Motor Controller Electrical Engineer

About the role

The role This is the seat for an engineer who has already brought up a motor drive or inverter — and wants the next one to fly. You will not check schematics for a living. You will own boards and subsystems on Taurus-class controllers: gate drive, sense path, aux supplies, layout revisions, bring-up, and test. The senior owns architecture. You own execution that ships. US-assembled in Virginia. Blue Ridge outside the lab door. This position may require prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate levels of noise, dust, and fumes in production and lab areas.

Responsibilities

• Design and revise Taurus sections: gate drive, current/voltage sensing, housekeeping supplies, connectors, protection.
• Capture schematics and drive layout constraints for high-dv/dt, creepage, and thermal performance.
• Bring up prototypes — first power, functional checks, load, thermal and EMI debug — with lab and firmware.
• Write test procedures, support production, and close bench and field issues.
• Learn the full 20–405 V Taurus family so you can grow from a subsection to a complete controller.

Requirements

• 3–5 years on power electronics, motor drives, inverters, or high-reliability mixed-signal boards.
• Working knowledge of MOSFETs or SiC FETs, gate drivers, current-sense amps, isolated supplies, PWM stages.
• Schematic capture and the ability to read — and argue with — a layout (Altium preferred).
• Hands-on lab habits. You have used a differential probe without asking which button is auto-set.
• BSEE or equivalent.
• Bonus: BLDC/PMSM, FOC literacy, CAN, IP-rated packaging, aerospace or EV powertrain.

Why Allocortech

Fifty-plus people, revenue already tripled, hardware already on vehicles. Fastest path in this company to becoming the engineer who signs off a 400 V SiC inverter.

Benefits

• top tier medical HMO, PPO & a 100% company-sponsored HSA plan option
• dental and vision coverage
• unlimited PTO
• 11 paid holidays per year
• flexible spending and dependent care savings accounts
• paid parental leave
• disability insurance
• life insurance
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan with company match

Eligibility for benefits may vary based on employment status; please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role. Benefit programs are subject to change at the company’s discretion.