Electromechanical Controls Engineer (Electric Motor Specialist)
Core
Plan and conduct technical studies, experimental investigations, and verification activities for mission-critical control sensors and actuators (including electric motors) in spacecraft and launch vehicles.
Role type
Senior IC electromechanical controls engineer (electric motor specialist)
Builds
Control hardware components, sensor/actuator performance evaluations, and controller designs for defense, civil, and commercial space programs.
Domain
Aerospace / Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)
Required skills
Laboratory experimentation and test strategy development, control systems design, inertial sensors and actuators expertise, MATLAB/Simulink, dSPACE, LabVIEW, SolidWorks, C/C++, Python, electric motor modeling and simulation
Preferred skills
Electric motor design (BLDC, servo, stepper), electromagnetic design/analysis software, GPS receiver testing algorithms, real-time software development, launch vehicle payload control
Technologies
MATLAB/Simulink, dSPACE, LabVIEW, SolidWorks, C/C++, Python
Responsibilities
Conduct technical studies involving testing, evaluation, analysis, or simulation of control hardware components; Verify contractor designs and system performance; Supervise experimental investigations in the Mechatronics Research Laboratory; Interact with government customers, program management, and contractors; Communicate study results as a technical authority or primary investigator
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC