Controls Engineering Intern -- Hands-On Hardware & Robotics

Antares; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Antares in Torrance, CA is seeking a motivated master's student or advanced undergraduate to join our Mission Engineering Team for hands-on controls engineering of nuclear technology and prototype systems. You will design, implement, and test control loops on real hardware using NI DAQ, motor drives, sensors, and power supplies, bridging theory to practice.

Strong background in classical controls and Python is essential, with opportunities to work on system identification, time-domain modeling,

Qualifications

• Current master’s student or junior/senior undergraduate in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, controls, aerospace, or related field.
• Strong understanding of classical control theory.
• Experience with time-domain modeling and Laplace-domain control design.
• Ability to move between continuous-time and discrete-time control representations, including converting Laplace-domain models into time-steppable simulations suitable for controller implementation and numerical analysis.
• Familiarity with PID control, transfer functions, stability, bandwidth, and transient response.
• Hands-on experience with actuation systems such as motors, heaters, valves, servos, linear actuators, or similar hardware.
• Comfortable working with sensors, DAQs, electrical drive hardware, and experimental test setups.
• Strong Python programming experience, including building reusable simulation components, numerical test harnesses, and controller validation tools beyond basic array manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune classical controllers for actuation and thermal/electromechanical systems.
• Build time-domain models of physical systems from first principles and experimental data.
• Design controllers using Laplace-domain tools, including transfer functions, poles/zeros, bandwidth, stability margins, and step‑response analysis.
• Compare model predictions against experimental behavior, work with hardware responsible engineers to interpret test results, and iterate on controller design.
• Iterate on digital twins using field test data and multiphysics simulation results.

Skills

Classical control

Time-domain modeling

Laplace-domain control

PID control

Discrete-time control

Data acquisition

Python programming

Electrical hardware

Sensors/DAQs

Education

Master's student

Undergraduate senior

Tools

NI DAQ

LabVIEW

Motor drives

Programmable power supplies

Sensors

Instrumentation

Job description

Antares in Torrance, CA is seeking a motivated master's student or advanced undergraduate to join our Mission Engineering Team for hands-on controls engineering of nuclear technology and prototype systems. You will design, implement, and test control loops on real hardware using NI DAQ, motor drives, sensors, and power supplies, bridging theory to practice.

Strong background in classical controls and Python is essential, with opportunities to work on system identification, time-domain modeling,