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# Principal Engineer - Applications & Power

- **Company:** Vantage Consulting
- **Location:** Allentown, PA, United States
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $185,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, LTspice, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7ab3bf01ecce1add

## About the Role

* Several years of experience designing SMPS, inverters, converters, or motor drive systems
 * Demonstrable experience with a range of power converter/inverter topologies
 * Expert understanding of power semiconductor devices, including silicon and/or wide-bandgap technologies such as SiC and GaN
 * Proficiency with power electronics simulation and modelling tools such as PLECS, LTspice, PSIM, SIMPLIS, or similar
 * Laboratory validation experience using oscilloscopes, power analysers, and switching characterisation equipment
 * Ability to work directly with customers and provide technical support

## Description

You will be working within a role focused on high-performance power conversion applications, liaising with customers and internal engineering teams. The successful candidate will contribute to design development, product evaluation, technical support, and product definition across a range of power electronics applications., * Act as a technical expert supporting customers designing with advanced power semiconductor devices

 * Develop and support high-efficiency power conversion reference designs across applications such as: industrial motor drives and servo drives, power conversion systems, DC-DC power converters, and high-frequency AC-DC power conversion systems
 * Work extensively with a range of converter topologies
 * Perform power loss modelling, efficiency optimisation, thermal analysis, and system-level performance evaluation
 * Design and validate gate drive solutions for high-speed switching power devices
 * Support customer design reviews, troubleshooting activities, and application-level debugging
 * Create technical documentation
 * Provide technical support to internal applications and field engineering teams