Controls Design Engineer

General Motors
Milford Charter Township, MI, United States
8 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

C (Programming Language) Component-Based Software Engineering JIRA Unit Testing C++ (Programming Language) MATLAB Simulink Software Engineering Software Requirements Analysis DOORS (Software) Control Structures Git
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Job description

DUTIES: Develop and implement control and diagnostic algorithms for various vehicle features and systems in brake controls using either Model Based coding including MATLAB, C, or C++. Help define calibration strategies and promote hand code practices in controls and SW implementation. Ensure compliance to safety and government regulations while developing GM-internal best practices. Interpret system requirements and translate it to control and SW strategies. Design and manage key strategic interfaces within systems to enable component reuse and consistency to standard methodologies. Provide support to other specialists for root cause analysis. Define software unit tests, HIL (Hardware in the loop), and vehicle tests from customers’ expectations and system requirements. Meet physics-based requirements with efficient designs using modeling, simulation, data collection, and analysis. Support resolution of vehicle, plant, or customer issues related to controls and calibration. Help build tools, libraries, and training material to enable capability growth and support learning of the team. Collaborate with other teams to define and integrate components, check functionality on the bench and in the vehicle. Mentor new employees to help increase capabilities and share knowledge. 5% travel to client sites nationwide. Hybrid Work Policy - 3 days In-office, 2 days remote - Must be able to report to local office.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field of study and Five years of experience as a Developer or related occupation. Five years of experience with Embedded controls and controls software development. Three years of experience with Software coding including C-language, Simulink, MATLAB, DOORS, GIT environments; plant modeling, and analysis tools; Control system theory and application to embedded systems including state space feedback control, adaptive control, or model predictive control; and Brake Control, Chassis Control or Battery High Voltage, Vehicle Energy Transfer, Charging or Automotive System. Two years of experience with Electrification and diagnostics; JIRA; and MIL, SIL, HIL or CPUU Testing.

About the company

We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team., General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

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