Power Electronics Engineer

LAT Aerospace Private; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

LAT Aerospace in Bengaluru is seeking a Power Electronics Engineer to own hands-on development from architecture to flight-ready hardware. The role spans power conversion, distribution, motor control, embedded hardware, and high-power electrical systems.

You will design schematics, PCB layouts, perform thermal analysis, prototype bring-up, and work with test equipment to ensure aerospace reliability and safety of power electronics systems.

Qualifications

• :Design and develop power electronics for aerospace applications.
• :Experience with rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters and motor controllers.
• :Strong PCB design and high-current/high-frequency layouts.
• :Hands-on hardware design from schematic to working prototype.
• :Thermal management and electrical sizing for aerospace systems.
• :Ability to work with HV/LV safety and EMI/EMC considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop power electronics for hybrid-electric powertrains, including PCUs and DC‑DC converters.
• Develop schematics, PCB layouts, power stages, gate drives, sensing, protection, and control interfaces.
• Design and optimize power distribution across generators, batteries, motors, and loads.
• Perform component selection, electrical sizing, thermal analysis, failure mode identifications.
• Develop simulation models for converters, motor drives, and system-level architecture.
• Lead prototype development including bring-up, debugging, and hardware validation.
• Design protection, isolation, grounding, sensing, fault detection, and safety mechanisms.
• Develop test setups and instrumentation for power electronics characterization.

Skills

Power electronics

Aerospace systems

PCB design

High-current layouts

Embedded hardware

Prototype development

Education

Postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Electronics

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.

The Power Electronics Engineer role is a hands‑on one spanning power conversion, power distribution, motor control, embedded hardware, and high‑power electrical systems. You will take hardware from architecture and schematic design through PCB development, fabrication, testing, and integration.

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.