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About the role
Comfort across the interface between material, motor, and system: you move easily between polymer chemistry and bus voltage. Customer-facing chops: you can run a technical review with a customer’s chief motor engineer and walk out with a next step.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in motor design, electrical machines, power electronics, or traction drive engineering
- Fluency in winding design and insulation systems (magnet wire, enamel, impregnation, slot liner, phase paper)
- Strong grasp of thermal and dielectric constraints in high-power motors
- Comfort across the interface between material, motor, and system: you move easily between polymer chemistry and bus voltage
- Customer-facing chops: you can run a technical review with a customer’s chief motor engineer and walk out with a next step
- Experience with defense or aerospace motor programs, 800V+ systems, or highspeed motors (above 20,000 rpm) is a plus
More about this role
Vandrel is rebuilding America's high-performance magnet wire supply chain. We design and manufacture PEEK-insulated copper conductor in modular micro-factories, producing the wire that goes into the motors, transformers, and power systems that matter most: defense and aerospace platforms, EV traction, and grid and stationary storage.
Today, insulated magnet wire is produced by a short list of European and Asian suppliers. That is a problem for every US program that needs higher voltage, higher temperature, or higher power density. Our team is small, senior, and hands-on, and we are closing that gap.
Bridge Material to System: Translate Vandrel wire’s material properties (dielectric strength, temperature rating, thinner insulation, higher slot fill) into motor-level performance deltas customers care about: continuous torque, peak power, thermal headroom, bus voltage, eLiciency, partial discharge life.
Run Customer Engineering: Work directly with design teams at defense drone and autonomy primes, aerospace motor programs, EV OEMs, industrial drives, and gridscale power electronics to get Vandrel wire designed into their systems.
Build Performance Models: Quantify the gain Vandrel...
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