Founding Motor Design & Electromagnetic Control Engineer

Founding Motor Design & Electromagnetic Control Engineer
Basic salary Up to £85,000 + Generous Stock Options
Location Reading – this is an onsite role

The Opportunity
KO2’s consultants have 19 years of experience placing engineers across start-ups and established businesses alike. In that time, we have never encountered an opportunity quite like this one. Our client is building something that has genuinely never been attempted before: a range of high-performance brushless motors operating at 1 kW to 15 kW across 6S to 14S voltage, manufactured in what will be the most advanced electronics and motor production facility in Europe, and designed through an AI-driven platform that sits at the heart of their engineering process.

This is not a start-up with a bold idea and no route to market. The founding team have built a Formula 1 team, founded a business valued at over one billion pounds, and includes an elite principal from one of the most celebrated British design institutions in the world. The commercial acumen, the capital backing, and the technical vision are all in place. What is unique and unprecedented here is that all three exist simultaneously, in one founding team.

The Role
As a founding hire, you will own electromagnetic motor architecture and motor control from end to end. You will design slot and pole configurations, winding topologies, magnet strategies, and rotor and stator geometry for compact, high-efficiency brushless motors. You will then design and validate the field-oriented control algorithms that run on those motors, closing the loop between the magnetic circuit and the controller in a way that most businesses leave to two separate teams in two separate rooms.

The product range sits at 1 kW to 15 kW across 6S to 14S battery voltage, compact, demanding, and with a design element that has never been brought to market before. You will use Motor-CAD or equivalent electromagnetic FEA, MATLAB/Simulink, and a HIL environment you will help build. The company’s AI platform and robotics-driven manufacturing facility mean your designs feed directly into a production system that is itself unlike anything currently operating in Europe.
Aerospace and defence experience is a strong advantage. The quality, reliability, and traceability standards of those sectors are the benchmark the business is working to.

What We Are Looking For
Five or more years of hands-on experience in electromagnetic motor design and FOC motor control for BLDC or PMSM applications. Proficiency in Motor-CAD, FEMM, JMAG, or equivalent. Fluency in MATLAB/Simulink and model-based design. Experience with HIL test environments and motor parameter identification. Winding design knowledge, conductor selection, turn count, topology trade-offs. A background in aerospace, defence, UAV, or high-reliability industrial applications is highly desirable but not essential. A PhD or degree in electrical engineering, electrical machines, or control engineering is preferred.

What This Role Will Do For You
There are very few roles in the UK, or in Europe, that will advance your technical and commercial standing as rapidly as this one. You will be working at the frontier of motor design, AI-driven manufacturing, robotics, and machine learning alongside engineers and entrepreneurs who have operated at the very highest levels of their respective fields. Your CV and your skill set will be in a different league if you get the chance to work for this company. The founding team equity on offer reflects the seriousness with which the business regards its earliest hires.

To apply, please send your CV to KO2. If you know someone who would be a strong fit for this role, exceptional referral fees are available, please get in touch with our team directly.

Apply or Refer a Colleague
Exceptional referral fees are paid. If you know a motor design or electromagnetic control engineer who would be right for this role, please contact KO2’s team. We reward great introductions generously.