R&D Power Electronics Expert Electrical Engineer Full Time - Budd Lake, NJ - US-NJ-Budd Lake, United States
$138,000 - $231,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 13 August 2026 by the employer — open 35 days.
About the role
This role involves hardware design for power electronics, contributing to Keysight's power supply solutions which range from multi-kilowatt switching supplies to AC grid emulators up to 1MW.
What you'll do
- Work on hardware-based designs for new programmable power supplies.
- Provide technical leadership on power-electronics subsystems.
- Mentor new college graduates.
- Leverage existing solutions and develop from-scratch design concepts.
What you'll need
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering.
- Ability to work daily on-site in Budd Lake, NJ.
- Direct design experience with power electronics and switching converter designs from 500W to 50kW.
- Ability to generate cost-effective, dense designs that meet safety, EMC, and internal quality metrics.
- Direct experience with board layout as it relates to switching converter designs.
- Strong analog design skills, including experience in both time and frequency domain measurements.
- Strong skill set in continuous and discrete signals and systems.
- Experience with both analog and digital control theory and design methods.
- Ability to model systems in Matlab and circuit simulator tools such as Saber, SPICE, or PLECS.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of experience in hardware design, particularly involving power supplies and electronic measurement devices.
- Experience with digital signal processing (DSP), ideally with HDL skills.
- Experience coding, simulating, testing, and debugging HDL designs.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Ability to collaborate across multiple design domains including firmware, gateware, analog and digital hardware interfaces.
Skills: power electronics, switching converter design, analog design, control systems, digital signal processing
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 57-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Conversion
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Open roles in category
53
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (53 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 53 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 35 | 1336 · 104 employers |
| Median days open | 35 d | 57 d (−22 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: power electronics, switching converter design, analog design, control systems, digital signal processing
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 7 open roles · median 30 d
- Renesas Electronics · 6 open roles · median 48 d
- Power Integrations · 4 open roles · median 47 d
- Analog Devices · 3 open roles · median 56 d
- Navitas Semiconductor · 3 open roles · median 22 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 122 d
How we counted: 53 open Power Electronics (Power Conversion) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.