USASenior Controls Engineer
3 нед. назад
180k–215k USD / yearUSASeniorHybrid
ethercatcancontrol-loop benchmarkingmotion planningembedded engineering
Responsible for owning control quality across robotic products ensuring smooth motion, tracking accuracy, and high-fidelity impedance control, working onsite.
Обязанности
- We’re looking for a seasoned controls engineer to own control quality across our robotic products through best-in-class, modern engineering practices. In this role, you will operate at the boundary between hardware and software — the layer between electrical engineering and motion planning — working closely with electrical, firmware, and higher-level software teams to deliver smooth, reliable, and precisely characterized motion.
- This role is onsite at our Glen Cove, NY headquarters a minimum of 3 days per week.
- Own control performance across our products: smooth motion, tracking accuracy, and high-fidelity impedance control
- Design and own control-loop benchmarking and validation — loop rates, synchronization jitter, tracking error — across communication architectures such as CAN and EtherCAT
- Analytically model in-house actuator Motor -> Gearbox -> Feedback Plants, verify model through physical testing, and determine appropriate Plant tolerance bands for production that maintains model fidelity.
- Implement and document safety-rated monitoring and stop functions to certification rigor
- Ensure maximal servo performance while maintaining stability and rejecting disturbances and suppressing vibration under a broad range of dynamic loading conditions.
- Debug complex system-level issues where root cause may span software, firmware, electrical, or component behavior
- Build test and diagnostic tooling for tuning, hardware characterization, and fault injection
- Act as a technical bridge between hardware and software, advising leadership on technical strategy and mentoring engineers across teams
Требования
- We’re looking for engineers who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful — excited to apply deep controls expertise to a new class of robotic products.
Будет плюсом
- Experience with modern control techniques like MPC
- Experience with sensors, especially encoders, and sensor fusion
- Experience interfacing with robotic motion planning systems
- Electrical and board-level experience — comfort with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DMMs to diagnose timing, signaling, and electrical issues
Другое
- Standard Bots’ mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users.
- Our robotics, vision, and networking platform is the basis for our company’s ambitious goals — and a platform of such magnitude requires a deep investment in extensibility, simplicity, and reliability.
- Control systems and embedded engineering are the basis of the entire company’s mission. The foundations this team builds empower not only the company, but entire industries.
- The Controls & Firmware group focuses on foundational technologies including motor and actuator control, embedded communications, system health monitoring/logging, and hardware bring-up.
- MCUs: STM32
- Languages: C / C++, MATLAB/Simulink
- RTOS: FreeRTOS or similar
- Communications: CAN, EtherCAT
- Supporting Systems: Linux, modern CI/CD tooling
- Controls Depth: Strong classical controls fundamentals —analytical and heuristic tuning, plant and controller modelling, gain and phase margin analysis, bandwidth modelling and testing — along with real-time signal processing and filtering
- Cross-Domain Fluency: Enough understanding of firmware, electrical, and mechanical systems to find and resolve issues at the borders between them
- Experience: 5+ years of proven experience modelling control systems, tuning control loops on real-world systems, and validating models through physical experiments on benchtop equipment
- Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
- Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
- Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve incumbent systems