Principal Engineer – Controls

About Oshkosh Aero Tech, an Oshkosh company

Oshkosh Aero Tech is a leading provider of aviation ground support products, gate equipment and airport services to commercial airlines, airports, air-freight carriers, ground handling and military customers. Oshkosh Aero Tech offers products that make a difference in people’s lives by supporting those in our communities who do some of the toughest work. They own many of the most trusted brands in the air transportation industry, including LEKTRO®, Jet Aire®, Jet Power®, Amp TekÔ, Jetway®, and more.

The Principal Engineer — Controls works within engineering groups to lead the exploration of applicable technologies and systems and methods for vehicle control strategies. Develops and implements advanced strategies and system level requirements for vehicle control systems. Controls work encompassing control strategy development and verification for engine, hybrid, and electric vehicles, for components (electronic control modules, motors, drives, engines, generators, energy storage cells, sensors, etc.),

and for autonomous vehicle systems, suspensions systems, material handling systems, and other auxiliary systems for on-road and off-road applications.
YOUR IMPACT:

• Responsible for the technical completion of a project or part of a project of moderate complexity and managing the controls schedule for the project.
• May be responsible for managing multiple priorities.
• Performs more complex engineering calculations, investigations, and tasks.
• Deliver results according to Oshkosh and general industry engineering standards and processes.
• Responsible for preparation and delivery of plans, designs, computation methods, and/or reporting.
• Work in collaboration with software engineering, and other engineering groups or business support disciplines as well as external component suppliers.
• May have exposure to external customers and/or industry organizations.
• Provide guidance or mentorship to entry level engineers working on common projects.
• Research, create, and update standard engineering methodology and procedures – best practices, etc.
• Responsible for vehicle system controls research, development, verification and validation, testing and production implementation.
• Establish requirements (resources, equipment, estimates, test plans, and milestones) according to the needs of a project.
• Responsible for developing control strategies in a virtual simulation environment using modeling tools (such as ADAMS, Matlab/Simulink/State flow, AMEsim, etc.) or hardware-in-the-loop simulators and transferring simulated strategies to vehicle testing and eventual production implementation.
• Work with internal and external (industry consortiums, universities…) project teams on advanced control development efforts and on component development efforts
• Assist feasibility studies and project estimates (manpower, budget development, timelines) on proposed projects.
• Support proposal development with regards to acquiring appropriate funding for various advanced control development efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular attendance is required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Accredited Bachelor’s degree in mechanical/electrical Engineering or related field with five (5) or more years of related experience.

STANDOUT

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering and eight (8) or more years of related experience or Master’s degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering and five (5) or more years of related experience or Ph.D. degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering with two (2) or more years of related experience.
• Automotive or heavy-duty vehicle background with vehicle control system experience.
• Work experience in automotive or heavy-duty vehicle CAN bus and architecture.
• Work experience in Mathworks, dSPACE or Vector tools and Autosar.
• Embedded software development experiences using C/C++/C# or Python a plus.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Internal Contacts:
  Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential…