Controls Engineer, Senior

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies.

Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients- that is what Vantive aspires to deliver. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre.

Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Vantive’s Pris Max systems are used in the ICU to support patients experiencing life-threatening acute kidney injury. Clinicians rely on our devices to deliver continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), helping to maintain critical kidney function while patients recover. We’re building new platforms, devices, and connected systems to make therapy administration more efficient, consistent, and intuitive- so care teams can focus on the patient.

Vantive is seeking a Controls and Model-Based Design Systems Engineer (Controls Engineer, Senior) to support new product development for current and next-generation medical devices. In this role, you will develop, test, and verify control algorithms that help automate therapy delivery. You’ll work hands-on with rapid prototyping, model-based software development, hardware/software- in- the-loop (HIL/SIL) testing, and automated test scripting to verify performance.

Experience in industries such as aerospace, automotive, electro-hydraulics, or process control translates well to this position. This is an individual contributor role, working under the guidance of a functional manager and collaborating closely with a cross-functional, global team.

• Design and develop embedded closed-loop control algorithms using model-based design tools to manage electro-mechanical components (pumps, motors, valves) and sensor inputs (pressure, temperature, weight, conductivity) to conduct the treatment
• Translate clinical and user needs into clear control-system behaviors by defining requirements, logic diagrams, operating modes, alarm conditions, and thresholds
• Utilize rapid prototyping and simulation capabilities, including software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments, to accelerate development and de-risk designs
• Plan and execute verification activities—from automated test scripting to hands-on lab evaluations—to demonstrate compliance with control requirements and characterize algorithm performance
• Create high-quality design documentation for product release, including requirements, design descriptions, test plans/protocols, and test results that support the Design History File (DHF)
• Serve as a Controls subject matter expert (SME) by troubleshooting system-level issues, leading/participating in root-cause investigations, and identifying corrective actions in partnership with software, electrical, test, and systems team members
• Support the matrix organization by providing Controls expertise and guidance as a dedicated team member on one or more cross-functional new product development projects while communicating progress, technical risks, schedule impacts, and key dependencies to the team

• Bachelor’s degree and three years or more of relevant experience, or Master’s degree and two years or more of relevant experience, with a degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical, Controls, Systems, Software, or a related engineering field

• Hands-on experience with Math Works model-based design tools (MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow), including building, simulating, and iterating control models; experience with Embedded Coder or MATLAB…