Control Systems Engineer

About the role

The Digital Ag Innovation Lab partners with leading agricultural companies to imagine, design, and deploy next-generation technologies for agriculture. Our team works at the intersection of applied engineering, industry collaboration, and the land-grant mission, moving ideas from concept to prototype to field deployment and ultimately into industry adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead system architecture and integration of advanced digital agriculture platforms, including sensing, automation, and control systems for real-time vehicle applications.
• Design, develop, and optimize multi-sensor data acquisition and processing pipelines to support control system development, performance analysis, and data-driven decision-making.
• Lead development of embedded control software and machine automation systems for agricultural machinery.
• Establish and execute scalable test and validation strategies across lab and field environments that reflect real-world operating conditions.
• Translate emerging technologies into functional prototypes and deployable solutions aligned with industry needs.
• Lead a cross-functional engineering team to deliver complex projects with clear milestones, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop technical documentation, scopes of work, and deliverables for external partners and stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture focused on technical excellence, innovation, and accountability.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing and integrating complex hardware-software systems for vehicle dynamics and controls, from modeling and simulation through embedded deployment, lab and field validation, and extraction of meaningful performance metrics.
• Strong project management, communication, and leadership skills when collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, industry partners, and externally funded engineering projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years related experience.

Skills

• Experience working with sensing, computing, and connected technologies used in modern agricultural equipment.
• Experience in agricultural equipment, off-highway machinery, robotics, or precision ag systems.
• Experience commercializing applied engineering solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers in fast-paced development environments.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and work-life benefits, including medical and dental, retirement benefits including defined benefit and defined contribution plans, generous vacation, holiday, and sick time and leave plans, onsite childcare, life insurance and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, various voluntary benefits and discounts, employee assistance program, wellbeing program.

Pay

Commensurate with qualifications.

Schedule

Full time.