XP Power

Electronics Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for the complete electronic design lifecycle, including schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, verification, and transfer to manufacturing
  • Integrate AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies into larger electronic systems, ensuring correct functionality, performance, and compliance
  • Define power architectures, including distribution, protection, grounding, and system interfacing
  • Integrate and validate analogue control and monitoring signals, including voltage and current setpoints, feedback loops, sensing circuits, and signal conditioning
  • Interface with digital control and communication systems for power management, monitoring, and coordination
  • Implement and support communication via industry-standard protocols such as PMBus, CANopen, MODbus, and SCPI
  • Perform system-level analysis, including efficiency, stability, thermal performance, and fault conditions
  • Design schematics and support PCB layout activities, including reviews for signal integrity, EMC, thermal performance, and manufacturability
  • Conduct prototype bring‑up, system integration, and debugging, including fault finding down to component level
  • Plan and support Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing, including pre‑compliance validation and mitigation of issues
  • Apply thermal design principles to ensure reliable system operation across operating conditions
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation including system specifications, interface definitions, design records, and test procedures
  • Support manufacturing introduction, including design for manufacture (DFM), test, and production issue resolution
  • Support field issue resolution, including root cause analysis and corrective actions
  • Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams including mechanical, firmware, systems, and manufacturing engineers
  • Quality Management - look for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.

Required Technical Skills and Experience

  • Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline
  • Strong background in analogue and digital electronics
  • Experience integrating AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies into system-level applications
  • Proven experience delivering designs across the full product lifecycle from concept through to manufacturing
  • Practical understanding of analogue signal interfacing, including voltage and current control, measurement, scaling, and noise mitigation
  • Experience working with digital control signals (e.g. TTL/logic-level I/O) and communication interfaces
  • Working knowledge of industry communication protocols such as PMBus, CANopen, MODbus, and SCPI for configuration, monitoring, and control
  • Understanding of power conversion principles and common topologies sufficient to support integration and troubleshooting
  • Knowledge of power distribution, grounding, and protection strategies
  • Experience with EMC principles, testing, and mitigation techniques
  • Understanding of thermal management and system-level heat dissipation
  • Strong fault‑finding and troubleshooting skills at component level
  • Proficiency with laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power analysers, electronic loads, and spectrum analysers

Desirable / Bonus Skills

  • Knowledge of digital systems and control techniques (e.g. closed-loop control, PID concepts)
  • Experience with embedded systems or firmware-controlled power systems
  • Familiarity with system-level monitoring, diagnostics, and telemetry architectures
  • Experience with product certification and compliance (e.g. CE, UL, IEC standards)

Personal Attributes

  • Analytical and systems-oriented approach to engineering challenges
  • Strong attention to detail with a practical, hands-on mindset
  • Able to work independently while contributing effectively within a team
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
  • Planning/Organizing - prioritize and plan work activities; use time efficiently; set goals and objectives; develop realistic action plans.
  • Professionalism - approach others in a tactful manner; react well under pressure; treat others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accept responsibility for own actions; follow through on commitments.