Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Thermal

Responsibilities

• Create control and estimation algorithms for climate control, battery, powertrain, heat pump, refrigeration, and vehicle-computer thermal systems.
• Deliver high-quality C code in a real-time embedded environment.
• Write unit, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop test cases.
• Debug control algorithms with test and integration engineers at bench and vehicle level.
• Adapt or create reduced-order thermal-system models for control development and refinement.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineers to execute control strategies.
• Develop fault-detection and reaction strategies.
• Compare control algorithms quantitatively across cost, efficiency, performance, and complexity metrics.
• Monitor fleet telemetry and analyze data to improve software quality and identify new software features.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer science, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience developing control algorithms and applying them to physical systems.
• High proficiency in Python.
• Strong background in control theory, system dynamics, and model-based design.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
• Knowledge of electrical-engineering fundamentals, including circuit analysis and design.
• Familiarity with linear systems, state estimation, and observers is a plus.
• Familiarity with thermal-control algorithms and implementing them on embedded systems.
• Experience with refrigeration and HVAC systems, including compressors, heat exchangers, valves, sensors, charge, and oil management.
• Experience with automotive communication protocols and stacks such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, and UDS.
• Knowledge of microcontroller peripherals such as ADC, GPIO, PWM, and SPI, plus sensor and digital-signal-processing experience.
• Experience using data-management tools and fleet data to guide design.
• Proficiency in C and C++ and scripting in Python, Perl, Shell, or another common language.
• Experience developing thermal-system control algorithms using Python, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar modeling tools.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, or a similar system for tracking inputs and results.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription-drug coverage.
• Flexible family-care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off with the option to purchase additional vacation time.
• Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work four or more days per week.
• Visa sponsorship is available for this position.