Own the hardware for our next generation of servo drives, from the first architecture study through prototype, validation, early customers, and transfer to production.
Allient-Rochester (formerly ORMEC Systems, Inc.), part of Allient Inc., designs servo drives, motion controllers, motors, and integrated automation for aerospace and defense, medical, semiconductor, e-mobility, logistics, packaging, and industrial automation customers.
Summary:We are building a new family of embedded servo drives around GaN-based three-phase BLDC inverters and modern DSP/microcontroller control. You will be a hardware lead for that effort. That means researching the enabling technologies, defining the architecture and requirements, designing and bringing up the hardware, proving it works, and handing a robust design to manufacturing, working side by side with the firmware team throughout.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with real technical ownership. It suits an engineer who likes open-ended problems and the lab bench in equal measure.
Apply Now!Responsibilities:- Define the architecture. Research and evaluate new technologies (GaN power stages, gate drive, current sensing, DSP/MCU control platforms) and turn what you learn into a hardware architecture and written requirements.
- Design the hardware. Take the power inverter, gate drive, sensing, protection, DC-link and control circuitry from concept to schematic in Altium, including component selection and design analysis. Work with layout on stack-up, grounding, thermal performance, and DFM/DFT.
- Bring it up. Lead prototype bring-up and root cause analysis with the firmware team, including the hardware/firmware interface.
- Prove it works. Write test plans and procedures, then characterize switching behavior, efficiency, thermal performance and EMI/EMC across operating conditions. Specify or build the test setups you need, and support safety and compliance testing.
- Support early customers. Help first customers integrate and troubleshoot the drive, and feed what you learn back into the design.
- Transfer to production. Own the hardware release package, support manufacturing and production test, and handle sustaining issues from the field.
Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 6+ years of electronics hardware development, including at least one product that went from requirements through production release for which you held significant hardware design responsibility.
- Hands-on experience designing, bringing up and debugging switching power stages such as motor-drive inverters or comparable converters, with a solid grasp of gate drive, switching losses, sensing and protection.
- Strong analog, digital and mixed-signal design skills, including microcontroller/DSP-based hardware and the interface between control and power circuits.
- Proficiency with Altium or a comparable ECAD tool, and practical PCB layout experience (stack-up, grounding, noise, signal integrity, thermal).
- Fluency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, current probes and power instrumentation.
- Experience writing requirements and planning and documenting hardware verification.
- Self-directed: you can take an open-ended problem, research it, propose a path, drive it to a result, and flag risks early.
Preferred Qualifications:- GaN, SiC, MOSFET or IGBT power devices; BLDC/PMSM motor systems; servo drives; DC/DC conversion
- Encoder and feedback interfaces (EnDat, BiSS, SSI, Hall sensors), EtherCAT, CAN
- EMC/EMI, UL/CE compliance, or functional safety (IEC 61508, IEC 61800-5-2, SIL)
- MATLAB/Simulink, embedded C/C++, FPGA/programmable logic, or hardware-in-the-loop test development
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APPLY TODAY!To learn more about Allient Inc. visit www.Allient.com
