GNC Engineer - Control Systems

About the position

As a GNC Engineer in Control Systems at Trimble Ag Industry Solutions, you will be part of the core development team responsible for designing automatic motion control systems algorithms from the ground up. Your work will involve developing and maintaining core algorithms to control steering and other features in off-highway industrial machinery such as tractors, combines, excavators, and dozers. You will utilize MATLAB/Simulink or C/C++ to model, develop, maintain algorithms, analyze and optimize vehicle performance, and integrate functionality into releasable products.

Responsibilities

• Design, development, and productization of control law algorithms
• Work with Matlab/Simulink utilizing model-based design (MBD)
• Utilize experience with sensor fusion and filter design for pose estimation
• Design signal conditioning and feedback loop compensation
• Development, characterization, and validation of non-linear vehicle dynamics plant models
• Evaluate algorithms in both simulation and target operating environments
• Support integration, deployment, and performance validation of algorithms on real-time hardware/operating systems
• Define the system/software architecture
• Foster ongoing testing and testability in building quality products

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrable experience with control algorithm development for dynamic physical systems
• A Master's Degree or PhD in an engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, GNC, Mechatronics, or related degree
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink Product Development
• Practical controls experience in automatic controls of off-highway industrial machinery
• Direct experience with test, verification, validation, and productization of algorithms
• Experience with requirements decomposition and management tools
• Experience with exploiting plant simulation tools throughout the product development process

Nice-to-haves

• 12+ years of applicable work experience
• State estimation (Kalman filters) development experience
• Experience leading small technical projects and project management
• Simulink auto-code generation
• Loosely/Tightly coupled GNSS+IMU state estimation
• Autonomous/Semi-autonomous vehicle control
• Experience with Systems Identification, Simscape, or similar plant modeling tools and concepts
• Safety-critical software development and certification
• HIL and SIL testing
• Proficiency in production-grade C/C++ software development
• Experience with ROS ecosystem
• Missile, ship, submarine, or autonomous vehicle guidance, navigation & control background
• Ability to travel (including international) up to 10% per year

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability insurance
• Time off plans and retirement plans
• Tax savings plans for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Bonus eligibility