About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Embedded Control Engineer – Motor Drives to help develop a high-performance embedded control platform for next-generation electric drive and motion-control systems.

This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of Motor Control, Embedded Systems, Power Electronics, and Real-Time Software.

The engineer will work closely with the hardware and controls teams to design, develop, tune, and validate a deterministic, scalable, and reusable motor-control platform that is fully owned in-house.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to go beyond integrating vendor SDKs and reference firmware and instead take ownership of the core motor-control architecture.

Key Responsibilities

- Develop, implement, and optimize Field-Oriented Control (FOC) / Vector Control algorithms for high-performance electric motor drives.
- Design and architect real-time embedded firmware for STM32, TI C2000, or equivalent microcontroller platforms.
- Develop high-frequency control loops for torque, current, velocity, and position control.
- Configure and optimize PWM generation, ADC triggering, synchronized sampling, dead-time handling, and inverter switching.
- Interface with current sensors, voltage sensors, temperature sensors, Hall sensors, incremental encoders, absolute encoders, and other feedback devices.
- Develop rotor position and velocity estimation and feedback-processing algorithms.
- Perform motor parameter identification, controller tuning, and performance optimization.




- Develop robust embedded firmware in C/C++ with emphasis on deterministic execution and maintainable architecture.
- Design firmware layers for motor control, communication, diagnostics, configuration, fault handling, and system monitoring.
- Develop and maintain communication interfaces using CAN and CAN-FD.
- Contribute toward future industrial communication integration including EtherCAT.
- Perform motor-controller board bring-up and peripheral validation.
- Debug issues across hardware, firmware, sensing, power electronics, and control systems.
- Perform commissioning, control-loop tuning, performance characterization, and system validation.
- Develop fault-detection and protection mechanisms for conditions such as overcurrent, overvoltage, undervoltage, overtemperature, encoder failure, stall, and communication faults.
- Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, CAN tools, and other laboratory equipment for system-level debugging.
- Work closely with power electronics, mechanical, controls, and robotics teams to optimize complete machine behaviour.
- Participate in architectural decisions for a reusable and scalable motor-drive control platform.
- Contribute to the development of core motor-control IP and engineering standards.

Required SkillsThe candidate should have solid fundamentals and practical experience in:




- Embedded C / C++
- Field-Oriented Control (FOC)
- Vector Control
- Motor-control algorithms
- Control theory
- Power electronics
- Real-time embedded systems
- Firmware architecture
- PWM and ADC synchronization
- Current and voltage sensing
- Encoder and position-feedback systems
- CAN / CAN-FD communication
- Motor-drive commissioning and tuning
- Hardware debugging and board bring-up

Preferred Technical ExperienceExperience with one or more of the following would be highly valuable:
- STM32 microcontrollers
- TI C2000 digital signal controllers
- ARM Cortex-M architectures
- PMSM / BLDC / AC motor control
- Current, velocity, and position control loops
- Space Vector PWM (SVPWM)
- Clarke and Park transformations
- PI/PID controller tuning
- Sensorless motor-control techniques
- Resolver or encoder interfaces
- Fixed-point and floating-point control implementation
- DMA, timers, interrupts, ADCs, SPI, UART, and other MCU peripherals
- Bootloaders and firmware update mechanisms
- CANopen or custom CAN protocols
- EtherCAT
- Functional safety concepts for motor-drive systems
- EMI/EMC considerations in motor-control electronics
- Git and structured firmware-development workflows

What We Are Looking ForWe are looking for engineers who are comfortable working beyond SDKs, reference code, and vendor libraries. You should be able to understand and debug the complete drive system:

Power Stage → Sensing → Control Algorithm → Firmware → Communication → Motor → Machine Behaviour

📌 Embedded Control Engineer – Motor Drives (Chennai)
🏢 SURINOVA
📍 Chennai