Power Supply Design Engineer

For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we’ll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we're leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!

We’re on the hunt for a Power Supply Design Engineer on our Satellite systems team at our Montreal office.

As the leading global independent commercial supplier of antennas, payloads, and electronics for communication and radar satellites, our team has successfully contributed to hundreds of missions in the past 60 years. With an extensive heritage in a wide range of solutions delivered to customers globally, our Satellite Systems team continues to grow and evolve on the ground and in the stars.

We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

Role

Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary engineering team to develop state-of-the-art spacecraft equipment DC power supplies and associated regulator circuitry using PCB technology. Oversee detailed designs and documentation such as analysis, parts lists, schematics, assembly drawings and test procedures.

Tasks

The incumbent will be a leader to a team of designers for various related tasks such as:

• Contributing to R&D programs and supporting the proposal generation process are also assignments within this position.
• Design Simulations (LTSpice preferred)
• Failure Mode (FMECA) and Worst Case Analysis (WCA).
• Prepare detailed review material such as Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR).
• Conceptual designs
• Create compliance tables along with predictions of power supply performance characteristics using LTSpice or PSpice.
• PCB layouts
• BOMs and Assembly drawings
• Support to System Engineering trade-offs
• Develop automated testing concepts for high volume of more than 30 EPCs per day
• Detailed EPC Electrical designs
• Provide support for the manufacturing activity for both the build and electrical testing activities.
• Detailed design documentation

Qualifications Required

Candidates should have between 5 to 10 years of experience in the field of advanced high frequency, high efficiency Full Bridge power supply designs.

• Design of discrete low cost high performance isolated gate drive circuits for Mosfets
• High frequency power supply designs above 200 kHz (up to 1 MHz desired)
• B.Sc or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, M.Sc preferred.
• Strong hands-on laboratory experience measuring performance and debug of designs
• Design of Ultra-high efficiency EPCs using Synchronous Rectifier Mosfets (eGaN preferred)
• Additional power industry design courses
• Use of Radiation hardened Mosfets (eGaN preferred)
• Familiarity with designing to spacecraft requirements (radiation, high reliability)
• Leading a team of less experienced engineers as well as performing detailed designs
• Strong teamwork capabilities, along with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently.

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Comments/Special Considerations

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

Benefits Statement

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.

Equal Opportunity Statement

MDA is an equal opportunity employer prizing diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please feel free to notify us.

COVID Statement

COVID-19 Hiring Update: Strengthening our workforce is more important than ever to meet our customers’ mission-critical needs. We are continuing to hire many talented people, and we are closely monitoring COVID-19 to ensure safe hiring practices are used. This includes limiting onsite candidate interviews and prioritizing video interviews.

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