Staff Systems Engineer - Motor Control & Drive (8284)

$75,000 - $128,000/Yr

Qorvo Texas - Richardson, TX

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Richardson, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Systems Engineer for Motor Control & Drive at Qorvo Texas LLC is responsible for defining and supporting new motor control and drive solutions across various markets, including industrial, consumer, and automotive sectors. This role requires a hands-on approach to system-level solution development, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and the generation of technical documentation to support product development and customer engagement.

Responsibilities

• Define system level solutions and drive development taking inputs from customers, application engineers and sales teams
• Work with customers, marketing, and sales teams to define motor control & driver solutions including product architecture, specifications, system requirements, and product competition analysis
• Collaborate with IC design teams to develop internal specifications for new products
• Work with test and characterization engineers to develop a thorough characterization and production test solution
• Generate datasheets, user guides, application notes, customer presentations, white papers, and training material

Requirements

• MSEE degree in electrical, mechanical, computer, medical or physics and 10+ years related work experience
• Product definition experience with track record
• Control systems knowledge for motor drive, motor control, power conversion, and wide band-gap applications (SiC & GaN)
• Experience in applications with BLDC/PMSM motors for industrial, automotive, and consumer applications
• Familiar with Field Oriented Control and Trapezoidal BLDC/PMSM motor control algorithms
• Deep understanding of gate driver solutions for 3 phase BLDC motors
• Experience with DC/DC power conversion using switching regulators for isolated and non-isolated topologies
• PCB Design and layout (Altium), Mathematical and circuit simulation (Matlab, Simulink, SPICE)
• Attention to detail, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate complex technical concepts to different audiences with varying level of technical understanding
• Experience with microcontrollers is a plus, especially Arm Cortex M series including modules such as ADC, PLL, Oscillators, I2C, SPI, UART, and Flash
• Microcontroller firmware development experience also a plus

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with microcontrollers
• Microcontroller firmware development experience