Power Electronics Engineer

Senior Power Electronics Hardware Design Engineer

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Power Electronics Hardware Design Engineer to lead the design and development of power electronics for motor drive and motor generator unit (MGU) applications within the aerospace and defense sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop power electronics architectures for motor drive and MGU systems
• Design inverter, rectifier, and bridge stages for PMSM, BLDC, and brushed DC (BDC) machines
• Design gate driver, protection, and isolation circuits for high-power switching stages
• Design starter/generator and alternator power conversion, rectification, and regulation circuits
• Select power semiconductors (MOSFET, IGBT, SiC/GaN) and perform switching and conduction loss and derating analysis
• Design magnetics (inductors, transformers, current sensing) and DC-link and EMI filter stages
• Perform thermal design, heatsink sizing, and cooling analysis for power circuits
• Design current and voltage sensing, isolation, and feedback circuits for closed-loop control
• Perform schematic design and high-current, high-voltage PCB layout
• Conduct simulation, analysis, and design verification using LTspice, PLECS, PSIM, or Simulink
• Ensure hardware designs address EMC/EMI and environmental qualification requirements
• Plan and support power stage bring-up, integration, and qualification testing
• Collaborate with system, software, electrical machine, test, and certification teams

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a related field
• Minimum of five years of hands-on experience in power electronics and motor drive hardware design
• Strong knowledge of switching converter topologies (buck, boost, flyback, half/full bridge, three-phase inverter)
• Strong knowledge of electrical machines, including alternators, generators, starters, PMSM, BLDC, and BDC motors
• Experience with gate driver design, dead-time management, and short-circuit/overcurrent protection
• Experience with power semiconductor selection, loss calculation, and thermal derating
• Experience with magnetics design and high-current PCB layout practices
• Proficiency with schematic and PCB layout tools such as Altium Designer or Mentor PADS
• Experience with power electronics simulation tools such as LTspice, PLECS, PSIM, or Simulink
• Experience applying EMC/EMI-aware design practices to switching power stages
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, and RTCA/DO-160
• Knowledge of RTCA/DO-254 and requirements traceability practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ECU or MGU power electronics hardware development
• Experience with electrical machine design and analysis tools (Motor-CAD, JMAG, Ansys Maxwell, Altair Flux)
• Familiarity with sensorless control, resolver/encoder interfaces, and field-oriented control hardware requirements
• Familiarity with aerospace and defense hardware development and certification practices

Please note this role is based in the UAE and requires relocation