Staff Software Systems Engineer, Motor Controls
- Sensored and sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motors
- Advanced inverter pulse-width modulation, position and velocity estimation, current control and efficiency optimization
- Develop fault detection, isolation, and reconfiguration logic for safety critical systems
- Closed loop position control of simplex and duplex redundant servo actuation systems with redundant position sensors and multi-phase motors controlled from separate inverters
- Optimization of motor controls using MATLAB Simulink
- Develop wrappers and interfaces for the MATLAB Simulink code in C/C++
- Ensure inverter and motor systems meet performance requirements via controls algorithm development, implementation, Simulink simulation and hardware testing
- Oversee dynamometer testing and interpretation of data for controls development, validation and improvement
- Tuning and calibration of complete systems on dynamometers, on test stands, and on the aircraft
- Unit-tests for build environment, sub-system validation testing, integration testing, flight testing, processor/hardware in the loop testing
- Decompose system level requirements to software requirements
- Develop system level actuator models and integrate with inverters and servo controls for wholistic system level understanding of performance
- B.S degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant field and 10+ years of related technical experience (including mechanical, electrical, computer and robotics / mechatronics engineering)
- Experience with actuation systems and/or servo control on safety critical applications
- Experience developing embedded applications in C/C++, MATLAB Simulink model-based design for controls development
- Experience with basic electronics debugging tools: oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power analyzer
- Basic understanding of version control technologies
- Experience with processor/hardware in the loop (PIL/HIL) verification/debugging
- Experience creating mathematical models of servo systems for system identification, analyses and simulations
- Knowledge of electro-mechanical systems focusing on interactions between electrical and mechanical components in servo systems
- Ability to be onsite regularly in San Carlos, CA
- Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant field
- Technical experience with aerospace actuation and controls system development
- Knowledge of control system design and principles of feedback control including PID control and advanced control techniques and their applications in the servo systems
- Knowledge of real time bare-metal firmware development
- Experience with hard, real-time interrupt-driven software development
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