Wright Electric Inc. Senior Power Electrionics Packaging Engineer Ballston Spa, NY · Full time Company website

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Wright Electric Inc. (Wright) is a U.S.-based company developing innovative power technologies to support the global energy transition. Focused on aircraft electrification, lightweight power generation, and next-generation batteries, our solutions provide a revolutionary improvement in power- and energy-density for electric systems. Since 2016, Wright has worked with NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, and commercial partners to bring our innovations to life.

Wright Electric builds power systems behind the future of aerospace and defense — from 30 kW expeditionary generators to multi-megawatt airborne propulsion. Our work spans electric motors, next-generation batteries, power electronics, and complete power systems like DenseGen and Dynamo, all engineered for a step-change in power and energy density. Since 2016, we've earned the trust of some of the most demanding customers in the world, including AFSOC, the USMC, PACAF, USTRANSCOM, NASA, ARPA-E, the FAA, and U.S. Air Force programs. It's genuinely cutting-edge work.

We also move fast. Wright is an all-hands, high-ownership environment where the pace is quick and the problems are hard, and the people who thrive here are the ones who dig in and drive their work to the finish. At the same time, we know sustained great work depends on rest: we respect our team's personal time and protect the boundaries that keep people sharp, healthy, and here for the long haul.

As our Sr. Power Electronics Packaging Engineer, you’ll own the mechanical packaging design and release of all power electronics products, from concept through production. Working closely with power electronics, electrical, and systems engineers, you’ll turn component requirements into robust enclosure designs. That includes integrating HV DC link capacitors, busbars, power modules, sensors, filters, and PCBs, along with designing the electrical and mechanical interfaces that connect them. You’ll lead the analysis behind every design (GD&T, DFM/DFA, DFMEA, structural FEA, thermal and CFD) and own the drawings, BOMs, and release documentation. You’ll also stay hands-on through procurement, prototype and production builds, and root cause and corrective action work, so the designs hit cost, quality, timing, and performance targets.

What You’ll Do

• Own the packaging design and release of all power electronics products
• Work with power electronics engineers to identify the mechanical requirements and specifications of HV DC link capacitors, HV busbars, power modules, current sensors, power filters and PCBs and to build the CAD models into the enclosure
• Work with electric and power electronics engineers to identify, design, and build all electrical and mechanical interfaces with busbars, connectors and wire harness
• Conduct all necessary mechanical packaging and manufacturing analysis including GD&T, DFA/DFM, DFMEA, FEA for structural and stress, thermal and CFD analysis
• Create all engineering drawings, specifications, BOMs, design release and engineering change documentation and support program timing, cost, quality and performance targets
• Support the system engineers for all parts procurements, receiving inspection, and build/integration
• Support prototype and production builds, issue resolution, root cause investigations, and implementation of corrective actions at all component, subassembly, and assembly levels

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of direct industrial hands-on design experience in designing high-power, high-voltage power converters used in automotive or industrial products
• Strong understanding of mechanical design principles, packaging integration, materials, manufacturing processes, and assembly methods

Very experienced in power electronics packaging with considerations of thermal, HV insulation, EMC, manufacturing, environmental (sealing, vibration, fatigue), failure mode, lifetime, and cost.

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance
• Vision insurance