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Control System Engineer

500

New Zealand - Christchurch

Category Engineering Jobs

Title: Control System Engineer Location: Christchurch New Zealand (100% In Office) Division: Trimble Ag Industry Solutions (AgIS) As the 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 Youll 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 GNSSIMU state estimation. Autonomous/Semi-autonomous vehicle control.

Experience with Systems Identification. Education Requirement Masters or PhD Engineering Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related engineering fields. 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 worlds 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.

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