Master Thesis: Revving Up Resilience: Modelling of Modern Fail-Operational and Highly Available ATV Power Systems (f/m/div)

At a glance

Do you want to deepen your knowledge by getting some work experience and as cherry on top doing your master thesis with a future-oriented company on a real-life topic? The KAI Competence Center for Automotive and Industrial Electronics was founded in 2006, is a 100% subsidiary of Infineon, and is located in the Villach Technology Park. The focus of our research is the reliability of power semiconductors in automotive and industrial applications. Our team in Villach is looking forward to receiving your application!

Job description

At KAI, we create reliability test methods and systems. For an existing power distribution test system, we plan to extend the functionality in the direction of mimicking fail-operational and highly available power distribution topologies and build up a system-level model within Matlabs Simscape.
Therefore, during your thesis project, we expect you to become a growing expert in high-level system modeling, with a strong focus on Automotive Power Distribution Topologies. This means you will need to acquire some special knowledge and perform dedicated tasks:

• Learn about Infineon’s Smart Power Switches and how to use them in power distribution topologies
• Improve your skills in high-level system modeling with state-of-the-art tools
• Evaluate different topologies and develop an evaluation scheme to scientifically compare them
• Design, build, and evaluate a working prototype
• Document your results by writing and submitting your Master thesis

This thesis has to be written in cooperation with an university.

Further Information
Type of employment: Temporary / Full-time (flexible working hours from Monday to Friday between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.)
Duration: min. 8 months
 
Your Profile

You are a committed master’s student covering the area of Electrical Engineering, (Power-) Electronics, and System Engineering with a strong ambition for modern automotive power distribution topologies. With your hands-on mentality, you like to bring ideas to life. You have:

• Knowledge and experience with lab measurements, circuit design, electro-thermal simulations (SPICE, Simscape, PLECS,…) and doing PCB layouts
• The ability to work and communicate well with our international team in English and German is a plus
• Completed most of your exams and can start right away

This position is subject to the collective agreement for workers and employees in the electrical and electronics industry (full-time), employment group D for master students (https://www.feei.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/minimum-salaries-white-collar-workers-2024.pdf). 

Please attach the following documents (German or English) to your application:

• Motivation letter
• CV
• Certificate of matriculation at a university
• Latest Transcript of records (not older than 6 months)
• Highest completed educational certificate (Bachelor certificate for Master students)
• Reference letter (optional)