Space Propulsion Control Systems Engineer

The Exploration Company; Bordeaux; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

The Exploration Company is seeking a Control System and Model-Based Design Engineer to advance MIL/SIL/HIL verification for Nyx engine control software. You will implement robust control strategies and real-time algorithms for thrust and valve actuation in a safety-critical environment.

You'll collaborate with propulsion and software teams to mature the engine control application from design and simulation to test data analysis and in-flight readiness.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent in control systems, aerospace, electrical, mechanical, robotics, or related field.
• Practical experience developing functions in MATLAB/Simulink.
• Good understanding of feedback control, system dynamics, stability, filtering, and controller tuning.
• Experience implementing and testing control or embedded logic for a real physical system.
• Ability to analyze logs, simulation results, and test data to understand system behaviour and improve the design.
• Experience with state machines, mode logic, diagnostics, calibration, validation, or production-style Simulink models would be highly appreciated.
• Familiarity with state estimation, system identification, optimization or robust control would be a strong plus.
• Experience with MIL, SIL, HIL, automatic code generation, or embedded control workflows would be appreciated.
• Experience in automotive, aerospace, propulsion, robotics, energy, industrial automation, or another safety‑critical dynamic system would be highly relevant.

Responsibilities

• Design, tune, implement, and validate closed-loop control functions for fluidic systems.
• Develop Simulink functions for control logic, sequencing, state machines, mode management, enable logic, limiters, protections, diagnostics, and actuator command generation.
• Build and use control-oriented models, simulations, and test-data replay workflows to support design and validation.
• Analyze controller performance, stability, robustness, actuator saturation, sensor limitations, delays, nonlinearities, and operating envelope constraints.
• Implement practical control features such as PID, feedforward, filtering, gain scheduling, anti-windup, bumpless transfer, and mode-dependent control logic.
• Support MIL, SIL, HIL, and test-data analysis activities to verify the behaviour of the control application before deployment.
• Document design choices, assumptions, interfaces, validation results, limitations, and remaining risks.
• Work closely with propulsion, embedded software, electronics, test, modelling, and systems engineering teams.

Skills

Feedback control

State estimation

Mode logic

Diagnostics

Real-time systems

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent in controls/aerospace

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Job description

The Exploration Company is seeking a Control System and Model-Based Design Engineer to advance MIL/SIL/HIL verification for Nyx engine control software. You will implement robust control strategies and real-time algorithms for thrust and valve actuation in a safety-critical environment.

You'll collaborate with propulsion and software teams to mature the engine control application from design and simulation to test data analysis and in-flight readiness.