Control Systems Engineer — Space Sensing & AI

Matter Intelligence; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Employer-paid health, dental, and vis

Opportunity to work on novel sensing/3

Job summary

Matter Intelligence is hiring a Control Systems Engineer to develop and validate control approaches for our sensing systems. The role connects modeling and simulation with hardware integration, test, and real-world behavior at El Segundo, CA.

You will translate performance requirements into control architectures, verify plans, and use simulation/test data to evaluate stability and robustness while collaborating with software, firmware, electronics, and mechanical teams.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in dynamics, feedback control, estimation, and system modeling.
• Experience developing, simulating, and validating controls for a physical system.
• Ability to work across analytical models, software, hardware interfaces, and test data.
• Clear technical communication and disciplined documentation of assumptions and performance results.
• Experience with aerospace, robotics, precision pointing, optical systems or tightly controlled hardware is a plus.
• Experience with real-time systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing is a plus.
• Familiarity with sensor fusion, calibration, or estimation under uncertain conditions is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop models and control algorithms for payload, pointing, stabilization, or subsystem functions.
• Translate performance requirements into control architectures, interfaces, and verification plans.
• Use simulation and test data to evaluate stability, robustness, and expected system performance.
• Support software, firmware, electronics, mechanical, and systems teams during integration and troubleshooting.
• Plan and execute model-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level validation as appropriate.

Skills

Dynamics & control theory

System modeling

State estimation

Control software implementation

Hardware integration

Tools

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)

Simulation tools

Job description

Matter Intelligence is hiring a Control Systems Engineer to develop and validate control approaches for our sensing systems. The role connects modeling and simulation with hardware integration, test, and real-world behavior at El Segundo, CA.

You will translate performance requirements into control architectures, verify plans, and use simulation/test data to evaluate stability and robustness while collaborating with software, firmware, electronics, and mechanical teams.