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.
Work on hardware-based designs for new Keysight programmable power supplies.
About the role
This role involves hardware design for power electronics, focusing on developing new Keysight programmable power supplies. You will contribute to products ranging from multi-kilowatt switching supplies and AC sources to 30kW regenerative power solutions and AC grid emulators up to 1MW.
What you'll do
- Develop hardware-based designs for new programmable power supplies.
- Provide technical leadership on power-electronics subsystems.
- Mentor new college graduates as needed.
- Leverage existing solutions and develop from-scratch design concepts.
- Generate cost-effective, dense designs that meet safety, EMC, and quality metrics.
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, particularly for power supplies and regenerative grid technologies.
- 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.
Skills: power electronics, switching converter design, analog design, control systems, regenerative grid technologies
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, regenerative grid technologies
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.