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PERFORMANCE & VALIDATION ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (M/F/D)

Your mission

As Performance & Validation Electrical Engineer you will be responsible for all electrical aspects of the performance of our products. You will:

  • Test and analyze the quality of motor control, including commutation, PWM generation and current control as well as the inverter hardware and current sensors related to that
  • Create the test methods, build up and improve the lab environment and tools
  • Come up with ideas for future product features and improvements and prototype/test them on the dynamometer.

ABOUT THE PRODUCT PERFORMANCE TEAM

Given all the excellence and passion that our engineers have designed into our products in their respective fields, we as team Product Performance care about “the whole thing”: Making hardware, software, motors, encoders, gears, loads, mechanics work together seamlessly as a system. We close the control loop as a whole, in terms of concepts, analysis, simulations and verification testing. All this is to provide our customers with the speed, torque, cycle times, precision and dynamic frequency responses they need in their most demanding applications.

In this highly interdisciplinary environment we are looking for a Performance & Validation Electrical Engineer with particular expertise in electrical machines, inverters and testing / validation.

Your Profile

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • B.Sc or M.Sc in electrical engineering or related field
  • Good analytical skills, combined with hands-on mentality
  • Expertise and/or track record in one or several of the following:
    • Electrical Machines, ideally PMSM / BLDC
    • Inverters, power stages, PWM
    • Commutation
    • Current Measurement, dq current control
  • Expertise and / or track record in one or several of the following:
    • Test & Validation
    • Motor testbenches / dynamometers
    • Measurement Technology
    • Signal Processing

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with Matlab or Matlab / Simulink 
  • Experience with Rapid Control Prototyping Systems like Speedgoat or dSPACE
  • Fluent in English and German
  • Experience with field buses, particularly EtherCAT
  • Basic understanding of robotics

Benefits

  • Full-time (40 hours/week), permanent contract with 30 days paid vacation
  • Flexible working hours and working location when life gets in the way
  • Small international team in start-up mode, with lots of opportunities for career advancement
  • Annual performance and salary re-negotiation to keep your compensation relevant
  • Highly competent colleagues who are experts in their field and who are happy to help you learn and grow
  • Company pension plan
  • Birthday vouchers
  • Company support for gym memberships through Qualitrain
  • Job electro bike plans
  • Beautiful countryside around the office at our location in Schönaich, Germany
  • Regular team building events like skiing, boot camps, sports, Christmas parties, and BBQ every Friday .
  • Spouses and kids are welcome to join for BBQ on Friday.
  • A sandbox out back “for the kids”, but we recognize that age is just a number
  • A field out back where we like to kick the ball around. Some of us are professional-level, but we prefer to pursue our engineering passions.
  • Modern office facilities with an engineering lounge with football table and bean bag chairs
  • Shared apartment (WG) upon availability
  • Visa sponsorship, if required


Interested? We look forward to receiving your application.

Hi! We’re about 60 experts actively looking to expand our talent. 

Our engineering team is from all walks of life, countries, and cultures. Our diversity drives our creativity, and we look forward to having your unique outlook shape our product.

Working hours and location are flexible at Synapticon, because working families need that. Although you may need to be beside your robot for much of the day, we understand that sometimes getting away from the problem to think is the better approach.

Our unique SoC microprocessor has a massive amount of processing power, available to build unique, real world physics-defying algorithms right into the robot joint. We strive to use the best technology for the problems we are working to solve.

About the author

Marketing Manager at Synapticon