Manager, Product Development
Description
Job Summary:
Lead a product development team in Biel, Switzerland, delivering gate driver solutions from concept to series production, including circuit design/simulation, transformer development, and low/high-voltage testing, while coordinating across internal teams and external partners. Ideal for an electrical engineer with 5+ years’ experience, proven technical leadership, strong SPICE and lab skills, and high ownership.
Responsibilities:
- Lead of the product development team in Biel/Switzerland focusing on:
- Development of gate driver solutions from specification to series production following internal processes
- Development of transformers used in gate driver solutions
- Design and optimization of analog and digital circuits with calculations and simulations
- Evaluation of new circuits and components
- Performing of various investigations
- Performing of low- and high-voltage measurements/characterizations incl. type testing
- Elaboration of internal technical documentation and reports
- Alignment with internal (e.g. marketing, application engineering, project management, IC design, quality, operations, sales, finance, HR) and external (e.g. suppliers and customers) teams
Education and work experience:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering with focus on power electronics and/or analog/digital electronics
- Minimum 5 years’ industry experience in power electronics or analog electronics
- Experience in leading and developing a technical team focused on product development
- Experience with spice-based simulation software such as Simetrix or LT Spice
- Experience with low-voltage and high-voltage measurement techniques
- Preferably experience with gate drivers
- Preferable experience with digital electronics and code/software development
- Preferably experience with design/layout software of electronic circuits
- Preferably experience with EMC and isolation coordination standards
Soft skills:
- Good written and oral command of English language
- Sense of responsibility and ownership
- Team working, communication skills
- Accurate and risk-oriented working style