Senior Controls Engineer

About the role

The Engineer Senior - Systems & Controls is a highly motivated individual contributor who will provide design, development and integration support for safety-critical real-time control systems for unmanned ground vehicles. This individual will work in a collaborative environment with a cross-functional team to support prototype and production programs.

Responsibilities

• Under supervision, perform software development, hardware selection, investigations, and systems engineering tasks according to industry standards and processes.
• Develop and peer review safety-critical controls software for unmanned and optionally manned ground vehicles based on requirements.
• Perform failure analyses using test data and recommend issue resolutions.
• Develop, analyze, and maintain system architecture models and requirements.
• Conduct software and integration testing in simulation and real-world environments.
• Support supplier and customer tests, to include off-site travel.
• Maintain configuration management of software source code and artifacts.
• Responsible for a project or part of a project of limited complexity. May be responsible for managing multiple projects.
• Prepare technical documentation, reports, and presentations.
• Participate in cost studies, project time estimation, technical proposals, and feasibility studies.
• Maintain effective communication with suppliers, internal and external customers, and outside resources concerning technical subject matter.
• Process engineering information through CMMI level 3 procedures and software safety process.
• Establish priorities for work and coordinate tasks within large development programs.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular attendance is required.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, software, computer, controls, etc.) or computer sciences with three (3) or more years of related experience.
• Experience in programming embedded controllers in C/C++, model based / Simulink, and/or PLC languages such as Structured Text.
• Model-based software development in MATLAB/Simulink environment.
• Experience writing software requirements.
• Experience writing and executing software unit tests.
• Travel up to 20% of the time.
• Experience with version control systems.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to obtain U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Systems Engineering processes and SysML (Cameo Systems Modeler, MagicDraw).
• Experience with embedded vehicle system controls with model-based software in MATLAB/Simulink environment.
• Experience with vehicle dynamic related features (ABS, ESC, etc) or active safety features (AEB, forward collision warning, etc).
• 3+ years of safety-critical software development experience.
• Experience with authoring and managing requirements, version control, release management, and peer review systems and processes.
• Familiarity with safety standards such as MIL-STD-882E, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, UL 4600.
• Experience in developing software for vehicle control systems, either on-road or off-highway.
• Experience in developing networked communications (CAN Bus, Ethernet, V2V).
• Familiarity with vehicle dynamics, mechanics, and electrical systems.
• Experience with Agile software development processes.
• Excellent software system design skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.