The Electronics Simulation Engineer’s responsibilities are to take responsibility for creating electronics simulations within the business as well as supporting the Lead Simulation & Test Engineer in providing test plans/report, simulation plans/reports in and verification/validation plans/reports in accordance with the company’s test strategy. Ensuring that all test equipment requirements and resource needed to undertake the validation/verification is already within the company or has been budgeted.
Duties
To provide author validation & verification plans and reports with supporting simulation and test plans & reports that can used to certify ETA’s product.
Responsible for working in collaboration with the design and development engineers to ensure that products under development meet the requirements and specification.
Responsible for mathematical modelling and testing of products to validate and verify modelling and simulation results.
Plan and demonstrate correlation between models and real-life test results.
Responsible for organizing & planning their work loads and any direct reports.
Accountabilities
To perform tests and document test results to validate electronic models & simulations in alignment with the standard procedures, H&S, and test lab rules.
To plan, perform and/or direct technicians to build and validate new or modified test equipment as required.
To create appropriate methods, work instructions and Risk Assessment documentations.
Review standards associated with test procedures and align / adapt test methods accordingly.
Coordinate tests, equipment, and resource in test lab in alignment with the business-related priorities.
Ensure all test work reflects requirements as stated in test procedures.
Work on continuous improvement projects e.g. test equipment and process improvements.
Person Specification
Process driven with the ability to enhance, improve and develop processes as the business grows and looks to continuously improve
Exceptional attention to detail and capable of maintaining high standards even under pressure, produces accurate results
Passionate and driven to deliver value to the business
Technically strong with a commercial mindset
Problem solving and resourceful – focuses on cause, not symptom, proactive approach and can identify best use of resources to deliver value
Accountable – takes responsibility for outputs and actions
Constructively challenge – able to positively challenge the status quo to realise benefit
Qualifications
A degree in an appropriate Engineering discipline (preferably Masters)
Ideally chartered
Experience
Practical expertise in ideal PCB layout and contributions of layout parasitics and additional affects
Working with EMC/EMI learning both in practice and simulation with supporting knowledge
Proven experience within a drive system development environment or high-tech quality manufacturing environment
Proven ‘hands on’ experience of quantifying and reducing electronic losses in a system
Demonstrable evidence and experience of mathematical modelling
5 years or more experience of FEA and CFD analysis in Ansys, LT Spice or similar software.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge/Qualities
Good knowledge of component equivalent models incorporating parasitic losses at a system level as well as a solid understanding of the non-ideal characteristics of electronics components
Ability to discuss system stability and transfer functions with S-domain analysis and work across teams to produce viable solutions
Awareness in the analysis of rotating products at high and low speeds
Familiarity with National Instruments PXI Data Acquisition chassis, specifically NI PXIe chassis & cards.
Experience using Mathematical processing software, i.e. MATLAB for data analysis, processing, and presentation of results.
Ability to understand limitations of measurement equipment
Empathy with the mission, vision, values, and ethos of the company; Innovation, Sustainability, Efficiency
Resilience: ability to cope under pressure
Positive about change and continuous improvement
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