Motor Drive Engineer – Hybrid Propulsion Focus

HX5, LLC; Brook Park (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Medical and dependent care flexible FS

Pet insurance

Job summary

HX5, LLC is seeking an Electrical Engineer II to join its hardware team supporting NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, Ohio. The role focuses on motor-drive engineering, analyses, design, assemblies, and test cycles to evaluate next-generation propulsion concepts and rapid design methodologies.

You will conduct ground and flight-test support, measure electrical parameters, and use KiCAD for circuit design and PCB layout, with a requirement for U.S.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and testing motor drives.
• Ability to empirically measure static torque under rotor/stator alignments.
• Instrument the test setup to capture electrical parameters of the drive.
• Experience with ECAD tooling for circuit design and PCB layout (KiCAD).

Responsibilities

• Conduct analyses, designs, assemblies, integrations, ground test and flight test cycles to evaluate propulsion concepts.
• Develop rapid, novel system-design methodologies for next-generation hybrid propulsion.
• Identify and evaluate open-source software and AI packages to accelerate design cycles from idea to hardware.

Skills

Motor drive testing

Torque measurement

Test instrumentation

ECAD KiCAD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

KiCAD

Job description

HX5, LLC is seeking an Electrical Engineer II to join its hardware team supporting NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, Ohio. The role focuses on motor-drive engineering, analyses, design, assemblies, and test cycles to evaluate next-generation propulsion concepts and rapid design methodologies.

You will conduct ground and flight-test support, measure electrical parameters, and use KiCAD for circuit design and PCB layout, with a requirement for U.S.