Hinduja Tech Limited · 20 hours ago
Chief Engineer-Power Electronics
Farmington, MI
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
8+ years expHinduja Tech Limited is seeking a Chief Engineer who will deliver embedded power electronics solutions for various applications. This role combines deep technical authority with program, customer, and commercial leadership, focusing on safety-critical electrified systems.
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Responsibilities
Define and own system-level architectures for power electronics platforms, including traction inverters and motor drives, on-board chargers (single and three-phase AC/DC with isolated DC/DC stages), HV/LV DC/DC converters (isolated and non-isolated, unidirectional and bidirectional)
Act as final technical decision authority for topology selection, voltage/current class definition, derating philosophy, protection concepts, and performance limits
Govern architecture trade-offs across efficiency, power density, cost, reliability, manufacturability, and scalability
Lead and approve deep technical design reviews at architecture, schematic, layout, and system-integration levels
Provide authority over digital control architectures for converters and motor drives
Define control partitioning across MCU, DSP, FPGA, and safety processors, including timing, latency, redundancy, and diagnostic coverage
Provide senior technical guidance on sensing architectures, estimator robustness, and real-world non-idealities (offsets, delays, saturation, quantization)
Own system-level magnetics strategy, including inductors, transformers, common-mode chokes, and EMI filtering networks
Guide capacitor technology selection (film, ceramic, electrolytic), ripple current limits, DC bias effects, and lifetime considerations
Lead and guide electrical-mechanical co-design, including packaging constraints, vibration, isolation strategy, creepage/clearance, and thermal paths
Act as senior technical authority for functional safety and EMC, guiding architecture and verification in accordance with: ISO 26262, IEC 61508, CISPR 25 and OEM EMC standards, High-voltage insulation and isolation requirements
Provide senior technical guidance on motor-drive control strategies, including field-oriented control (FOC), field-weakening, overmodulation, and torque ripple / NVH mitigation approaches
Support development and review of control and protection behaviors for abnormal operation and fault handling, including safe torque response and degraded operation strategies
Ensure motor-drive controls are consistent with hardware constraints (DC bus limits, current sensing, switching behavior, thermal limits), and with EMC and functional safety objectives
Guide validation planning and correlation for drive performance across speed/torque range, including efficiency, thermal derating behavior, and robustness to parameter variation
Define system-level safety concepts, fault reactions, and diagnostic strategies rather than component-level compliance only
Lead EMC architecture decisions, correlation strategies, and root-cause resolution of emissions and susceptibility issues
Lead, define, set direction for multi-domain modelling and simulation (electrical, control, thermal, magnetic, EMC) with demonstrated correlation to hardware
Define validation philosophies and test strategies, including worst-case and derating analysis, accelerated life and robustness testing, fault injection and abnormal operation
Oversee validation from early prototypes through production-intent hardware and sector qualification for inverters, OBC, and DC/DC platforms
Provide senior responsibility for safe operation of high-voltage, high-power laboratories, including MW-class systems
Define test infrastructure requirements, protection schemes, and safe operating procedures
Interpret test data at system level, identifying cross-domain root causes beyond instrumentation artifacts
Provide technical governance across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring delivery to performance, cost, timing, and margin objectives
Support and shape RFQs, technical proposals, scope definition, cost estimation, and technical risk assessment
Act as senior technical escalation points for customers and internal stakeholders
Build and maintain trusted senior-level technical relationships with OEMs, Tier-1s, and strategic partners
Identify, develop, and institutionalize new technical capabilities, standards, and reference architectures aligned with long-term business strategy
Influence R&D investment direction and technology roadmaps across power electronics, packaging, and control
Ensure knowledge capture, reuse, and consistency across programs
Mentor Principal, Senior, and early-career engineers, raising technical rigor and engineering judgment
Act as a role model for engineering excellence, professionalism, and safety discipline
Foster a collaborative, high-performance, multi-disciplinary engineering culture
Qualification
Required
Deep, hands-on experience delivering high-power, high-voltage power electronics systems (inverters, OBC, DC/DC, AC/DC) from concept through validation and production-intent hardware
Expert knowledge of power semiconductor devices (SiC, IGBT, GaN), including SOA, short-circuit behaviour, dv/dt and di/dt limits, aging mechanisms, and mission-profile-based lifetime modelling
Authority in converter and charger architectures, including PFC stages, isolated DC/DC topologies (LLC, PSFB, DAB), and multiphase DC/DC systems
Strong expertise in EMC-aware design, isolation systems, and functional safety allocation at system level
Demonstrated success correlating simulation, bench testing, and vehicle/system-level results
Proven record of planning, selling, leading, and delivering large, multi-disciplinary programs in safety-critical sectors
Familiarity with motor-drive control concepts across multiple machine types (e.g., IPM/SPM, IM/ASM, SR), including FOC, field-weakening, overmodulation, NVH/torque ripple mitigation, and protection/fault handling
Understanding of practical implementation constraints for motor drives, including sensing limitations, sampling and delay effects, inverter nonlinearities, and real-world commissioning considerations
Strong customer-facing presence with the ability to influence technical and commercial outcomes
Structured, methodical approach to engineering decisions, risk management, and complex problem solving
Bachelor's degree (BS) with typically 12+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree (MS) with typically 8+ years of relevant experience, or Doctorate (PhD) with typically 5+ years of relevant industry experience
In all cases, candidates must demonstrate Chief-level technical authority, system ownership, and cross-program influence
Company
Hinduja Tech Limited
Hinduja Tech (HT), part of the multi-billion-dollar global business conglomerate, Hinduja Group, provides product and digital engineering solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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