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LAT Aerospace Private

Power Electronics Engineer at LAT Aerospace Private (Bengaluru, India)

LAT Aerospace Private· Bengaluru, India·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

We’re Hiring: Power Electronics Engineer Full time | Core team LAT Aerospace | Aircraft

LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot, Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines. The Power Electronics Engineer role is a hands-on one spanning power conversion, power distribution, motor control, embedded hardware, and high-power electrical systems. You will take hardware from architecture and schematic design through PCB development, fabrication, testing, and integration.

What you’ll do

  • Design and develop power electronics for hybrid-electric powertrains, including rectifiers, power distribution board, PCUs, DC-DC converters, motor controllers/ESCs, and associated power boards.
  • Develop schematics, PCB layouts, power stages, gate drives, sensing, protection, and control interfaces.
  • Design and optimize power distribution architecture across generators, batteries, motors, and electrical loads.
  • Perform component selection, electrical sizing, thermal analysis, failure mode identification, and derating for aerospace applications.
  • Develop simulation models for converters, motor drives, power distribution, and system-level electrical architecture for appropriate software in loop simulations.
  • Lead prototype development including board bring-up, debugging, characterization, hardware validation and integration.
  • Design and implement protection, isolation, grounding, current/voltage sensing, fault detection, and safety mechanisms.
  • Develop test setups and instrumentation for power electronics characterization and system validation.
  • Diagnose hardware failures and drive rapid design iterations based on test results.
  • Document designs, test procedures, validation results, and engineering decisions.

What we’re looking for

  • 4+ years of professional experience in aerospace, EV, industrial, or other high-performance electrical systems.
  • Postgraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related field is preferred
  • Strong fundamentals in power conversion, rectification, switching circuits, and inverter systems.
  • Hands-on experience designing and debugging power electronics hardware from schematic through working prototypes.
  • Experience with rectifiers, DC-DC converters, inverters, motor controllers/ESCs, or power distribution systems.
  • Experience with power semiconductor devices, gate drives, magnetics, current/voltage sensing, and thermal management.
  • Strong PCB design experience, including multilayer boards and high-current/high-frequency layouts.
  • Experience with simulation tools such as PLECS, LTspice, PSIM, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent.
  • Familiarity with HV/LV safety, isolation, grounding, protection, EMI/EMC, and electrical fault handling.
  • Comfortable working directly with high-power hardware, oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies, and other test equipment.

Why LAT?

  • No hierarchy beyond strength of ideas.
  • Rapid hardware iteration culture.
  • Own the complete journey from engineering design to flight-ready hardware.

Why work at LAT Aerospace Private

  • Build from Scratch: Opportunity to work on ambitious, first-principles aerospace engineering across aircraft, engines, and autonomy – with rapid prototyping and flight testing.
  • Culture & Mission: Focus on solving hard problems for India, with a flat structure and ownership. The founders emphasize "build, break, and repeat" and seek engineers who want to "rewrite history." lat.com/careers
  • Work Location & Policy: Roles are based in Bangalore, India (on-site). The nature of hardware/aircraft development requires physical presence in workshops, labs, and test sites.
  • Team & Growth: 39 employees with strong technical depth; high growth trajectory (1416% YoY). Access to cutting-edge aerospace R&D.
  • Perks: Not explicitly detailed, but the environment is suited for engineers and scientists passionate about aerospace, propulsion, and defence independence.

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