Careers at Magna-Power

Build something real, in America.

Join a family-founded team designing and building the programmable power that runs labs, factories, and test floors worldwide, and watch your work leave the dock in something real.

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Our Culture

One team, under one roof.
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Magna-Power is one team under one roof.

The people who design our products, the people who build them, the people who sell and support them, and the people who keep the company running all work side by side in Flemington, New Jersey.

We're close enough that ideas, questions, and help move at the speed of a thirty-second walk, and everyone can watch their work leave the dock in something real.

We're family-founded, and we think in decades, not quarters.

We invest in long careers, promote on merit, and act on good ideas no matter which bench or desk they come from.

We expect a lot of each other: own your work, keep your word, speak up early, and look out for your teammates.

And we give a lot back: leaders who know your name and work alongside you, the stability of a company that's been growing since 1981, and the pride of building something in America that powers work that matters, knowing exactly which part of it was yours.

We're looking for great talent

Magna-Power is a dynamic small business with high-level competence across a wide range of technological fields. Our world-class team builds products of the highest capability and quality, transforming raw materials and components into finished products.

  • 2022 Winner, Hunterdon County Business of the Year
  • 2016 Winner, New Jersey Manufacturer of the Year
  • 2016 Finalist, New Jersey Family Business of the Year
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Open Positions

Join the team

We're hiring across engineering, manufacturing, and operations. We are an equal-opportunity employer offering competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, and a 401k savings plan.

Don't see your role? Contact our human resources team at [email protected] to keep your information on file.

Benefits & Perks

We invest in our team

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Generous time off

Time to truly relax and reboot.

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Comprehensive benefits

Health, vision, dental, life & disability.

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401k savings plan

Excellent package with company match.

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Dynamic culture

Transparency, collaboration, learning.

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Educational assistance

Tuition covered for approved programs.

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Modern clean facilities

Custom-designed, company-owned.

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Free EV charging

Charge on-site at no cost, every workday.

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Flexible spending account

Pre-tax for healthcare & commuting.

A great place to live

Room to build a life, not just a career

Hunterdon County, New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania are consistently ranked among the most beautiful counties in the United States, with great schools and easy access to both New York City and Philadelphia.

Internship & Co-Op Program

From concept to the production floor

Our year-round program offers an unparalleled opportunity to take an idea from engineering, to prototype, and through to full manufacturing. Opportunities span every engineering function and business operation, with experienced mentors and some of the hardest challenges facing the company.

Open positions are posted under Open Positions on the date applications begin being accepted.

Spring & Summer
Applications: Dec 1 – Feb 10
Fall & Winter
Applications: May 1 – Jun 15

Get notified by email when internship application acceptance opens.

Past Intern & Co-Op Projects

Real work that shipped. Every project here was owned by a student, taken from concept to the production floor.

Dashboard Software Software
Summer 2016

Dashboard Software

MagnaDASH is custom software for collecting, analyzing, and displaying information from our company database. The the backend was written in Python using the CherryPy and hosted on an Ubuntu virtual machine. The clients are Intel Compute Sticks, which was found was the most compact solution for driving the 4K resolution televisions. The front end was programmed using Node.js, Bootstrap and Sass. The project integrates with our continuous integration so that changes in SVN automatically triggers updates to the server, rebuilding of the frontend, and resetting the many clients at the company.

Ben Goldberg
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
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Product Testing Cell Mechanical
Summer Intern 2019

Product Testing Cell

The Testing Department needed to be optimized by going vertical! Testing equipment were moved into a tall racks on wheels. This increased the density of measurement equipment per testing cell and could be rearrangement as needed. Mock ups and studies were made to ensure we could test the entire product line. We had daily communication with the Testing Department to gather feedback. Bill of materials, mechanical drawings, and electrical wiring diagrams were created so that production could build them. We leveraged our sheet metal fabrication capability to punched out custom panels for emergency stops and AC input control. Test carts were overhauled for front access, further improving Magna-Power's commitment to safety.

Hank Huang
Rutgers University
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Online Product Configurator Software
Summer Intern 2019

Online Product Configurator

The Magna-Power Product Configurator (Gen 1) was designed as a way document and present the various options, constraints, and ranges in voltage, current, and power. During the build process, a Python script grabs all the active model information from the Postgres database and exports it as a dictionary. Another python function was created to filter these results. The filter contains the various rules imposed by engineering and sales. The filter was written in Python, as that is the company's preferred language, and can be read by across teams. Transcrypt was used to convert this code into JavaScript functions. File based storage greatly simplified website integration and improved speed, as no database connection is required. User interface was programmed using JavaScript that injected DOM elements onto the page. The fronted contains Bootstrap and CSS. Final software was also built into a Craft Module so that it could be integrated on the company website.

Lorenzo Sanelli
Hunterdon Central
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Real-Time Inventory System Software
Summer 2017

Real-Time Inventory System

Real-time inventory tracking and kitting. Material gets deducted as soon as it leaves the shelf during kitting. Material gets added as soon as it enters stockroom. Required hardware that made data entry fast, simple, less error prone, and portable. A rugged Android handheld computer was selected with numeric keypad and laser bar-code scanner. A Python shell utility was created using npyscreen, terminal application framework, and hosed on an Ubuntu virtual machine. Users log into the application using SSH. This implementation allows simultaneous picking and usage, easy to program maintain, quick to navigate (hot-keys), and is cross platform.

Ben Goldberg
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
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1U Digital Front Panel Electrical
Spring-Summer 2019

1U Digital Front Panel

The VFD display is the single most expensive component in the product. Extensive research was needed to see if it could be replaced with newer, lower cost OLED or vertically aligned LCD. Vendors were contacted all over the world. Specifications such as view angle, brightness, burn-in, life expectancy, response time, were compared – traits expected in a rack mount supply operating for decades. Despite being the oldest technology, it excelled in each of these categories and was grandfathered into the new design. 1U Gen2 Front Panel was designed in Altium Designer, Autodesk Inventor, and AutoCAD. The 3U design was broken up into multiple boards stacked using board-to-board connectors. Stacking allowed us to cram all that technology into 1.75". Microcontroller display drivers, written in C, were updated to accommodate an additional 5th digit on the 7-segment display. A new, smaller, rubber keypad was designed along with sheet metal.

Hieu Mai
Drexel University
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Industrial Network Connectivity Electrical
Summer 2020-2021

Industrial Network Connectivity

Implementing Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) would allow Magna-Power to address the industrial automation market. The goal was to provide native serial Modbus and add-on Ethernet-based EtherCAT, Profinet, and EtherNet/IP. Modbus protocol was programmed and now comes standard on ALx MagnaLOADs and DBx Accessories. The ethernet-based protocols were implemented with the help of Anybus communication modules manufactured by HMS Networks. The driver-level source code and API provided by Anybus were integrated within the existing code base. Drivers detect the type of module installed, and on startup, adapts automatically. A new communication printed circuit board (PCB) was designed to fit different Anybus modules and therefore supports multiple protocols. Each protocol was documented and included setup, configuration, and validation examples. Full details on each command was programmed to be exportable and was used to auto-generate documentation. In addition to completing this major project, Aaron was learning Altium and supporting production by fixing PCB designs so that they could be more easily manufactured.

Aaron Reers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Inventory Library Parts Creation Mechanical
Summer 2020

Inventory Library Parts Creation

Successful adoption of 3D modeling required creating a mechanical library of all the Magna-Power's common parts: screws, nuts, studs, etc. The project evolved to a larger scope than anticipated because parts were described consistently, which resulted in duplicate part records. Much thought went into grouping parts, designing an internal naming system, identifying component parameters, and using those parameters to automatically create version of parts that match what is stocked. The library created will hopefully find use for next 40 years!

Alec Rybarski
Stevens Institute of Technology
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Production Tooling and Jig Designs Mechanical
Summer 2021

Production Tooling and Jig Designs

Production inefficiencies are often solved with a jig or fixture that make parts easier to process or increases the number of parts that can be processed at a time. The Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Department reported problems with their jig for soldering a small heatsink onto diodes and PCBs. The existing jig was cumbersome and prone to breaking. The fixture was redesign by expanding the diode opening giving the assembler better access for soldering. A corner edge was added to align the diodes and heatsinks to the PCB. Binder clamps were replaced with toggle clamps to improve surface contact with soldered components and increase heat conduction. The Testing Department wanted to consolidate all the equipment to a single rack to recover workspace and speed up testing. Alec designed custom panels and shelving needed for panel mounting measurement equipment. One custom shelf was dedicated to automated data acquisition, which need mounting locations for PCBs, power supplies, BNC jacks, etc. The task required learning how to read an electrical schematic and layout components efficiently to minimize wiring paths. The oscilloscope, which used to take up a lot of benchtop space, was mounted into the a rack with a custom panel.

Alec Rybarski
Stevens Institute of Technology
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Automated Test System Electrical
Summer 2021

Automated Test System

An Automated Test System (ATS) was created to be flexible and future-proof, since it is mostly Magna-Power’s own design. Existing power supply test procedures were evaluated to determine acquisition and interface requirements, such as the analog resolution, quantity of input/output channels, sampling speed, voltage levels, etc. Software called PiDaq was developed for a single-board-computer (SBC) to control the ATS. The SBC talked to sensors and MUXs using SPI, I2C communications, and its own GPIOs. Magna-Power’s standard test software, TestAndCal, talked to the ATS using a Web API. A python-based library was developed to wrap this API. Logan made additional hardware improvements to the test rack. He wrote ladder logic for the programmable logic controller (PLC) to adjust voltage on the three-phase variable transformer and described the operating state of the rack with illumination patterns on the stack light. Another Python-library was created so that TestAndCal could interface with the PLC. A lot of thought went into safety, especially when TestAndCal takes control of the rack to automate tests.

Logan Greif
Rowan University
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