Senior Technical Lead - Permanent Magnetics Design and Analysis

Senior Tech Lead – Magnetics

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Provide technical leadership for permanent magnet design, characterization, and optimization of magnetic products.

• Lead electromagnetic design, analysis, and selection of permanent magnets including NdFeB, SmCo, Alnico, and ferrites.

• Perform magnetic circuit modeling, hysteresis analysis, flux density simulations, and field-strength calculations using advanced tools.

• Operate and utilize all magnetics laboratory equipment including permeameters, flux meters, gauss meters, coercimeters, Helmholtz coils, magnetic field mappers, and associated tooling.

• Define and execute magnet validation protocols including B-H curve measurement, coercivity, flux mapping, temperature dependence, demagnetization tests, and long-term stability assessments.

• Develop new company standards for permanent magnet components used in our products. Provide design guides for engineers involved in products using permanent magnetic components.

• Collaborate with mechanical and electronics engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of magnets into sensors and actuator assemblies.

• Conduct magnetic material characterization, supplier evaluation, incoming inspection strategy, and reliability studies for permanent magnets.

• Drive R&D initiatives focused on new magnet materials, improved magnetic circuit efficiency, and performance enhancements.

• Stay aware of new developments permanent magnet field.

• Carry out detailed root-cause analysis for magnet-related issues such as degradation, corrosion, thermal instability, magnetic drift, or assembly misalignment.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation including magnetic specifications, test results, calibration records, and analysis reports.

• Support certification activities by ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards for magnetics, sensors, and industrial safety.

• Guide junior engineers and cross-functional teams through magnetic design principles, lab equipment usage, and analytical techniques.

 

 

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Master’s or PhD in Physics (Preferred), Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline with specialization in magnetics.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in permanent magnet design, magnetic materials, or applied magnetics engineering.

• Strong expertise in magnetic theory, hysteresis behavior, B-H loop analysis, temperature effects, and magnet selection.

• Strong understanding of magnetic loss mechanisms such as hysteresis, eddy currents, dynamic losses, and temperature‑dependent demagnetization.

• Hands-on experience with magnet test equipment such as permeameters, fluxmeters, gaussmeters, coercimeters, Helmholtz coils, and magnetic field mappers.

• Proficiency with magnetic simulation tools such as ANSYS Maxwell, JMAG, Simcenter MAGNET, or equivalent.

• Knowledge of magnet manufacturing processes including sintering, coating, machining tolerances, and material grading.

• Strong collaboration skills with mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing teams for magnet integration.

• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

• Experience with sensors, actuators, or industrial magnetic products is highly desirable.

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Experience working with magnetic switch technologies.

• Familiarity with corrosion protection, magnet aging behavior, and long-term drift analysis.

• Exposure to magnetic calibration standards and field uniformity test systems.

• Familiarity with integrating magnetic simulation results into system‑level models (Simulink, Simscape, or multi‑domain solvers).

• Experience working on magnetic simulations for industrial sensors, actuators, or safety products.

• Ability to convert high level ideas into practical 

• High level of understanding of magnetic with hands on product problem solving with hands on experience

• Expect to spend 40% to 50% time on lab testing

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Experience Level

Senior Level