Senior Motor Drive and Power Electronics Engineer

Strativ Group; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Strativ Group, a confidential space and defence engineering contractor in California, seeks a Senior Motor Drive and Power Electronics Engineer to develop drives, controllers and power‑conversion hardware for a high‑performance spacecraft payload. This is a hands‑on role blending motor‑control algorithms with real‑world hardware.

You will design motor drives, model systems, implement FOC on DSP/MCU/FPGA, and validate through HIL/SIL testing, collaborating across electrical, software and systems

Qualifications

• 7+ years of motor-drive, controls and power-electronics experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with BLDC/PMSM motors, three-phase drives, inverters and field-oriented control.
• MATLAB/Simulink modelling and control-loop design experience.
• Experience taking algorithms through to embedded hardware deployment.
• Confidence debugging hardware/software interfaces and testing early-stage prototypes.
• A practical, systems-level approach to solving difficult electromechanical problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop motor drives, controllers, actuators, inverters and power-conversion systems
• Model and simulate electromechanical and power systems to support design decisions and system sizing
• Develop and implement BLDC/PMSM control algorithms, including field-oriented control
• Deploy controls work onto DSP, MCU or FPGA targets
• Build and use HIL/SIL environments to test, refine and validate designs
• Work across electrical, software and systems engineering to take prototypes through development and test
• Make clear technical calls around performance, cost, risk and build-versus-buy decisions

Skills

Motor drives

BLDC/PMSM control

MATLAB/Simulink

Embedded deployment

DSP/MCU/FPGA

Hardware testing

Job description

Senior Motor Drive and Power Electronics Engineer

A confidential space and defence engineering company is looking for a Senior Motor Drive and Power Electronics Engineer to develop the drives, controllers and power-conversion hardware behind a high-performance spacecraft payload.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who understands both the motor-control algorithms and the hardware required to make them work in the real world.

What you will do

• Design and develop motor drives, controllers, actuators, inverters and power-conversion systems
• Model and simulate electromechanical and power systems to support design decisions and system sizing
• Develop and implement BLDC/PMSM control algorithms, including field-oriented control
• Deploy controls work onto DSP, MCU or FPGA targets
• Build and use HIL/SIL environments to test, refine and validate designs
• Work across electrical, software and systems engineering to take prototypes through development and test
• Make clear technical calls around performance, cost, risk and build-versus-buy decisions

What you will bring

• 7+ years of motor-drive, controls and power-electronics experience
• Strong hands-on experience with BLDC/PMSM motors, three-phase drives, inverters and field-oriented control
• MATLAB/Simulink modelling and control-loop design experience
• Experience taking algorithms through to embedded hardware deployment
• Confidence debugging hardware/software interfaces and testing early-stage prototypes
• A practical, systems-level approach to solving difficult electromechanical problems

Space experience is useful but not essential. Strong engineers from EV, eVTOL, robotics, industrial motion control, aerospace or high-performance electrification backgrounds will be considered.

Applicants must be eligible to work with US export-controlled information and able to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.