Motor / Electromechanical Applications Engineer, Vandrel Industries, Inc.

Interplay•New York, NY

About The Position

Vandrel is rebuilding America's high-performance magnet wire supply chain. We design and manufacture PEEK-insulated copper conductor in modular micro-factories, producing the wire that goes into the motors, transformers, and power systems that matter most: defense and aerospace platforms, EV traction, and grid and stationary storage. Today, insulated magnet wire is produced by a short list of European and Asian suppliers. That is a problem for every US program that needs higher voltage, higher temperature, or higher power density. Our team is small, senior, and hands-on, and we are closing that gap.

Requirements

5+ years in motor design, electrical machines, power electronics, or traction drive engineering.
Fluency in winding design and insulation systems (magnet wire, enamel, impregnation, slot liner, phase paper).
Strong grasp of thermal and dielectric constraints in high-power motors.
Comfort across the interface between material, motor, and system: you move easily between polymer chemistry and bus voltage.
Customer-facing chops: you can run a technical review with a customer’s chief motor engineer and walk out with a next step.
Bias toward shipping.

Nice To Haves

Experience with defense or aerospace motor programs, 800V+ systems, or highspeed motors (above 20,000 rpm) is a plus.

Responsibilities

Translate Vandrel wire’s material properties (dielectric strength, temperature rating, thinner insulation, higher slot fill) into motor-level performance deltas customers care about: continuous torque, peak power, thermal headroom, bus voltage, eLiciency, partial discharge life.
Work directly with design teams at defense drone and autonomy primes, aerospace motor programs, EV OEMs, industrial drives, and gridscale power electronics to get Vandrel wire designed into their systems.
Quantify the gain Vandrel wire delivers in a given motor topology through thermal, electromagnetic, and dielectric modeling.
Own the technical dialogue on slot fill, insulation system compatibility, and hairpin versus distributed winding tradeoLs with customer engineering teams.
Shape the initial product line based on real customer use cases: conductor size, insulation thickness, build class, and temperature class. Feed requirements into the process and materials roadmap.
Support customer qualification (HIPOT, partial discharge, thermal aging, fluid compatibility, thermal shock, vibration). Partner with process engineering to reproduce failures and harden the product.
Build and present the narrative for why Vandrel wire wins at the chemistry, motor, and system levels. Represent Vandrel at customer reviews, technical conferences, and design-in sessions.