Electrification Controls Engineer

Electrification Controls Engineer Responsibilities

We seek a Electrification Controls Engineer based out of our office at 2151 East Lincoln Road, Kokomo, IN 46902. Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work from the aforementioned address and from home. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the aforementioned address. Note, this position requires domestic and/or international travel up to 10% of the time.

Develop innovative controls solutions in traction application electric machine and power electronics controls for real-world industry problems while balancing timing, technical, and cost constraints;
Apply understanding of the steps and effort involved to mature new controls solutions from the concept phase through to production ready implementation;
Use objective and measurable metrics to analyze multiple potential controls solutions and to determine the best solution to achieve given controls objectives;
Communicate controls features at either a conceptual level or at a technically detailed level;
Support the Borg Warner product development team with technical design analysis, trade‑off studies, design reviews, and customer communications;
Serve as the focal point for machine controls design technical discussions with cross‑competency teams, management, and customers;
Communicate existing and future controls capabilities and limitations to cross‑competency teams, management, and customers;
Assist in quoting engineering design and development efforts for new business opportunities, including the proper decomposition, allocation, and documentation of controls requirements;
Serve as a representative for Borg Warner electrification controls at technical conferences;
Drive quality controls software architecture and implementation concepts;
Determine, document, and share best practice techniques and procedures and apply them to analysis, design, and experimental testing.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering or Mechanical Engineering and 24 months of experience in job offered or related position developing and implementing electric machine and power electronics controls.

Required experience must include:
Experience with vector control, direct torque control, discrete domain control system analysis and implementation;
Experience using various PWM techniques and Observer Design Theory;
Experience with MATLAB/Simulink modeling of electric machines, as well as, power electronics and their controls;
Experience with physics‑based modeling of electric machines and power electronics;
Experience with electric machine and power electronics loss mechanisms;
Experience applying the fundamentals of operation for surface and interior permanent magnet synchronous machines, AC induction machines, wound field synchronous machines, and power semiconductor devices (IGBT, MOSFET);
Experience characterizing new electric machine designs, including experimental identification of flux‑linkages, resistances, inductances, optimum operating points, and losses. Note, this position requires domestic and/or international travel up to 10% of the time.

• Employer:
  
  Borg Warner Noblesville LLC.
• Job Site: 2151
  
  E. Lincoln Road, Kokomo, IN 46902.
• 40 hours per week.
• Hybrid position: work from office and home.
• Travel up to 10% of the time.