Senior PC Software Engineer

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At EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives.

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Based in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.

Together, we are shaping the future.

About POWERTECH

POWERTECH is a center of excellence for propulsion technologies, specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of combustion engines, expendable turbojet engines, and turbofan engines for a wide range of aerospace, defence, and autonomous applications, including fixed- and rotary-wing UAVs and other advanced platforms.

• Develop power electronics architectures for motor drive and motor generator units (MGU).
• Design inverter, rectifier, and bridge stages for PMSM, BLDC, and brushed DC (BDC) machines.
• Design gate driver, protection, and isolation circuits for high-power switching stages.
• Design starter/generator and alternator power conversion, rectification, and regulation circuits.
• Select power semiconductors (MOSFET, IGBT, SiC/GaN) and perform switching/conduction loss and derating analysis.
• Design magnetics (inductors, transformers, current sensing) and DC-link/EMI filter stages.
• Perform thermal design, heatsink sizing, and cooling analysis for power circuits.
• Design current/voltage sensing, isolation, and feedback circuits for closed-loop control.
• Perform schematic design and high-current / high-voltage PCB layout activities.
• Perform simulation and analysis (LTspice, PLECS, PSIM, Simulink) and design verification.
• Design hardware considering EMC/EMI and environmental qualification requirements.
• Plan and support power stage bring-up, integration, and qualification tests.
• Work in coordination with system, software, electrical machine, test, and certification teams.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in power electronics and motor drive hardware design.
• Strong knowledge of switching converter topologies (buck, boost, flyback, half/full bridge, three-phase inverter).
• Strong knowledge of electrical machines such as alternators, generators, starters, PMSM, BLDC, and BDC motors.
• Experience with gate driver design, dead-time management, and short-circuit/overcurrent protection.
• Experience with power semiconductor selection, loss calculation, and thermal derating.
• Experience with magnetics design and high-current PCB layout practices.
• Experience with schematic design and PCB layout tools such as Altium Designer, Mentor PADS, etc.
• Experience with power electronics simulation tools such as LTspice, PLECS, PSIM, or Simulink.
• Experience with EMC/EMI-aware design practices for switching power stages.
• Familiarity with environmental qualification standards such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, and RTCA/DO-160.
• Knowledge of RTCA/DO-254 and requirements traceability practices.

• Experience with ECU or MGU power electronics hardware development. Experience with electrical machine design and analysis tools (Motor-CAD, JMAG, Ansys Maxwell, Altair Flux).
• Familiarity with sensorless control, resolver/encoder interfaces, and field-oriented control hardware needs.
• Familiarity with aerospace/defense hardware development and certification practices.

Launched in November 2019, the UAE's EDGE is one of the world's leading advanced technology groups, established to develop agile, bold and disruptive solutions for defence and beyond, and to be a catalyst for change and transformation. It is dedicated to bringing breakthrough innovations, products, and services to market with greater speed and efficiency, to position the UAE as a leading global hub for future industries, and to creating clear paths within the sector for the next generation of highly skilled talent to thrive.

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