Senior Controls Engineer

What you'll do

• Design and implement FOC, six-step commutation, and direct torque control algorithms for BLDC and PMSM motors.
• Develop sensorless rotor position estimation techniques for applications where Hall sensors or encoders are not viable.
• Build high-fidelity motor and inverter plant models in MATLAB/Simulink including magnetic saturation and thermal coupling.
• Execute SIL and HIL testing to validate controller performance and fixed-point scaling against requirements.
• Implement motor control firmware in C on microcontrollers with hard real-time constraints and deterministic execution.
• Configure and optimize motor control peripherals including PWM timers, ADC synchronization, and overcurrent protection.
• Develop communication interfaces for CAN, SPI, UART, and RS-485 for command and telemetry.
• Implement fault detection, diagnosis, and safe-state management for overcurrent, over-voltage, and sensor loss.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience designing and implementing motor control algorithms for BLDC or PMSM motors.
• Strong foundation in classical and modern control theory, including PID tuning, frequency-domain analysis, and state estimation.
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Simulink, and PLECS for control design, motor modeling, and auto-code generation.
• Deep experience writing production-quality embedded code on microcontrollers with hard real-time motor control loops.
• Working knowledge of power electronics, including three-phase inverter operation, PWM schemes, and DC bus dynamics.
• Familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and RS-485.
• U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data (ITAR / EAR).