Staff Power Electronics Engineer

About Odys

Our mission at Odys is simple - we build safe, sustainable aircraft to cut travel time in half on the world's busiest corridors. Our flagship aircraft Alta enables travelers to skip the big-airport hassle by using city helipads and local airports to connect cities less than 1,000 miles apart (approx 40% of flights). And on average cut CO2 by 76% on tens of billions of flight miles globally.

To get there, we start with our UAV called Laila for commercial logistics, medical transport, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and defense missions. We’re deploying aircraft with launch partners (Fiji Airways, Honeywell, Aramex, US Navy) beginning in 2026 and already have firm orders for aircraft under contract.

We’re a team of expert engineers from deep tech and aerospace that focus on fast iterations loops (completed transition flight faster than our peers) combined with mastery of the aircraft certification process. Previously, our team developed custom drones, brought multiple automotive platforms into production, and electrified transportation vehicles that magnetically levitate, that roll, that fly. Together, we’ve been learning, developing, building, testing, and preparing for this challenge our entire lives.

About the Role

Odys Aviation is pioneering next-generation hybrid-electric aircraft to make sustainable regional air travel a reality. As a Staff Power Electronics Engineer, you responsibilities will revolve around technical execution for propulsion power electronics across our UAV (Laila) and eVTOL (Alta) programs-turning architectural requirements into flight-worthy hardware, control algorithms, and validated simulation models.

This is a hands-on, full-stack power electronics role. You will lead the design and validation of SiC-based power stages while also developing and tuning the control algorithms and simulation models that bring them to life. You will drive hardware from concept through prototype and lab validation, build high-fidelity propulsion models in MATLAB/Simulink and PLECS, and stand up the MIL/SIL/HIL infrastructure to verify it all before it flies.

You will work alongside our Staff Propulsion Systems Architect, who owns the system-level architecture. Your focus is execution depth: translating that architecture into detailed designs, closing the gap between model and bench, and getting hardware through the lab and onto the aircraft. Working closely with embedded systems, battery/BMS, thermal, mechanical, and flight controls teams, you will be central to Odys’ powertrain systems deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-voltage (400–800 VDC) inverters, converters, motor controllers, power filters, and gate drivers for aircraft propulsion.

• Own end-to-end hardware development: switching-device characterization, double-pulse test setups, DC bulk capacitor optimization, thermal management, and fault-protection strategies.

• Lead hands-on lab validation, debugging, and system integration with propulsion and flight hardware through iterative prototyping.

• Translate system-level architecture and performance targets into detailed circuit designs, component selections, and layout guidelines; flag implementation risks and trade-offs back to the systems architect early.

• Design control algorithms for motor/generator drives, active rectifiers, and DC/DC converters; architect and tune discrete-time current/voltage/speed/torque loops (FOC with MTPA/MTPV, flux-weakening), SVPWM/DPWM, PLLs, and digital filters.

• Build and maintain high-fidelity propulsion models (machines, SiC inverters/rectifiers, DC-link, batteries, turbines/propulsors, sensors/actuators) in MATLAB/Simulink, Simscape, and PLECS; perform parameter identification from lab/rig data.

• Stand up MIL/SIL/HIL environments (Typhoon HIL / OPAL-RT / Speedgoat); create automated regression and fault-injection tests; release real-time model variants and close model-vs-bench gaps.

• Take algorithms from model to real-time DSP implementation; debug with