Antares

Embedded Controls Engineer - PCS (Power Conversion System)

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Base Salary

$120k - $185k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture, development, validation, deployment, and long-term health of the PCS control application.
  • Develop and maintain production-scale model-based application software using MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow.
  • Design and tune closed-loop controls, operating modes, sequencing, state machines, interlocks, limits, and transition logic for power conversion and related processes.
  • Define execution rates, scheduling, I/O abstraction, interfaces, and deterministic real-time behavior.
  • Perform mathematical modeling, simulation, and analysis of stability, dynamic response, operating limits, and transient and steady-state behavior.
  • Develop sensor plausibility checks, diagnostics, fault responses, degraded operating behavior, and safe-state actions.
  • Execute Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop, bench, and system validation testing.
  • Instrument models and analyze simulation, test, and logged operational data to troubleshoot and improve control behavior.
  • Support model-based code generation, build, deployment, integration, commissioning, and operation on real-time PCS hardware.
  • Document control architecture, algorithms, interfaces, assumptions, calibration logic, and validation results.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of experience developing and deploying model-based embedded controls for automotive powertrain, motorsport, propulsion, aerospace, or similarly demanding real-time systems.
  • Strong MATLAB and Simulink experience, including production-scale model architecture, maintenance, and model-based code-generation workflows.
  • Experience taking controls from simulation through Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop or bench testing, and deployment on real-time embedded hardware.
  • Strong understanding of control theory, dynamic systems, feedback-control design, diagnostics, and state-based supervisory logic.
  • Experience with multi-rate models, deterministic execution, task scheduling, model references and libraries, and parameter or calibration management.
  • Experience with calibration, instrumentation, telemetry, data logging, embedded communications, sensors, actuators, and real-time I/O.
  • Experience developing sensor plausibility checks, diagnostics, fault detection, safe-state behavior, and degraded operating modes.
  • Familiarity with version control, model configuration management, requirements traceability, automated testing, and disciplined embedded-software development practices.
  • Direct experience with McLaren Applied or Motion Applied control systems and tooling, including TAG ECUs, vTAG, ATLAS, or related Simulink-based application-development workflows, is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with Simulink Coder, Embedded Coder, Stateflow, or comparable production model-based code-generation toolchains is preferred.
  • Experience with powertrain, hybrid, energy-management, motorsport, high-performance automotive, aerospace, or other demanding embedded controls programs is preferred.

Tech Stack

MATLAB

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About Antares

51-200 employees

Antares designs and manufactures compact, transportable nuclear microreactors that deliver mobile power to remote military bases, austere industrial sites, and future space and underwater missions. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, monetizes through development contracts and eventual sales of microreactor systems; it holds contracts with U.S. military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.

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