Schneider Electric's Solar & Storage team is seeking a highly motivated Power Electronics and Controls Specialist with strong expertise in the development of solar, battery energy storage, EV charging, and grid-interactive power conversion systems.

CA$130,000.00 yearly

Full-time

What you'll be doing

- Lead the design and development of power converter hardware for solar, battery energy storage, EV charging, and microgrid applications.
- Evaluate and perform trade‑off studies among various power conversion topologies and system architectures.
- Develop mathematical models, simulations, and control algorithms for power converters.
- Design, implement, and validate advanced digital control firmware for power conversion systems.
- Lead rapid product development activities from concept through prototyping, verification, validation, certification, and production release.
- Perform hands‑on debugging, testing, characterization, and optimization of power electronics hardware.
- Design and validate high‑power and low‑voltage control electronics including schematic capture, PCB design reviews, hardware bring‑up, and troubleshooting.
- Drive EMI/EMC compliance activities including design reviews, mitigation techniques, troubleshooting, and regulatory certification support.
- Develop and validate thermal models, thermal derating strategies, cooling solutions, and performance improvements for high‑power converters.
- Work closely with Mechanical and Thermal Engineering teams to optimize product packaging, cooling architecture, reliability, manufacturability, safety, and regulatory compliance.
- Support compliance validation and certification activities including UL, ULSB, IEEE, CSA, and related regulatory requirements.
- Lead abnormal operation and fault‑testing activities, including UL abnormal tests, grid support functions, ride‑through testing, and protection verification.
- Develop and validate protection schemes for power converters, battery systems, and energy management systems.
- Support Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Test (DFT), and product industrialization activities.
- Participate in root‑cause investigations, technical risk assessments, FMEA activities, and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Stay current with emerging power semiconductor technologies, converter topologies, controls techniques,



and energy storage trends to guide future product development.
- Collaborate closely with systems, firmware, manufacturing, testing, quality, sourcing, certification, thermal, and mechanical engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.

What you bring

- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Controls Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant industry experience; or PhD with 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Solid background in power electronics and digital control systems.
- Experience developing commercial power electronic products from concept through certification and production release.
- Experience in both hardware design and control firmware development.
- Deep understanding of power electronics topologies and digital control techniques.
- Proficiency with modeling and simulation tools, including MATLAB/Simulink and related engineering analysis tools.
- Experience with power electronics hardware development, including schematic design, PCB development, hardware validation, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of EMI/EMC design practices and compliance testing.
- Experience developing solar, energy storage, EV charging, UPS, renewable energy, or grid‑interactive power conversion products (optional).
- Experience supporting product certification activities and industry standards (UL, IEEE, CSA, or similar).
- Experience developing thermal solutions and reliability improvements for high‑power electronic systems.
- Experience supporting product industrialization activities, including DFM, DFA, and DFT.

Benefits

We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: insurance coverage for health, inclusive of medical, dental, vision, basic life, accident, and disability insurance; telemedicine program; paid family leaves; parental and care leave; employee assistant program with mental, family, and legal counselling and flexible work arrangements.





We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: base salary; incentive plans; employee share ownership plan; retirement plan with employer pension match.

We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to the Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.

We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program (including service anniversary), sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.

We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, and initiatives that support youth education.

We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us. It is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization.

We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

How we support diversity and inclusion

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.

Pay information

Expected pay range is CAD $, - CAD $, per year. This pay range includes base pay and short‑term incentives. For Ontario applicants, this posting complies with provincial law which does not require disclosure of the pay range. Inquiries regarding the pay range can be directed to the recruiting / hiring manager.

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