Collins - Associate Director - Power Electronics

Key responsibilities :

- Own the technical roadmap and system architecture for motor drive electronics, including inverters, motor control hardware, gate drive circuitry, protection, sensing, and associated embedded control interfaces.

- Lead end to end development from concept, simulation, and prototyping through validation, certification, and production ramp for motor drive and power conversion platforms.

- Define and enforce engineering standards, design guidelines, and best practices for power electronics, EMC/EMI, safety, reliability, and derating across programs.

- Provide technical direction and mentorship to senior engineers and specialists in power electronics, motor control, and embedded systems, ensuring rigorous design reviews and problem's olving.

- Collaborate with mechanical, systems, firmware, and manufacturing teams to optimize complete electric drive systems, including thermal management, packaging, and manufacturability.

- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for complex field and test issues in motor drives and related electronics, using structured failure analysis and reliability methods.

- Evaluate and introduce advanced technologies such as wide bandgap devices (SiC/GaN), new topologies, and high's peed motors to improve efficiency, power density, and cost.

- Support make/buy decisions, supplier selection, and technical alignment with key semiconductor, magnetics, and motor vendors.

- Contribute to IP strategy through invention disclosure, patents, and publications in the motor drive and power electronics domain.

- Technical chief for an engineering group (and/or multiple project teams) delivering motor drive electronics to schedule, cost, and quality targets, with clear KPIs and accountability.

- Partner with product management and business leadership to translate product requirements into technical roadmaps, estimates, and resourcing plans.

- Champion a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement, including deployment of design reviews, FMEAs, DFM,DFT and lessons learned.

- Represent the motor drive electronics function in executive reviews, customer meetings, and audits as the domain expert and technical authority.

- Strong experience with simulations and modelling tools (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, SPICE tools) and interpreting lab results to correlate with models.

Required qualifications :

- Master's degree or PhD in ECE / EEE (preferred focus on Power Electronics, Drives, or Controls); exceptional bachelor's candidates ( ECE/EEE) with strong experience may be considered.

- Typically 20 + years of industry experience in power electronics and motor drives preferably in Aerospace.

Understanding of complete Product Development Cycle :

i. Requirements

ii. Design

iii. Development

iv. Integration

v. Qualification

- Good knowledge of standards/process such as DO-254 and DO-160

- Solid communication, writing skills and teaming skills are a must.