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Electrical Test Engineer

EPC Power Corp.

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Poway, CA
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Job Description

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Job Overview:

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 manufacturing and be developing a transition to automation on the manufacturing floor, database generation/management, manufacturing test development, and inverter and component testing. After training and becoming familiar with EPC products, you will be an integral part of the engineering test team. You will have opportunities to contribute to new product development, customer requests, engineering testing, engineering/manufacturing automation and troubleshooting. 


Responsibilities:

  • Leading a transition to a fully automated production test process

  • Creating effective database for all production test results

  • Generating automated test reports containing relevant test results

  • Working to create a comprehensive power test application that will report relevant test data & calibration of voltage/currents of power inverters

  • Perform engineering testing of damaged production products resulting in root cause analysis

  • Work with a team of engineers to improve production test procedures to create a robust test process

  • Support repair of maintenance of test equipment as needed


Requirements:

  • B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

  • 2 years of experience using NI LabVIEW software

  • Experience using lab equipment - oscilloscopes, DMM, function generators, power supplies, DAQ

  • PCB troubleshooting experience

  • AutoCAD Electrical experience

  • 1-2 years experience in an engineering role

  • Hands on experience testing electrical systems

  • Experience creating and analyzing database results

Preferred:

  • Internship experience

  • Previous experience working in a lab environment

  • Experience creating scripts via Python 

  • Interest in working with power electronics

  • Experience with electrical wiring diagrams/circuits

  • Familiarity with NI TestStand

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.