Sr. Staff Engineer, Controls

​Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop solutions for fuel cell systems focused around process control and optimal system performance

• Propose enhancements, optimizations, and failure analysis to existing control strategies
• Support simulation design and modeling of sub-systems with a data driven approach
• Develop control logic for fuel cell systems, including power management, gas flow control, temperature regulation, and safety interlocks.
• Develop and program PLCs and HMIs, including debugging, testing and troubleshooting of existing and new systems.
• Utilize simulation tools like MATLAB to design and test control algorithms before implementation.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate control systems with various components of the fuel cell system.
• Identify and implement improvements to control strategies for enhanced efficiency and reliability.

Skills Required:

• 8+ years’ experience in system automation and energy system development preferred
• Good hands-on systems integration experience, troubleshooting, and start-up and commissioning of equipment into product development environment
• Excellent knowledge of MATLAB and simulation environment
• Experience with data analysis in Python or MATLAB
• Experience with C/Python software development and embedded coding
• Experience with version control software GitHub/GitLab preferred
• Experienced in setup and maintenance of TCP/IP, Serial communication, and industrial network protocols, such as Modbus, CAN, DeviceNet, Profibus or EtherNet/IP
• Experience in developing model predictive control
• Experience in porting algorithms to embedded systems and optimizing code
• Understanding of diagnostic techniques for system components
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, production-oriented environment.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, embedded systems, control systems, Instrumentation or a related field