Staff Software Systems Engineer, Motor Controls
Joby Aviation2 years ago
San Carlos, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$155k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement sensored and sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motors.
- Develop inverter pulse-width modulation, position and velocity estimation, current control, efficiency optimization, and closed-loop servo position control.
- Develop fault detection, isolation, and reconfiguration logic for safety-critical systems.
- Optimize motor controls using MATLAB Simulink and develop C/C++ wrappers and interfaces for Simulink code.
- Develop, simulate, validate, and test controls algorithms and system-level actuator models with inverters and servo controls.
- Oversee dynamometer testing, interpret test data, and tune and calibrate systems on dynamometers, test stands, and aircraft.
- Perform unit, subsystem validation, integration, flight, and processor/hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Decompose system-level requirements into software requirements and collaborate with hardware, mechanical, integration, and flight-testing teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a relevant field.
- 10+ years of related technical experience, including mechanical, electrical, computer, robotics, or mechatronics engineering.
- Experience with actuation systems and/or servo control in safety-critical applications.
- Experience developing embedded applications in C/C++ and using MATLAB Simulink model-based design for controls development.
- Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and power analyzers for electronics debugging.
- Basic understanding of version control technologies.
- Experience with processor/hardware-in-the-loop verification and debugging.
- Experience creating mathematical models of servo systems for system identification, analysis, and simulation.
- Knowledge of electromechanical systems and electrical-mechanical interactions in servo systems.
- Desired advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or a relevant field.
- Desired technical experience with aerospace actuation and controls system development.
- Desired knowledge of feedback control, PID control, advanced control techniques, real-time bare-metal firmware, and hard real-time interrupt-driven software.
Benefits
- Target base pay is $154,600-$212,600 per year.
- Restricted Stock Units, a 401(k) plan with company match, and an employee stock purchase plan are offered.
- Benefits include paid time off, healthcare, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.
- Regular onsite work is required in San Carlos, California.
About Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation builds piloted, all‑electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for short‑haul air taxi services, developing the vehicles, certification, and operations in-house. The company plans to launch commercial service in the U.S. and Dubai and is scaling manufacturing ahead of entry into service. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, Joby is a public company listed on the NYSE.