Senior Engineer I, Electronics Hardware Design
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 6, 2026. Schneider Electric scores B on the Alion truth index.
Hands-on hardware engineer responsible for designing, validating, and industrializing power-electronics subsystems for residential and light-commercial solar energy storage products.
Key Responsibilities
- Design inverter, bidirectional DC-DC, auxiliary power, sensing, isolation, gate-drive, and protection circuits.
- Perform schematic design, calculations, simulation, component selection, derating, worst-case, SOA, loss, and thermal analysis.
- Support PCB layout for high-power, high-voltage, isolation, creepage/clearance, signal integrity, and EMC requirements.
- Own hands-on debug of critical hardware issues during board bring-up and system integration; perform structured RCA, implement corrective actions, and verify closure.
- Create design documentation and support design reviews, DFMEA, DFM/DFA/DFT, prototype builds, certification, and production launch.
- Collaborate with systems, firmware, mechanical, validation, compliance, quality, sourcing, suppliers, and manufacturing teams.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with ESS, grid-forming or grid-following inverters.
- Exposure to UL /IEC standards on grid compliance, EMC, safety, surge, and environmental & associated testing.
Success in This Role
- Robust hardware delivery against performance, efficiency, thermal, cost, reliability, and schedule targets.
- Effective bring-up, rapid closure of critical hardware issues through robust RCA, cost reduction and readiness for compliance and manufacturing.
7+ years of experience and Bachelor’s or master’s degree or Phd in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Power Electronics, Energy Systems, or related discipline from a reputed institute (IITs, NITs, IISc, top global universities, or equivalent)...
- Experience in grid-tied inverters, battery energy storage, bidirectional converters, PFC, or similar power-conversion products.
- Strong knowledge of Si/SiC devices, gate drivers, magnetics, capacitors, sensing, protection, isolation, and thermal design.
- Hands-on use of oscilloscopes, power analyzers, thermal equipment, and laboratory safety practices.
- Working knowledge of LTspice/PSpice, PLECS/PSIM, MATLAB/Simulink, and Cadence OrCAD/Allegro or Altium.
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