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Based in Ningbo, China, this individual leads motor hardware, power electronics, embedded control, system integration, validation, supplier development, and production readiness for global programs. The role works independently through cross-functional teams and has no direct reports. This position joins a long-standing American brand during rapid growth in China and will help establish a permanent engineering team in China that delivers safe, efficient, production-ready solutions globally.\n\n1. Lead architecture and technical direction for high-current BLDC and DC motor-drive systems.\n2. Define torque, speed, position, power, efficiency, thermal, acoustic, duty cycle, and life targets.\n3. Integrate motors with lithium-ion batteries, embedded controls, gearing, and mechanical loads.\n4. Select and optimize BLDC, brushed DC, and permanent-magnet synchronous motor architectures.\n5. Evaluate winding topology, turns, wire gauge, resistance, inductance, pole count, back-EMF, Kt, and Kv.\n6. Develop and tune six-step commutation, FOC, SVPWM, and current, torque, speed, or position loops.\n7. Develop or direct embedded C/C++ firmware using STM32, Arm, DSP, or similar motor-control platforms.\n8. Design and validate three-phase inverters, MOSFET stages, gate drivers, sensing, PWM, and PCB layouts.\n9. Define protection for overcurrent, short circuit, shoot-through, voltage faults, heat, stall, and locked rotor.\n10. Build prototype controller boards, inverter stages, sensing circuits, and test fixtures.\n11. 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