DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented Power Electronics R&T Engineer to join our team in Columbus, IN .

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Investigate and Resolve Issues: You will identify and troubleshoot electronic hardware problems, understand their root causes, and recommend effective solutions, ensuring smooth operations.
• Enhance Development Processes: By applying and supporting the improvement of electronic hardware development processes and tools, you will contribute to more efficient and reliable product development.
• Apply Advanced Design Methods: Utilizing design methods such as worst case analysis, circuit simulation, DFMEA/PFMEA, and Fault Tree Analysis, you will ensure robust and high-quality hardware designs.
• Collaborate with Suppliers: You will work closely with electronic suppliers to gather input and deliver prototype hardware, facilitating seamless integration with application engineering teams.
• Make Informed Decisions: Your decisions regarding hardware requirements and validation tests will directly impact unit cost, functionality, and prototype delivery, optimizing overall project outcomes.
• Own Problem Resolution: You will take ownership of resolving moderately complex issues, enhancing your technical expertise and contributing to the reliability of components, products, and systems.
• Execute and Improve Processes: Independently executing established work processes while continuously developing your knowledge will help improve systems and processes, driving innovation and efficiency.
• Contribute to Team Goals: By effectively contributing to team objectives and influencing your work group, you will foster a collaborative environment and support the overall success of the team.

• Design and Application of Mechatronics Systems - Specifies electronic hardware and interconnections that measure and control systems; applies electronic hardware and interconnections in Cummins' products.
• Electrical Design of Electrical Systems - Specifies components for electronic controllers; applies electronic controllers; creates electrical systems, or architecture concepts through specific knowledge of electrified (or electrical-based) systems to ensure a system design that adheres to both Cummins' and customer expectations.
• Mechanical Design of Electrical Systems - Creates electrical system or electronics-based design or architecture concepts through specific knowledge of electrified (or electrical-based) systems to ensure a system design that adheres to both Cummins and customer expectations.
• Product Failure Mode Avoidance - Mitigates potential product failure modes, by identifying interfaces, functions, functional requirements, interactions, control factors, noise factors, and prioritized potential failure modes and potential failure causes for the system of interest to effectively and efficiently improve the reliability of Cummins' products.
• Product Function Modeling, Simulation and Analysis - Impacts product design decisions through the utilization and/or interpretation of computational tools and methods that predict the capability of a product's function relative to its system, sub-system and/or component level requirements.
• Product Problem Solving - Solves product problems using a process that protects the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements robust, data-based solutions; and identifies the systemic root causes and recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
• Product Verification and Validation Management - Develops product systems validation plans from a variety of inputs to identify failure modes, while managing product risk and relative priority; negotiates product requirements against capability to guide project scope; evaluates analytical, simulation and physical test results to verify product capability and validate requirements; assesses legacy versus proposed system solution capabilities and produces recommendations with technical documentation to support product decisions.
• System Requirements Engineering - Uses appropriate methods and tools to translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements to which designs are developed; establishes acceptance criteria for the system of interest through analysis, allocation and negotiation; tracks the status of requirements throughout the system lifecycle; assesses the impact of changes to system requirements on project scope, schedule, and resources; creates and maintains information linkages to related artifacts.
• Applies Principles of Statistical Methods - Analyzes technical data using descriptive statistics, probability distributions, graphical analysis, and statistical inference (population and sample, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing); models relationships between response and independent variables using analysis of variance, regression, and design of experiments to make rigorous, data-based decisions.
• Cross-Functional Design Integration - Translates the value package requirements that include the voices of many stakeholders into virtual designs, and communicates the capability of the design through an approved cross-functional design review.
• Systems Thinking - Defines the system of interest by drawing the boundaries, identifying its context within its environment, its interfaces, and that it has a lifecycle to aid in planning the problem statement, scope and deliverables ; analyzes linkages and interactions between elements that comprise the system of interest by using appropriate methods, models and integration of outcomes to understand the system, predict its behavior and devise modifications to it in order to produce the desired effects.
• Technical Documentation - Documents information based on knowledge gained as part of technical function activities; communicates to stakeholders with the goal of enabling improved technical productivity and effective knowledge transfer to others who were not originally part of the initial learning.
• Product Development Execution, Monitoring and Control - Plans, schedules, coordinates and executes the activities involved in developing a product to a respectively aligned hierarchy of requirements and technical profiles; monitors and communicates across functional boundaries to meet project resource and quality expectations; ensures product capability meets or exceeds expectations and takes mitigating actions when project risks are higher than expected; understands the full product life cycle process and stakeholders.

• College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.
• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

• Entry level/Early career professional.
• Preferred candidates would have relevant experience working in either a temporary student employment environment (intern, co-op, or other extracurricular team activities) or as an early career professional in a relevant technical discipline area.
• Knowledge of MS Office tools is also preferred

1. Assist power electronics and motor design and testing working with control engineers and technicians at our Columbus, IN R&T facility.
2. Help lead and execute the planning, set up, testing, troubleshooting, validating, and documenting reports for various power converters in hybrid and/or electrified powertrain, battery energy storage, and wireless charging applications.
3. Proactively collaborate with cross-functional teams for successful planning and on-time delivery of testing, reporting, and hand offs.
4. Help validate simulation and control models using hardware experiments and test data.
5. Champion health, safety, and environmental standards.

1. Knowledge in power electronics: theory, power electronic components and their characteristics, topologies.
2. Understanding of vehicle electrification systems, both hybrids and battery EVs.
3. Familiar with electronic measurement tools, e.g., oscilloscopes, power analyzers, LCR meters, and hi-pot testers.
4. Experience in electronic hardware/software lab testing.
5. Hands-on experience with electronics.
6. Proficiency in data analysis with Excel, Python, etc.
7. Familiar with Matlab/Simulink.
8. Experience with CANbus and Ethernet data links is a plus.
9. PCB design skills are preferred.