Lead Control System Engineer

Title: Lead Control System Engineer

Location: Christchurch New Zealand (100% In Office)

Division: Trimble Ag Industry Solutions (AgIS)

As the Lead Systems Control Engineer you'll be designing automatic motion control systems algorithms for off-highway industrial machinery, including tractors, combines, excavators, and dozers. Your responsibilities will cover developing, maintaining, and optimising core control algorithms using MATLAB/Simulink or C/C++, and working on their integration into our products.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Demonstrated expertise  in control system algorithm development for mechanical dynamic systems.

• Experience with MATLAB/Simulink development.

• Experience in test, verification, validation, and productization of algorithms.

• Familiarity with requirements decomposition and management tools.

• Experience with Plant Modeling development tools and processes.

• Safety-critical software development and certification.

• HIL and SIL testing.

• Proficiency in C/C++ software development.

• Background in guidance, navigation, in addition to control.

• Ability to travel up to 10% annually.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and productize control law algorithms.

• Use MATLAB/Simulink for model-based design (MBD).

• Apply sensor fusion and filter design for pose estimation.

• Design signal conditioning and feedback loop compensation.

• Develop and validate non-linear vehicle dynamics plant models.

• Evaluate algorithms in simulations and target environments.

• Support integration and performance validation on real-time hardware/operating systems.

• Define system/software architecture.

• Ensure ongoing testing and product quality.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience in state estimation (Kalman filters).

• Experience leading small technical projects.

• Simulink auto-code generation.

• Practical experience with automatic controls of off-highway machinery.

• Experience with GNSS+IMU state estimation.

• Autonomous/Semi-autonomous vehicle control.

• Experience with Systems Identification.

Education Requirement

• Master’s or PhD Engineering Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related engineering fields.

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About Trimble Ag Industry Solutions

Trimble Ag Industry Solutions  provides GNSS and Control System-based hardware and software technologies for implementing customer solutions, including those for the PTx Trimble JV with Agco, as well as for Trimble Civil and Construction product portfolio.

• http://ptxtrimble.com/en

• http://heavyindustry.trimble.com/en/products/civilconstruction/machine-control

About Trimble

Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com

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