting-edge products and solutions to our markets, the field of advanced power conversion, power management and controls and embedded systems is of strategic and critical importance. In this context, Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corp. is seeking a highly talented, motivated, creative, and experienced Engineering professional in the field of Power Electronics, Power Management and Digital Controls technologies and applications, to include development, testing and validation.

This position is located in our global headquarters, Hauppauge, NY

Onsite, 5 days per week.

This position allows the candidate to advance the power electronics technologies that both support the existing company product line and enables expansion for the next generation products.

The successful candidate must be able to work independently on new power electronics concepts (advanced development) which can be demonstrated to be mass produced while also supporting on-going customer product development activities as needed.

Candidate must have deep knowledge in power electronics design and simulation. Professional experience in high voltage power supply design environment for highly regulated markets and applications  a definite plus

The candidate must be deadline driven, a self-starter and able to deliver completed assignments with minimum supervision.

Further, in this role, people management / soft skills, coaching and mentoring, are all key requirements to be successful in this role.

What You Will Do:

Technical

• Project Planning for applied technology development needs
• Interface with peers in the Engineering team to implement features desired as described in product and application requirements.
• Support the review and interpretation of internal/external customer requirements
• Responsibilities range from designing, developing power conversion and control circuits, component selection, bread-boarding, testing, troubleshooting, problem solving, system integration and reporting results. Desired Knowledge/Skill Requirements: • Background in Power Electronics topologies and applications that implement Silicon Carbide, Gallium Nitride, or Silicon Devices • Excellent understanding of semiconductor non-idealities, losses, and loss modelling.
• High level circuit simulation/analysis, testing and debugging. • Demonstrated ability to investigate, design and develop power electronics hardware in a fast-paced environment. • Must be able to multitask while delivering excellent results in a multi-priority environment • Strong command of fundamental concepts such as thermal dynamics, controls, power conversion topologies, noise immunity and EMC. • Provide detailed written design theory and design documentation. • Verbal and technical language proficiency in English. • Provide detailed cost analysis versus performance gains. • Provide detailed design verification reports, MTBF, DFX, Life Cycle Performance. • Skilled using laboratory test & measurement equipment • Strong knowledge in power electronics simulations tools (PSPICE, Matlab / Simulink and others). • Strong understanding of schematics and PCB layout. • Strong background in control theory and signal processing. • General competency in all core fields (power conversion, electronics, electromagnetics, controls hardware, firmware and software). • Excellent problem definition and solving techniques as wel