Real-Time Embedded Controls Engineer - Free-Space Optics

Aalyria Technologies, Inc.; Livermore (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid remote/in‑office schedule

Competitive salary + equity

Job summary

Aalyria Technologies, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking an Embedded Real-Time Controls Engineer to design, implement, test, and field the low-latency closed‑loop control for a Free-Space Optical Communications terminal.

You will translate candidate methods into robust embedded C and develop lab testbeds to validate loop bandwidth and reliability. Collaborating with optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and controls engineers, you’ll push prototype and production readiness,

Qualifications

• Degree in EE, controls, CS, physics, or related field, plus 3+ years real-time embedded control experience.
• Strong control fundamentals and MATLAB/Simulink for design, analysis, and simulation.
• Proven ability to convert control laws, digital filters, and DSP into embedded C and debug them on real hardware.
• Comfort with nonlinear behavior and practical stabilization techniques (e.g., gain scheduling, linearization).
• Demonstrated hardware bring‑up: instrumentation, test, data acquisition, troubleshooting, and characterization.
• Works effectively at the seam of algorithms, hardware, and software within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong execution in schedule‑ and resource‑constrained environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement wavefront-correction control laws and DSP algorithms as low-latency embedded code.
• Design and build lab testbeds and data acquisition to validate loop bandwidth and robustness.
• Drive down loop latency and improve uptime of the control subsystem.
• Develop control, monitoring, and telemetry software across lifecycle: concept → design → integration → test → release.
• Support transition of prototype/test infrastructure to manufacturing.
• Collaborate with optical, mechanical, electrical, and software engineers, contributing to control-related requirements.

Skills

Real-time embedded controls

MATLAB/Simulink

Embedded C

DSP

Instrumentation

Data acquisition

Algorithms-hardware-software interface

Schedule/Resource discipline

Education

Degree in EE, controls, CS, physics, or related field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Go

Linux

Job description

Aalyria Technologies, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking an Embedded Real-Time Controls Engineer to design, implement, test, and field the low-latency closed‑loop control for a Free-Space Optical Communications terminal.

You will translate candidate methods into robust embedded C and develop lab testbeds to validate loop bandwidth and reliability. Collaborating with optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and controls engineers, you’ll push prototype and production readiness,