Job Description

Electrical Engineer

Who We Are:

We are driven by a passion to design and manufacture the highest quality grid-scale power converters available.  Rooted in this passion, we provide our customers with inverters and DC/DC converters from 250 kW to 6 MW.  EPC’s products are designed in house and manufactured in the USA.  Power electronics are the core technology behind decarbonization. With major growth sectors such as renewable energy, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging, EPC is growing fast.

What We Do:

EPC is located in the center of a high-tech commercial park in Poway, CA to meet the demands of its rapidly growing customer base.  We are focused on developing and manufacturing robust and reliable power conversion solutions to solve real-world customer problems, and doing it in a smaller, more powerful footprint than anything else available today.  We enjoy what we do, and we encourage a creative, healthy, and highly collaborative environment.  Our goal is to work together as a fun, creative, and professional team; learning from and encouraging one-another as we push the state of the art forward in power electronics.

The Role:

EPC Power is looking to add an electrical engineer to our engineering team. In this role you will work closely with experienced engineers on a variety of activities including circuit design, printed circuit board development and testing, cabinet wiring design and diagrams, inverter and component testing, and manufacturing support. After training and becoming familiar with EPC products, you will be an integral part of the electrical engineering team. You will have opportunities to contribute to new product design, customer requests, lab testing, PCB development and troubleshooting. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop, coordinate, and participate in board and equipment functional testing, wiring checkout, FAT, and end of line testing 
• Troubleshoot cabinet electrical issues ( < 208Vac ) and circuit board issues as needed
• Design test fixtures for PCBA and electrical assemblies
• Design and layout PCBs
• Participate in design development and validation activities
• Participate in documentation for manuals, processes, ECOs, and procedures
• Support production and customers on an as-needed basis, both directly and through our customer support team
• Support maintenance of wiring diagrams in SolidWorks Electrical for manufacturing and customer applications.  Drawings include cable harnesses, routing, cabinet interfaces, wiring connection specifications, and break out terminal blocks
• Actively work with manufacturing technicians to ensure design is properly implemented, and with test engineers to ensure design is fully tested
• Occasional travel may be required (<10%)

Requirements:

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
• Experience using typical lab equipment including oscilloscopes, multimeters, soldering stations, signal generators, DAQ
• 1-2 years experience in an engineering role
• Solid understanding of the fundamental concepts of electrical power and circuits
• Ability to work well within a team and clearly communicate technical progress and challenges
• Soldering and PCB rework skills
• Experience with PCB design software (Altium preferred)
• Experience with PCB schematic capture, layout, manufacturing, testing
• Hands on lab skills, prototyping, testing, cable harness fabrication, lab testing, board bringup
• Experience with circuit simulation (eg. LTSpice), NI/Labview, Python, MatLab/Simulink, and/or C programming
• Strong problem-solving skills

Preferred:

• Internship or lab experience
• Familiar with typical commercial and industrial cabinet wiring, documentation, wiring harnesses
• Able to understand, maintain, and improve company electrical drawing standards
• Experience with typical commercial and industrial electrical power (480Vac,3p), particularly in inverter applications
• Interested in power electronics

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental and vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance 
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement

COVID-19 considerations:

In order to ensure the safest environment possible for all team members during the COVID-19 pandemic, team members are provided hand sanitizer, gloves, face masks, alternative work schedules and whenever possible isolated work areas

EPC Power is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.