Power electronics jobs

Power electronics engineers design the inverters, converters, rectifiers, and chargers that move power between solar panels, batteries, electrolysers, and the grid; field engineers commission and repair them. Most openings are design, firmware, and test roles at North American equipment makers, led by microinverter maker Enphase and home-battery company Lunar Energy.

What the jobs involve

• Power electronics engineers choose the topology, size magnetics and cooling, select IGBT, silicon carbide, or gallium nitride (GaN) switches, and take prototypes into production.
• Hardware and firmware engineers lay out high-voltage boards and write the control loops that run the converter on DSPs.
• Reliability and certification engineers run life tests and failure analysis and certify products to UL 1741 or IEC 62477.
• Field service engineers and inverter specialists repair string and central inverters and battery converters on site, down to IGBT modules and control boards.

Who is hiring

Enphase recruits in Texas, California, and Bengaluru for microinverters, batteries, and a solid-state transformer. Lunar Energy, Dynapower, Eos Energy Enterprises, Moment Energy, and Canadian Solar's e-Storage design inverter and storage hardware. Fusion developers Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Thea Energy, and Helion Energy need custom power supplies.

In Europe, AEG Power Solutions hires field engineers for its rectifiers and UPS systems in Italy and Spain; STABL Energy (Munich), Alfen (Almere), Ampowr (Utrecht), and CorPower Ocean (Stockholm) develop their own power electronics. ENGIE in Pune and NextEra Energy hire inverter and battery storage specialists.

Skills and qualifications

Design roles ask for an electrical engineering degree, senior ones five to ten years of converter design; Enphase asks for an MSc or PhD. Ads name PLECS, PSIM, LTspice, MATLAB/Simulink, gate-driver and magnetics design, and C or C++ for firmware. US field roles add NFPA 70E arc-flash training.

Students start with theses and internships: GaN power modules at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg, semiconductor testing at Hitachi Energy, DC microgrids at Siemens Energy. The solar energy career guide lists inverter makers and salaries.

What is changing

In May 2026 the EU began withholding its funding, including European Investment Bank loans, from projects using inverters from "high-risk" suppliers, chiefly Chinese makers, which hold an estimated 80% of the world market (Euronews). Orders shift to makers in Europe, the US, Japan, and South Korea.

The Commission's July 2026 draft grid-connection code introduces grid-forming requirements and extends them to battery storage (Energy Storage Europe), so inverter makers need control engineers who can prove that behaviour in hardware-in-the-loop tests.