Senior Motor Electromagnetic Engineer
Core
Develop and own analytical and numerical modeling and validation capabilities for electric machines to design, select, and optimize motors for Zipline's autonomous aircraft platforms.
Role type
Senior IC motor electromagnetic engineer (aerospace)
Builds
Common motor-modeling framework, reusable libraries of motor models, performance maps, loss models, and scalable design-space datasets
Domain
Aerospace + Electric Machines/Electromagnetics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Electric-machine fundamentals, finite-element modeling, reduced-order modeling, MATLAB, dynamometer testing, model validation, first-principles analysis
Preferred skills
Aerospace/electric aviation experience, Python scripting for optimization, motor-control techniques, thermal-network modeling, multi-objective optimization
Technologies
Motor-CAD, JMAG, Maxwell, COMSOL, MATLAB, dynamometer systems
Responsibilities
Develop and validate electromagnetic models for propulsion and auxiliary motors; Build a reusable library of motor models and validation evidence; Generate torque-speed envelopes, efficiency maps, and loss breakdowns; Create scalable design-space clouds and perform sensitivity studies; Integrate motor models with inverter, battery, and aircraft mission models; Plan and execute dynamometer experiments to characterize motor performance; Correlate electromagnetic models against test data to improve fidelity
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC