Sr. Hardware Engineer

Virbhu India Pvt Ltd, a leading solid state power conversion company located at Vadodara (Gujarat) and Bangalore (Whitefield) (Karnataka). A wholly owned subsidiary of AK Power Solutions ( www.akpowers.com ) (USA), operating in the field of power electronics, has an immediate opening for a Sr. Hardware Engineer to lead development of Mega Watt scale converters using SiC devices and IGBT devise for DC fast Charging of trucks and buses , solar power generation , Battery energy storage systems, electrolytic deposition , electrolyzes to produce Hydrogen fuel and other applications .

The US parent company , AK power Solutions sells IPM (integrated power modules) for fast DC charging currently in USA and is led by an IIT graduate. In addition to AK, he also leads VTC , the largest power transformer manufacturer in USA.

Work Location : Bangalore Whitefield.

This role has to frequently travel to Vadodara Plant.

Responsibilities :

• Developing embedded systems for medium to high Power Electronic Converters
• Selection of Microcontroller, Digital Signal Processor / Controllers, FPGAs as per need
• Complete Hardware Design & Development of the embedded boards
• Perform testing, troubleshooting, validation (at board and system level).
• Responsible for schematics captures, PCB layout design and check, BOM creation and debugging and testing.
• Create fluent technical documentation including product specifications, assembly instructions, test procedures, etc.
• Work closely with firmware, software, and mechanical team to achieve common goals.
• Participate in product design reviews, own hardware issues to provide solutions either in design or at production.
• Participate in lab development, test automation and productivity improvement initiatives Will be responsible for hardware design, bring up, certification and production release.
• Knowledge in microcontrollers and driver development for embedded peripherals

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