Senior Embedded Motor Controls Architect & Lead Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a lead controls engineer to own the technical baseline for a family of embedded motor controllers. You will define architectures, interfaces, verification plans, and lifecycle documentation across multiple products.

You will partner with vehicle and subsystem teams to understand mission needs, perform bench bring-up in the lab, troubleshoot hardware/software issues, and guide integration and testing of actuators and propulsion-related components.

Qualifications

• Experience leading embedded motor controller projects.
• Strong background in control systems, interfaces, and verification.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead controls engineer for a family of embedded motor controllers, owning the technical baseline across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, and lifecycle documentation
• Define and maintain reusable motor control architectures for multiple mechanisms, vehicles, and mission use cases
• Partner with vehicle and subsystem teams to understand mission and mechanism needs, including performance, environmental, fault tolerance, operability, safety, and integration requirements
• Develop control solutions for lunar valves, latches, pumps, fans, and blowers
• Work directly with controller hardware in the lab through bench bring-up, checkout, integration, troubleshooting, and failure investigation
• Debug hardware/software boundary issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, DAQ systems, and HIL/bench test setups
• Define and manage interfaces between motor controllers, motors

Skills

Embedded motor control

Systems architecture

Requirements management

Verification & validation

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

DAQ systems

Bench/HIL test setups

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a lead controls engineer to own the technical baseline for a family of embedded motor controllers. You will define architectures, interfaces, verification plans, and lifecycle documentation across multiple products.

You will partner with vehicle and subsystem teams to understand mission needs, perform bench bring-up in the lab, troubleshoot hardware/software issues, and guide integration and testing of actuators and propulsion-related components.