Inverter Hardware Engineer for Robotic Actuators

Dexmate Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexmate Inc. in the United States is seeking a Motor Drive and Power Electronics Engineer to own the inverter hardware powering our actuators, from architecture through production release. You will work with the motor and embedded controls teams to ensure electrical limits, sensing, and protection meet performance needs.

This role emphasizes hands-on hardware bring-up and collaboration across disciplines. This position offers opportunities to shape robotics hardware in a rapidly growing startup

Qualifications

• Designed and brought up a BLDC, PMSM or servo inverter on real hardware.
• Strong power-electronics fundamentals including switching devices and protection.
• Hands-on schematic and PCB experience with an industry-standard EDA tool.
• Collaborated with firmware engineers on motor-control co-design.

Responsibilities

• Define inverter architecture and electrical operating limits with the actuator lead, motor designer and robot power-system team.
• Design power stages, gate drivers, DC-link components, current and voltage sensing, encoder interfaces and protection circuits.
• Own schematics, PCB layout or layout oversight, component selection and design reviews, including switching loops, grounding, isolation where needed and thermal constraints.
• Bring up hardware with embedded controls engineers; verify switching behavior, sensing accuracy, losses and safe responses to electrical faults.
• Develop bench characterization for efficiency, current capability and thermal performance; apply EMI/EMC principles and support pre-compliance testing.
• Prepare production documentation and test requirements; work with manufacturers and electrical test engineers to resolve failures and improve manufacturability.

Skills

BLDC/PMSM inverter experience

Power electronics fundamentals

Schematic & PCB layout experience

Field-oriented control knowledge

Tools

EDA tool

Oscilloscope

Current probe

Job description

Dexmate Inc. in the United States is seeking a Motor Drive and Power Electronics Engineer to own the inverter hardware powering our actuators, from architecture through production release. You will work with the motor and embedded controls teams to ensure electrical limits, sensing, and protection meet performance needs.

This role emphasizes hands-on hardware bring-up and collaboration across disciplines. This position offers opportunities to shape robotics hardware in a rapidly growing startup