Design the motors and actuators we ship — then work out what we should build next.
Atlas Motion Systems designs and builds outrunner brushless DC motors for drones and UAVs, and we are extending that capability into actuators for robotics. We are a lean engineering team that takes hardware from first principles through to production, and everything we ship is designed in-house.
The role
A senior individual contributor across both platforms we build — drone brushless DC motors and robotic actuators — plus the research that decides what comes after them. Day to day you are a design engineer on shipping product.
Alongside that you carry the research brief: investigating novel architectures and establishing, with evidence, which of them deserve to become products. Small team, fast-moving, real hardware. We are looking for engineers who take things apart to understand how they tick, who reason from physics first, and who flag uncertainty rather than guess.
What you will do
- Design our outrunner brushless DC motors — slot and pole selection, windings, magnets, rotor, air gap, and bearings.
- Own the electromagnetic and thermal design, and correlate every model against measured data.
- Characterise what you design on the dyno — torque constant, efficiency, losses, and no-load NVH.
- Design robotic joint actuators: motor, transmission, output bearing, feedback, and housing.
- Investigate novel motor and actuator architectures, and report honestly on which are worth pursuing.
- Produce release-ready drawings, and design for the processes we actually have.
What we are looking for
- 5+ years designing electric machines, actuators, or precision rotating machinery, including one product taken to production.
- Electric machine design — slot and pole combinations, windings, magnets, air gap, and the thermal limits that set continuous rating.
- FEMM or comparable electromagnetic FEA, plus hands-on dyno characterisation.
- Gearbox design or qualification, and bearing selection for real moment and radial loads.
- SolidWorks and FEA across structural, modal, and thermal.
- Engineering drawings, GD&T, and tolerance stack-up analysis.
- Python for modelling, test automation, and data analysis.
- A research instinct: you can take an open question, design the experiment that answers it, and report what you actually found rather than what you hoped for.
Nice to have
- Robotic joint actuators — industrial arms, collaborative robots, legged platforms, or humanoids.
- Strain-wave, cycloidal, or planetary gearboxes designed in-house rather than specified from a catalogue.
- Outrunner topologies, concentrated windings, or high pole count machines.
- Drone or UAV propulsion.
- Published research or patents in electric machines, actuation, or robotics.
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Free parking
- Health insurance
- On-site parking
- Promotion to permanent employee
- Staff meals provided
Work Location: In person
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