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Micropac Industries Incorporated - Electrical Power Applications Engineer

Job Details

Job Location

Micropac Industries Incorporated - 1655 - Garland, TX

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

4 Year Degree

Job Shift

Day

Job Description

Title: Electrical Power Applications Engineer

Position Reports to: VP of Engineering --- VP Microelectronics Business Unit

Company Description

Micropac Industries, Inc. is accelerating the pace of innovation to meet new mission requirements for optoelectronic and microelectronic innovation, design, and packaging for space, military, medical, and industrial markets. We employ focused initiative to drive cost, performance, time-to-market and reliability to meet mission requirements. As a member of the Micropac team you will have the opportunity to learn, grow and create exciting solutions for mission critical applications. You will find Micropac products supporting NASA missions on Mars to oil and gas applications 5,000 feet underground. Customers use our products when failure is not an option. At Micropac, our core values include servant leadership, teamwork, learning and a continuous improvement culture.

See http://www.micropac.com for additional information

About the Job

Micropac is looking for an Electrical Power Applications Engineer (EPAE) with a strong technical background in power distribution, switching, regulation, and conversion within spacecraft, military vehicles, and high reliability industrial applications. Specific experience with space radiation effects, redundant power systems, and power system requirements definition is required. Experience in defining requirements and design for DC/DC converters, solid state power switching and overload protection is required. Experience with power levels from a few Watts to 10+ KW and voltages ranging from a few Volts to 480V are a plus. Experience with digitally managed and controlled power products is preferred. Experience through a complete design cycle including requirements definition, detailed design, requirements verification, and release to production is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

The ideal candidate can conduct workshops with customers, peers, and suppliers to define electrical power solutions from proposal to product offering. These responsibilities will include design tradeoff study, capture of customer requirements, critical review of proposed designs, mentor the design team, and provide oversight during design validation and qualification. Input to new product roadmaps and strategic planning is part of this job function. This position will require significant communication with customers, suppliers, and other stake holders with proficiency in this regard is a job requirement. The ability to prototype electrical power solutions in the laboratory and direct staff in these activities is required.

The EPAE will lead by example and work cross functionally to achieve the VP Microelectronics Business Unit’s product development goals.

What You'll Do:

• Engage with key customers, target markets and internal stakeholders to develop product development proposals.

• Provide hands on management and support of new product definition, development and release to market.

• Create MRDs (Market Requirement Documents) and kick-off new product development in support of product line roadmap.

• Prototype product for customer demonstration and production-ready power solutions.

• Engage stakeholders with technical discussions of product issues

• Travel 10%

  What You'll Need:

• 5+ years in a Chief Engineer or Applications Engineer role

• Strong communication abilities, written, material presentation, and oral

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across multiple functional organizations

• BSEE from an accredited institution

  Preferred Additional Qualifications:

• MSEE

• Spacecraft power architecture definition experience.

• Existing relationships within the aerospace, medical, and industrial markets

  Equal Opportunity Employer, Veterans, Disabled