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About the Role
Own the technical relationship with Westmag's drone OEM customers, covering design integration, duty-cycle changes, application engineering, and end-of-line validation correlation. Report to the Commercial Team and collaborate with Motor Design.
Responsibilities
- Manage the technical relationship with Westmag's drone OEM customers.
- Interpret specifications, address application-engineering questions, and manage duty-cycle and thermal trade-offs.
- Conduct customer-witnessed test programs for new motor variants, correlating with Westmag's end-of-line validation data.
- Provide first response for field issues, including triage, escalation to design or quality, and customer follow-through.
- Serve as the engineering voice for early-stage technical engagements with prospective drone OEMs.
- Develop app-note and reference-design content for the drone-motor product family.
Requirements
- BSEE, BSME, or equivalent technical degree.
- 5+ years of field/applications engineering or customer-engineering experience at a motor, sensor, drive, or actuator company.
- Strong fundamentals in electric-motor application (KV, torque, thermal, efficiency curves).
- Familiarity with motor control, VFD, or inverter integration at the customer-system level.
- Customer-facing confidence, written and verbal, at the engineer-to-engineer level.
- Willingness to travel up to 40% to customer sites.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
- Direct experience supporting drone, robotics, or aerospace OEM customers.
- Background combining FAE work with end-of-line / dynamometer test correlation.
- Experience authoring application notes and technical white papers.
Skills
- Electric-motor application fundamentals (KV, torque, thermal, efficiency curves)
- Motor control, VFD, or inverter integration
- Customer-facing communication (written and verbal)
- Application note and technical white paper authoring
Location
- South San Francisco
- Up to 40% travel to customer sites
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- BSEE
- BSME
- Equivalent technical degree
Salary/Compensations
- Base salary plus equity
- Specifics discussed during interview process
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Health coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
About the Company
- Westmag, or Western Magnetics Company, is an American manufacturer of drone motors and robot actuators.
- Designs and manufactures products in South San Francisco, committed to U.S. building and scaling for the global market.
- Ramping production to supply millions of motors and actuators to leading drone and robot companies.
- Headquartered in South San Francisco.
- Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, NFDG, Menlo Ventures, and other top investors.
Equal Opportunity
- Westmag is an equal opportunity employer.
- Provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees.
- Does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, transgender status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, exercise of reproductive rights, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Makes reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- Makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees whose religious beliefs, observances, or practices conflict with workplace requirements.
- To request an accommodation during the application or interview process, speak with your recruiter.