Systems Engineer

About The Role

We are seeking a Staff Systems Engineer with broad expertise spanning analog electrical hardware design, real-time embedded firmware, digital signal processing, and motor drive systems. This role operates at the intersection of precision instrumentation, closed‑loop controls, and power electronics, including high‑performance inverter design to drive permanent‑magnet motors in motorsports applications.

This is a senior individual contributor role with broad technical ownership. You will shape architecture, lead design reviews, and drive solutions in areas where hardware and software are deeply intertwined while mentoring the engineers around you.

• Design and validate sensor signal conditioning chains for LVDTs, strain gauges, load cells, and piezoelectric/IEPE accelerometers.
• Apply DSP techniques—filtering (FIR/IIR), FFT/PSD/FRF analysis, and sampling strategies—to ensure signal integrity across the analog‑digital boundary.
• Define ADC requirements (resolution, dynamic range, latency) from application needs; troubleshoot signal quality issues including ground loops, EMI, and cabling.

• Design hard real‑time firmware with deterministic scheduling, interrupt management, and multi‑rate task structures.
• Architect and implement control algorithms (PID variants, cascade, feed forward, gain scheduling) for precision actuator/sensor systems.
• Develop system‑identification procedures, auto‑tuning workflows, and simulation models (Simulink, Python) to validate algorithms before firmware deployment.

• Write production‑quality embedded C/C++ for real‑time targets (ARM Cortex‑R/M, DSP cores, Intel platforms).
• Integrate peripherals (SPI, I2C, DMA, ADC/DAC) and design firmware architectures that cleanly separate real‑time control, communications, and configuration layers.
• Develop HALs/BSPs for new hardware platforms; use standard debug tools (JTAG, trace, logic analyzers) to verify real‑time performance.

• Architect and implement Ether
  
  CAT‑based communication for distributed I/O systems, including object dictionary design, PDO mapping, and slave stack development.
• Working knowledge of complementary protocols:
  Modbus, CANopen, CAN FD.

• Lead hardware architecture definition and component trade studies for new platforms.
• Apply mixed‑signal PCB design principles: signal partitioning, grounding, power planes, thermal management, and controlled impedance.
• Select components with attention to lifecycle, sourcing risk, industrial temperature ratings, and obsolescence; support design reviews with awareness of CE, UL, and EU CRA requirements.

• Design inverter hardware for motors across low‑voltage (12–48 V) and high‑voltage (400–800 V) ranges, including gate‑drive circuits, DC‑bus filtering, snubber networks, and current sensing.
• Select and apply power‑switching devices (SiC MOSFETs, IGBTs) with appropriate thermal‑management strategies for sustained motor sport duty cycles.
• Implement field‑oriented control (FOC) in firmware:
  Clarke/Park transforms, PI current regulators, PWM generation, and rotor‑position decoding (encoder/resolver or sensorless).
• Tune and validate drive performance across the full operating envelope; implement protection logic for overcurrent, overvoltage, thermal derating, and safe‑state discharge.
• Ensure compliance with HV safety, insulation, and interlock requirements for motor sport applications.

• Trace requirements and failure modes across the full analog → digital → firmware → software stack; lead cross‑discipline design reviews that span hardware/software boundaries.
• Decompose and allocate requirements across HW/FW/SW teams; develop system‑level integration test plans and acceptance criteria.
• Author architecture trade studies and technical position documents for leadership.
• Mentor junior engineers and elevate team capability across the embedded systems discipline.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of…