Sr. Power Electronics Hardware Engineer

The role

You will design and develop SiC-based propulsion power electronics including motor drives, active rectifiers, and DC/DC converters. This role focuses on hardware design and physical realization for the Laila UAV and Alta Hybrid-electric VTOL programs.

What you will do

• Architect and design SiC-MOSFET-based motor drives, active rectifiers, and DC/DC converters.
• Lead schematic capture and PCB layout for high-voltage, high-current power stages.
• Design gate-drive circuits tailored to SiC device physics.
• Design magnetic components including inductors, chokes, sensors, and isolation transformers.
• Develop DC-link architecture and capacitor banks.
• Lead thermal design of converter assemblies.
• Design EMI/EMC mitigation at the hardware level.
• Define protection architecture including overvoltage, overcurrent, and overtemperature detection.
• Specify and qualify power semiconductors, magnetics, capacitors, sensors, and connectors.
• Lead board bring-up, double-pulse testing, and converter characterization.

Required qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or related discipline.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience designing high-power motor drives or power converters from concept through hardware bring-up.
• Demonstrated expertise in SiC MOSFET-based converter design.
• Strong proficiency in schematic capture and PCB layout for high-power, high-voltage systems.
• Solid magnetics design experience.
• Working knowledge of thermal management for power electronics.
• Experience with EMI/EMC design and mitigation.
• Hands-on lab proficiency with high-voltage bench work.
• Working familiarity with PMSM drive topologies.
• Familiarity with SPICE and converter-level simulation tools (PLECS, LTspice, or equivalent).

Nice to have

• Aerospace or eVTOL powertrain experience, with familiarity in FAA/EASA certification processes.
• Experience with DO-254 compliance in a regulated hardware development environment, plus working familiarity with DO-160, ARP4754B, FMEA/FTA, and requirements traceability.
• Experience designing converters for high-speed PMSMs, including multi-three-phase architectures, generator-mode operation, and active-rectifier topologies.
• Hands-on experience with high-power-density liquid-cooled converter assemblies and integration with airframe cooling systems.
• Familiarity with battery-pack interfaces, pre-charge architectures, and contactor/HVIL design for high-voltage DC distribution.
• Experience taking power electronics hardware from prototype through DVT, qualification testing (DO-160 environmental, vibration, thermal), and into low-rate production.
• Working knowledge of CAN, CAN-FD, and Ethernet hardware interfaces.

About the company

Odys Aviation is at the forefront of developing hybrid-electric aircraft to enable sustainable regional air travel. The company develops Hybrid Power Systems for aerospace with outputs ranging from 20 kW to 4 MW.