4 months ago
Westerville, OH, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and implement object-oriented control algorithms for thermal systems, including flow, temperature, and pressure regulation.
- Architect modular and reusable control frameworks scalable across product variants.
- Develop control software for embedded Linux and microcontroller-based real-time systems.
- Model and integrate sensors, actuators, plant dynamics, and other physical system behavior into software.
- Define system interfaces and control strategies with mechanical, electrical, and firmware teams.
- Implement fault handling, diagnostics, safe-state behavior, performance tuning, and resource-constrained operation.
- Develop near-real-time control algorithms and device communications using industrial and serial protocols.
- Perform design, programming, debugging, peer review, unit testing, bench testing, system integration testing, and field test support.
- Support hardware development and testing, system validation, and field issue root-cause analysis.
- Provide effective team participation and technical leadership as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience developing embedded control systems.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++ with object-oriented design.
- Experience developing software for embedded Linux and/or RTOS-based systems.
- Understanding of control theory fundamentals, including PID, feedforward, and system stability.
- Ability to design maintainable, abstracted control architectures and abstract analog and digital I/O interactions.
- Experience with near-real-time control algorithms, distributed control architectures, and device communications.
- Preferred experience with HVAC, thermal systems, fluid control, model-based design, simulation, system identification, multi-rate control systems, real-time scheduling, HIL testing, or system validation frameworks.
- Knowledge of industrial communication protocols such as Modbus and CAN.
About Vertiv
Vertiv builds power, cooling, and IT infrastructure for data centers, communication networks, and industrial facilities, sold as hardware, software, and services. Its portfolio spans UPS systems, thermal management, racks, prefabricated modules, and monitoring/management software, backed by global field service and commissioning. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Vertiv was formed from Emerson Network Power and became a publicly traded company on the NYSE.