Electric Machine Control Engineer — Real Hardware, Hybrid Role

Cooled Motors; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Hands-on prototyping on real hardware

Ownership in a small engineering team

Job summary

Cooled Motors Ltd is seeking an Electric Machine Control Engineer to design, model and validate motor-control algorithms for next-generation electric drives. You will work with power electronics, EM, mechanical and thermal teams to bring concepts from simulation into tested prototypes, focusing on control of electric machines and inverters.

You will develop in MATLAB/Simulink and related tools, analyse performance, and contribute to control architecture and hardware integration for automotive

Qualifications

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Mechatronics, Power Electronics or related field.
• Experience developing control algorithms for electric machines, motor drives, inverters or related electromechanical systems.
• Strong MATLAB/Simulink modelling and simulation experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop control strategies for electric machines and drive systems.
• Develop motor-control models in MATLAB/Simulink, Simscape, PLECS or equivalent tools.
• Develop control logic for inverter-driven machines, including PWM, sensing, protective interfaces.
• Analyse drive performance across torque, speed, efficiency, and thermal conditions.
• Support model-based design, auto-code generation and embedded implementation.

Skills

MATLAB/Simulink

Control algorithms

Three-phase machines

Hardware debugging

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Masters/PhD in related field

Tools

PLECS

LTspice

PSIM

dSPACE

Job description

Cooled Motors Ltd is seeking an Electric Machine Control Engineer to design, model and validate motor-control algorithms for next-generation electric drives. You will work with power electronics, EM, mechanical and thermal teams to bring concepts from simulation into tested prototypes, focusing on control of electric machines and inverters.

You will develop in MATLAB/Simulink and related tools, analyse performance, and contribute to control architecture and hardware integration for automotive