Power Electronics Intern

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Mountain View, CA, USA
In-Office
30-30 Hourly
Internship
Greentech • Energy
The Role
The Power Electronics Intern will design and validate power electronic systems, collaborate with other engineering functions, and have ownership of the product from specification to manufacturing.
Summary Generated by Built In

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

Responsibilities

  • Create the best possible products by contributing to product level features, design, and vision by leveraging your experience and creativity
  • Detailed design of power electronic systems from 10W – 10kW, DC/DC converters, offline isolated power supplies, and inverters including the selection of topology, semiconductors, magnetics design, schematic design and layout, EMC and design of various safety aspects
  • Collaborate to create efficient verification and validation test plans for the individual components as well as the complete system
  • Bring up and testing of systems to validate functionality, optimize performance, and evaluate critical characteristics
  • Work across functions such as mechanical, thermal, reliability, and firmware engineering to optimize the product
  • Start-to-finish ownership of the power conversion system from specification through design, prototype, validation and manufacturing

Relevant Skills

  • Minimum B.S. student in Electrical Engineering with experience in power electronics design. M.S. or Ph.D. students with a power electronics focus are preferred. 
  •  Detailed understanding of active and passive component losses in power conversion and the various means to reduce/mitigate those losses
  • Experience of designing high efficiency and high density power converters with wide bandgap devices
  • Familiarity with various topologies (two-level, multilevel, soft switching, etc.) and ability to analyze, select, and design topologies best suited for a given application
  • Knowledge of sensor design to measure converter parameters in real time in a noisy environment 
  • Familiarity with magnetics design and specification, applications of various core materials for both power and filtering, knowledge of winding structure and optimization, and insulation strategies
  • EMC design and optimization. Understanding of EMC theory applied to both PCB layout as well as filter designs
  • Ability to design schematics and conduct layout design or review as it applies to power conversion
  • Strong lab skills with working knowledge of the tools and techniques for power conversion test and analysis (e.g., use of oscilloscopes, impedance analyzers, sources, and loads in an environment with both high voltages and currents, and high common-mode and differential-mode noise)

Helpful Skills

  • Working with high voltage, current, and power
  • Ability to simulate power converter based electrical systems and familiarity with the tools thereof
  • Familiarity with global safety and EMC certifications and building systems to pass the relevant codes
  • Previous work in the solar, energy storage, or EV/ EV Charging industries
  • Familiarity with embedded control and application and programming of microcontrollers
  • Understanding of mechanical and thermal considerations

Our DE&I Philosophy: Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Our Compensation Philosophy: Our goal is to ensure that all Lunar Energy employees are fairly compensated. Please note that the salary range information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position provided pursuant to the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act for California applicants. The salary range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is: $30 USD.

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package & benefits, will be at the company’s sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.

Top Skills

Dc/Dc Converters
Emc Design
Inverters
Magnetics Design
Pcb Layout
Power Electronics
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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
82 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Lunar Energy was founded to make energy cleaner, safer, and more reliable. We build products for home electrification to move the world towards 100% clean energy.

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