Senior Real-Time Controls Engineer — Equity & Startup

Ultrasonium; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Direct collaboration with founding团队

Flexible working

IP portfolio development

Job summary

Ultrasonium in Woburn, MA is seeking a seasoned Real-time Controls Engineer to shape a novel metal additive manufacturing platform. You will own architecture, model development, and deployment across hardware and software, guiding an end-to-end control pipeline and ensuring production readiness.

With 5+ years in real-time control on physical hardware, you will sculpt low-latency firmware on FPGA/DSP/RTOS, fuse sensor data, and work closely with a founding team to push boundaries in manufacturing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Robotics or related field; advanced degree a plus.
• 5+ years hands-on experience designing real-time control systems on physical hardware.
• Deep proficiency in closed-loop control design, classical or model-based, with real hardware results.
• Experience with embedded real-time platforms: FPGA, DSP, or RTOS-based MCUs.
• Strong C/C++ for embedded targets; Python or MATLAB/Simulink for modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own the real-time control architecture from requirements to production readiness.
• Design, implement, and tune closed-loop control systems for high-speed, multi-variable processes.
• Develop embedded real-time firmware on FPGA, DSP, or RTOS platforms for low-latency control.
• Integrate multi-axis motion control with process feedback across the system.
• Develop sensor fusion and signal processing to extract reliable state from high-bandwidth data.
• Build plant models and perform model-based control; validate against experimental data.
• Define and execute controls verification & validation (HIL tests, performance tests, FMEA).
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and process engineers for clean integration.
• Establish controls documentation standards and participate in IP development and patent work.
• Mentor interns and junior engineers as the team scales.

Skills

Real-time control design

Embedded systems

C/C++ programming

FPGA/Verilog/VHDL

Multi-axis motion control

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/ME/Robotics

Master's degree or PhD a plus

Tools

FPGA tools

LabVIEW RT

NI hardware

Job description

Ultrasonium in Woburn, MA is seeking a seasoned Real-time Controls Engineer to shape a novel metal additive manufacturing platform. You will own architecture, model development, and deployment across hardware and software, guiding an end-to-end control pipeline and ensuring production readiness.

With 5+ years in real-time control on physical hardware, you will sculpt low-latency firmware on FPGA/DSP/RTOS, fuse sensor data, and work closely with a founding team to push boundaries in manufacturing