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About the Role
Design small brushless DC motors for precision gimbals and propulsion systems, leading their transition from prototypes to high-volume production. Own motor performance and manufacturability, develop scalable supply chains, and supervise in-house machining in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize gimbal and propulsion motors for torque, smoothness, efficiency, weight, reliability, and cost.
- Lead electromagnetic and mechanical design, simulation, prototyping, and performance validation.
- Own the transition to high-volume production, including process development, automation, tooling, production capacity, yield, and end-of-line testing.
- Develop and qualify suppliers for magnets, laminations, windings, bearings, and machined components; manage technical requirements, quality, lead times, and supply continuity.
- Supervise in-house machining of motor components, guiding machinists on drawings, tolerances, fixtures, inspection, and production priorities.
- Partner with controls and electrical engineers on motor drives and feedback; resolve qualification and production failures.
- Own design documentation and engineering changes, and mentor engineers through development and production ramp.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of relevant experience, including hands-on permanent-magnet brushless motor development and ownership through production ramp.
- Strong understanding of motor electromagnetics, saturation, windings, back EMF, torque constants, losses, and thermal limits.
- Proficiency with electromagnetic FEA tools such as Ansys Maxwell, JMAG, or Motor-CAD, including model validation against test data.
- Experience with motor mechanical and thermal design, CAD, drawings, tolerancing, and machining; ability to guide machinists and inspect components.
- Hands-on experience prototyping, testing, characterizing, and troubleshooting motors.
- Working knowledge of three-phase inverters, commutation, field-oriented control, and position feedback to support collaboration with drive and controls engineers.
- Experience transferring motors or electromechanical products to volume production, qualifying suppliers, and managing component quality and supply constraints.
- Experience designing small outrunner motors for UAV propulsion or direct-drive gimbal motors for precision positioning and stabilization.
- Experience reducing cogging torque, torque ripple, acoustic noise, and vibration through electromagnetic and mechanical design.
- Experience with winding equipment and processes, lamination fabrication, insulation systems, permanent-magnet handling and bonding, and rotor balancing.
- Experience scaling motor production to very high volumes, including automated assembly and testing, capacity planning, process capability, yield improvement, and supplier capacity development.
- Experience with encoder integration, motor and controller co-optimization, and system-level stabilization or propulsion testing.
- Experience with environmental qualification and accelerated life testing for aerospace, robotics, or other demanding applications.
- Experience using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for design optimization, test automation, and data analysis.
Skills
- Electromagnetic FEA tools (Ansys Maxwell, JMAG, Motor-CAD)
- CAD
- Python
- MATLAB
Location
- Torrance, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $180,000
Benefits
- Equity
- Competitive benefits
- Unlimited vacation
About the Company
- CHIRP Robotics is a well-funded seed-stage startup operating in stealth mode.
- The company aims to become a leading U.S. provider of modular intelligence and autonomous systems for a wide range of vehicles and applications.
- It has an impressive portfolio of patents on the hardware side and IP in software / algorithms.
- CHIRP’s CEO, a founding member of SpaceX, brings extensive technical expertise, a strong professional network, and significant business leadership experience.
Equal Opportunity
- Opportunity to work on innovative and complex systems.
- Hands-on experience with a broad range of engineering challenges.
- Collaborative and growth-oriented work environment.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.