Senior Embedded Controls Engineer - Motion & Sensing

Clutch Canada; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grants

Comprehensive benefits

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Aeva is seeking an engineer for the Scanning Systems team in Mountain View, CA, to design and implement control systems for LiDAR actuators. You will develop, test, and refine control architectures, work across electrical and mechanical engineering teams, and contribute to high-precision motion control hardware.

Responsibilities include hands-on design, real-time firmware development in C, and data-driven evaluation of controller performance in collaboration with reliability and test groups.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing controls for motion control applications.
• Strong fundamentals in control design - PID, frequency domain, state space.
• Experience implementing real-time, production-level firmware in C.
• Ability to prototype controller designs and analyze data in Matlab and Python.
• Working knowledge of motors, encoders, motor drivers, ADCs and microcontrollers.
• Master's level coursework in controls and embedded programming.

Responsibilities

• Developing, testing and analyzing control architectures and improvements.
• Implementing controller changes in C.
• Root-causing control performance issues with embedded, electrical and mechanical engineers.
• Testing and qualifying changes by coordinating with the reliability and test team to identify the appropriate test conditions, collect relevant data and present results for approval.

Skills

PID control

State-space

Frequency domain

Embedded C

Matlab

Python

Motors & encoders

Motor drivers

MCUs

Controls coursework

Education

Master's degree in controls/embedded

Tools

Matlab/Simulink

C

Job description

Aeva is seeking an engineer for the Scanning Systems team in Mountain View, CA, to design and implement control systems for LiDAR actuators. You will develop, test, and refine control architectures, work across electrical and mechanical engineering teams, and contribute to high-precision motion control hardware.

Responsibilities include hands-on design, real-time firmware development in C, and data-driven evaluation of controller performance in collaboration with reliability and test groups.