General Motors
Power Electronics Hardware Design Lead
Warren, Michigan, United States of America · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- Eight or more years required; ten or more years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, power electronics, or a related discipline; a Master’s degree or advanced technical training is preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role, now or in the future.
About the job
Leads hands-on design, validation, release, and launch support for high-voltage power electronics used in electrified vehicles.
What you'll do
- Translate system requirements into converter architectures and verifiable hardware designs; lead technical decisions from concept through production.
- Direct analyses, design reviews, reliability and risk activities, validation, and root-cause investigations.
- Coordinate suppliers and cross-functional teams, communicate technical risks, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, power electronics, or a related discipline.
- Eight or more years of hands-on experience designing and industrializing, validating, or launching automotive high-voltage power converter products or related electrified-vehicle systems.
- Hands-on experience with magnetics, power switches and gate drives, high-voltage/high-current PCB design, filters and EMI/EMC mitigation, and electrical/thermal analysis.
- Experience with laboratory measurement, hardware debugging, simulation-to-test correlation, structured root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or advanced technical training in electrical engineering or power electronics.
- Experience with high-power converter topologies or silicon-carbide and other high-speed switching technologies.
Tools
LTspice, PSpice, MATLAB/Simulink, FEM, Mentor Graphics, Altium, ISO 26262:2018, PRTS
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