Power Engineer

Who We Are

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Role:

As a Power Engineer, you will be a key member of the hardware team. Both a technologist and a leader, the successful candidate will work across disciplines to assure power supply designs meet the power, thermal, and safety requirements of the system specification. The Power Design Engineer will lead the design of DC-DC switching power supplies, LDO and help product to do the component selection.

The ideal candidate will be a leader by example, promoting positive company culture and fostering transparency throughout the organization. This person approaches problems with insight and creativity in equal measure, never accepting solutions that compromise values or quality as an option. They treat everyone as a peer and understand that listening is as imperative to effective communication as speaking.

You will work closely with Motive's EE engineering, RF engineering, Reliability engineering, and manufacturing teams to understand the system requirements and contribute or lead the specification, design, and debugging of complex Automotive and Camera products.

As a Power Engineer, you will have an amazing opportunity to shape the way we develop and test our products. We are looking for candidates with a solid power background and hands-on experience in testing complex systems to join our team. This role is ideal for an engineer who is a strong, independent worker ready to take on new challenges, and eager to work with cutting edge technology.

What You'll Do:

• Architecture Lead and contribute to power delivery system architecture and specifications.
• Define and take ownership of power test plans and strategies
• Design, analysis, and simulation of high current and low noise power delivery circuits.
• Work with other engineers on debugging contributes to system bring up, debug, and validation in the lab.
• Verification Write and execute test and DVT plans.
• Write clear and organized test reports
• Design, operate, and maintain lab space, and derive technical specifications based on product level requirements
• Validate designs through functional verification, signal characterization, power modeling/test, and system coexistence testing
• Strive for engineering excellence within the team
• Provide technical documents for power RFQ package and review vendor's technical proposals, capabilities, and development processes for the power project team's vendor selection and program award process.
• Handle projects of isolated and non-isolated AC/DC, DC/DC, solar, IOT, charger etc.
• Schematic drawing, layout review, BOM, etc.
• Power supply validations: efficiency, thermal, stress, ripple, line/load transient etc.
• Solving issues debugging burn in, EMI (CISPER32 and CISPER25), acoustic noise, ESD, surge, thermal issue, etc.
• Improving performance: efficiency, thermal, space, noise, cost, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of Li-ion battery operation and performance including charging, discharging, safety, impedance, aging, cycle life, temperature effects, failure modes, handling and pack assembly methods, processes, and procedures
• Manage the design of experiments (DOE) with vendors if there are any technical issues or shortcomings with the battery performance or reliability.
• Define the engineering requirement for the battery based on the product definitions and requirements.
• Technical drive and curiosity for understanding all aspects of battery cell and pack design and manufacturing

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years experience in Power Supply Design for related products, such as automotive, wearable device, IoT products.
• Experience in conducting power and battery related tests, and troubleshooting including EMI, thermal, signal integrity analysis. Debugging ESD, ISO7637, ISO 16750-2 is a plus.
• Familiar with both battery cell and pack design such as power topology fly-back, half-bridge. Lithium battery design.
• Ability to conduct power architecture design, including power supply layout, thermal etc.
• Great teamwork attitude and communication skills to work with internal and external (CMs) partners.
• Passionate about hands-on experiences on projects.
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