Power Electronics Engineer

LAT Aerospace; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

LAT Aerospace in Bengaluru seeks a Power Electronics Engineer to design and develop power electronics for hybrid-electric powertrains. You will create schematics, PCB layouts, power stages, gate drives, and sensing interfaces, and lead prototype development from bring-up to hardware validation.

The role requires strong fundamentals in power conversion, high-current designs, and experience with HV/LV safety, EMI/EMC, and test equipment such as oscilloscopes and power analyzers.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in aerospace, EV, or high-performance electrical systems.
• Postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field preferred.
• Strong fundamentals in power conversion, rectification, switching, and inverter systems.
• Hands-on experience from schematic to working prototypes.
• Experience with rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, and motor controllers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop power electronics for hybrid-electric powertrains.
• Develop schematics, PCB layouts, power stages, gate drives, sensing interfaces.
• Design and optimize power distribution architecture across generators, batteries, motors, and loads.
• Perform component selection, electrical sizing, thermal analysis, and derating for aerospace applications.
• Develop simulation models for converters, motor drives, and system-level electrical architecture.
• Lead prototype development including board bring-up, debugging, and hardware validation.
• Design and implement protection, isolation, grounding, sensing, fault detection, and safety mechanisms.
• Develop test setups for power electronics characterization and validation.
• Document designs, test procedures, validation results, and engineering decisions.

Skills

Power electronics design

PCB design

High-current/high-frequency layouts

System-level electrical architecture

Thermal management

Schematic and layout development

Hardware debugging

HV/LV safety and EMI/EMC awareness

Education

Postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

PLECS

LTspice

PSIM

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

We’re Hiring: Power Electronics Engineer

Full time | Core team

LAT Aerospace | Civil

LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot, Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines.

What you’ll do

• Design and develop power electronics for hybrid-electric powertrains, including rectifiers, power distribution board, PCUs, DC-DC converters, motor controllers/ESCs, and associated power boards.
• Develop schematics, PCB layouts, power stages, gate drives, sensing, protection, and control interfaces.
• Design and optimize power distribution architecture across generators, batteries, motors, and electrical loads.
• Perform component selection, electrical sizing, thermal analysis, failure mode identification, and derating for aerospace applications.
• Develop simulation models for converters, motor drives, power distribution, and system-level electrical architecture for appropriate software in loop simulations.
• Lead prototype development including board bring-up, debugging, characterization, hardware validation and integration.
• Design and implement protection, isolation, grounding, current/voltage sensing, fault detection, and safety mechanisms.
• Develop test setups and instrumentation for power electronics characterization and system validation.
• Diagnose hardware failures and drive rapid design iterations based on test results.Document designs, test procedures, validation results, and engineering decisions.

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years of professional experience in aerospace, EV, industrial, or other high-performance electrical systems.
• Postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related field is preferred
• Strong fundamentals in power conversion, rectification, switching circuits, and inverter systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and debugging power electronics hardware from schematic through working prototypes.
• Experience with rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, motor controllers/ESCs, or power distribution systems.
• Experience with power semiconductor devices, gate drives, magnetics, current/voltage sensing, and thermal management.
• Strong PCB design experience, including multilayer boards and high-current/high-frequency layouts.
• Experience with simulation tools such as PLECS, LTspice, PSIM, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with HV/LV safety, isolation, grounding, protection, EMI/EMC, and electrical fault handling.
• Comfortable working directly with high-power hardware, oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies, and other test equipment.

Why LAT?

• No hierarchy beyond strength of ideas.
• Rapid hardware iteration culture.
• Own the complete journey from engineering design to flight-ready hardware.