Senior Motor Test Engineer - Powertrain

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Conduct full electromechanical characterization of BLDC motors including loss characterization, thermal coefficient extraction, and demagnetization testing
• Evaluate propulsion systems (motor + inverter + propeller) for thrust, efficiency, and thermal behavior across the full operational envelope
• Test servo and motor-based actuators for positional accuracy, losses, holding torque, and closed-loop dynamic response
• Define and own test specifications covering efficiency maps, thermal performance, torque-speed curves, cogging, back-EMF, and endurance
• Perform root cause analysis on field failures and correlate back to test data to close the loop between lab and flight
• Own the full performance and reliability test campaign for your hardware - you are the go-to person to understand how a part will perform in the field, and when the hardware is pushed to its limits.
• Characterize wear-out mechanisms for complex actuator and propeller subassemblies, subject to billions of damage cycles per lifetime.
• Develop novel ways for validating motor and structural models and FEA validation.