Power Electronics Engineer

We're Hiring: Power Electronics Engineer

Full time | Core team

LAT Aerospace | Aircraft

LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot, Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines.

The Power Electronics Engineer role is a hands-on one spanning power conversion, power distribution, motor control, embedded hardware, and high-power electrical systems. You will take hardware from architecture and schematic design through PCB development, fabrication, testing, and integration.

What you'll do

• Design and develop power electronics for hybrid-electric powertrains, including rectifiers, power distribution board, PCUs, DC-DC converters, motor controllers/ESCs, and associated power boards.
• Develop schematics, PCB layouts, power stages, gate drives, sensing, protection, and control interfaces.
• Design and optimize power distribution architecture across generators, batteries, motors, and electrical loads.
• Perform component selection, electrical sizing, thermal analysis, failure mode identification, and derating for aerospace applications.
• Develop simulation models for converters, motor drives, power distribution, and system-level electrical architecture for appropriate software in loop simulations.
• Lead prototype development including board bring-up, debugging, characterization, hardware validation and integration.
• Design and implement protection, isolation, grounding, current/voltage sensing, fault detection, and safety mechanisms.
• Develop test setups and instrumentation for power electronics characterization and system validation.
• Diagnose hardware failures and drive rapid design iterations based on test results.
• Document designs, test procedures, validation results, and engineering decisions.
  
  

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of professional experience in aerospace, EV, industrial, or other high-performance electrical systems.
• Postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related field is preferred
• Strong fundamentals in power conversion, rectification, switching circuits, and inverter systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and debugging power electronics hardware from schematic through working prototypes.
• Experience with rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, motor controllers/ESCs, or power distribution systems.
• Experience with power semiconductor devices, gate drives, magnetics, current/voltage sensing, and thermal management.
• Strong PCB design experience, including multilayer boards and high-current/high-frequency layouts.
• Experience with simulation tools such as PLECS, LTspice, PSIM, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with HV/LV safety, isolation, grounding, protection, EMI/EMC, and electrical fault handling.
• Comfortable working directly with high-power hardware, oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies, and other test equipment.
  
  

Why LAT

• No hierarchy beyond strength of ideas.
• Rapid hardware iteration culture.
• Own the complete journey from engineering design to flight-ready hardware.