Control Systems Engineer - HVDC Macrogrid Innovator

American Terawatt; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Gym/Wellness reimbursement

Lunch provided

Unlimited PTO

Apple laptop

Job summary

American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States. The control systems software engineer will own the development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of control systems software deployed to company hardware.

You will work with the power systems engineering team to co-design transmission systems for Macrogrids and HVDC networks, and develop simulation and testing platforms to verify performance before field deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 3+ years of commercial engineering experience in control systems within aerospace, robotics, EV, power systems, or other safety-critical domains.
• Proficiency in control theory fundamentals: feedback/feedforward control, state estimation, PID tuning, and stability analysis.
• Hands-on experience with real-time embedded control systems development (e.g., C/C++ on RTOS or bare-metal platforms).
• Experience developing and validating controls using simulation tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, or PSCAD.
• Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing methodologies.
• Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and software development best practices in an embedded or controls context.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across software, firmware, and hardware boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of control systems software deployed to hardware.
• Collaborate with power systems engineering to co-design transmission systems and components.
• Develop simulation and physical testing platforms to verify performance and robustness.
• Participate in commissioning of controls software in-situ in real deployments.
• Develop and maintain control systems software development pipelines including CI/CD, issue tracking, etc.

Skills

Real-time embedded

C/C++

RTOS

PID tuning

State estimation

CI/CD

Debugging

MATLAB/Simulink

HIL/SIL testing

Power systems

Control theory

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

PLECS

PSCAD

CAN

Modbus

DNP3

IEC 61850

Job description

American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States. The control systems software engineer will own the development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of control systems software deployed to company hardware.

You will work with the power systems engineering team to co-design transmission systems for Macrogrids and HVDC networks, and develop simulation and testing platforms to verify performance before field deployment.