Controls Engineering Intern - Hands-on Robotics & Hardware

Antares; Torrance, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Antares in Torrance, CA is seeking a master's student or senior undergraduate to join the Mission Engineering Team for controls engineering on nuclear technology and hands-on hardware. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and testing control loops with NI DAQ systems, motor drives, and sensors, bridging theory and practice in robotics and actuation, five days per week on site.

Strong Python skills and time-domain/Laplace-domain modeling are valued, with exposure to experimental test

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 theory

Time-domain modeling

Laplace-domain control design

PID control

Sensing and actuation hardware

Python programming

Hardware-in-the-loop testing

Education

Master's student or junior/senior undergraduate in mechanical engineering / electrical engineering / robotics / controls

Tools

NI DAQ systems

Programmable power supplies

Motor drives

Sensors

Job description

Antares in Torrance, CA is seeking a master's student or senior undergraduate to join the Mission Engineering Team for controls engineering on nuclear technology and hands-on hardware. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and testing control loops with NI DAQ systems, motor drives, and sensors, bridging theory and practice in robotics and actuation, five days per week on site.

Strong Python skills and time-domain/Laplace-domain modeling are valued, with exposure to experimental test