Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer – Servo Drives

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Corporate - Mgmt Full-time Regular Indirect Rochester, NY, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Allient Inc. is in growth mode and currently seeking a Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer to join our team in Rochester, New York!

Own the hardware for our next generation of servo drives, from the first architecture study through prototype, validation, early customers, and transfer to production.

Allient-Rochester (formerly ORMEC Systems, Inc.), part of Allient Inc., designs servo drives, motion controllers, motors, and integrated automation for aerospace and defense, medical, semiconductor, e-mobility, logistics, packaging, and industrial automation customers.

Summary:

We are building a new family of embedded servo drives around GaN-based three-phase BLDC inverters and modern DSP/microcontroller control. You will be a hardware lead for that effort. That means researching the enabling technologies, defining the architecture and requirements, designing and bringing up the hardware, proving it works, and handing a robust design to manufacturing, working side by side with the firmware team throughout.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with real technical ownership. It suits an engineer who likes open-ended problems and the lab bench in equal measure.

Responsibilities:

• Define the architecture. Research and evaluate new technologies (GaN power stages, gate drive, current sensing, DSP/MCU control platforms) and turn what you learn into a hardware architecture and written requirements.
• Design the hardware. Take the power inverter, gate drive, sensing, protection, DC-link and control circuitry from concept to schematic in Altium, including component selection and design analysis. Work with layout on stack-up, grounding, thermal performance, and DFM/DFT.
• Bring it up. Lead prototype bring-up and root cause analysis with the firmware team, including the hardware/firmware interface.
• Prove it works. Write test plans and procedures, then characterize switching behavior, efficiency, thermal performance and EMI/EMC across operating conditions. Specify or build the test setups you need, and support safety and compliance testing.
• Support early customers. Help first customers integrate and troubleshoot the drive, and feed what you learn back into the design.
• Transfer to production. Own the hardware release package, support manufacturing and production test, and handle sustaining issues from the field.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 6+ years of electronics hardware development, including at least one product that went from requirements through production release for which you held significant hardware design responsibility.
• Hands-on experience designing, bringing up and debugging switching power stages such as motor-drive inverters or comparable converters, with a solid grasp of gate drive, switching losses, sensing and protection.
• Strong analog, digital and mixed-signal design skills, including microcontroller/DSP-based hardware and the interface between control and power circuits.
• Proficiency with Altium or a comparable ECAD tool, and practical PCB layout experience (stack-up, grounding, noise, signal integrity, thermal).
• Fluency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, current probes and power instrumentation.
• Experience writing requirements and planning and documenting hardware verification.
• Self-directed: you can take an open-ended problem, research it, propose a path, drive it to a result, and flag risks early.

Preferred Qualifications:

• GaN, SiC,…