Senior Motion Controls Engineer - Steering & Suspension

General Motors; Milford (CT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Hybrid work option

Job summary

General Motors' VMCC Platform Design team seeks an experienced automotive controls engineer to lead end-to-end controls in steering or suspension domains, translating vehicle-motion objectives into actuators across multiple configurations.

You will develop reusable algorithms, state estimators, and sensor processing, and work with braking, propulsion, and chassis teams to validate software in HIL, DiL, and in-vehicle tests.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Controls, Robotics, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree with relevant experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end controls design for either the steering or suspension/vertical-motion domain.
• Develop reusable control and estimation algorithms translating vehicle-level objectives into actuator commands.
• Define platform interfaces, control ownership, actuator coordination, arbitration, and technology-specific extensions.
• Develop vehicle-motion state estimators, observers, sensor-processing and sensor-fusion methods.
• Coordinate with braking, propulsion, rear-steering, and other chassis domains to deliver cohesive vehicle-motion behavior.
• Translate vehicle-dynamics, ride, handling, stability, comfort, and controllability objectives into control requirements, performance metrics, algorithms, and calibration strategies.
• Use model-based development, vehicle-dynamics simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), driver-in-the-loop (DiL), and in-vehicle testing to design, calibrate, verify, and validate controls.
• Implement algorithms in production-oriented embedded software and support requirements development, interface definition, design reviews, diagnostics, and software-release activities.

Skills

Strong analytical & problem-solving

Clear technical reports & presentat

Collaboration & communication

Valid driver’s license

Education

MSc or PhD in Controls, Robotics, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering

Tools

DOORS

DNG

JAMA

Job description

General Motors' VMCC Platform Design team seeks an experienced automotive controls engineer to lead end-to-end controls in steering or suspension domains, translating vehicle-motion objectives into actuators across multiple configurations.

You will develop reusable algorithms, state estimators, and sensor processing, and work with braking, propulsion, and chassis teams to validate software in HIL, DiL, and in-vehicle tests.