6 days ago
Director - Controls Software
Menlo Park, CA
$212,000-$250,000 / year
full-timedirectorEnergy
Tech Stack
Description
You will manage and mentor a team of engineers responsible for modeling, simulation, and control of a next-generation energy system's dynamics. Your technical leadership will drive a strategy that prioritizes model-based design and high-fidelity simulation to ensure robust performance before algorithms reach hardware.
Requirements
- Leadership: Multiple years of experience leading and growing high-performance engineering teams
- Technical Depth: Strong background in control theory (linear and nonlinear), system dynamics, and signal processing
- Simulation Expertise: Demonstrated experience with Model-Based Design (MBD) workflows and simulation tools (MATLAB/Simulink, Python, etc.)
- Systems Mindset: Ability to understand complex interactions in electromechanical machines involving sensors, actuators, and thermal/fluid dynamics
- Education: BS or MS in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering (or equivalent experience) Comfortable reviewing block diagrams, simulation results, and technical specifications
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of world class engineers across domains from dynamics and automation to power and reaction control
- Technical Strategy: Drive a "simulation-first" development culture. Oversee the creation of plant models and control strategies, ensuring designs are validated in simulation (MIL/SIL) prior to software implementation
- Architecture & Oversight: Provide technical guidance on control architectures, ensuring the mathematical models and control logic are sound, robust, and well-specified
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Product and Program Management to roadmap features. You will assess technical feasibility and ensure the team delivers validated specifications that meet product requirements
- Process Excellence: Establish workflows for algorithm development, including design reviews, requirements traceability, and validation plans
- Reliability & Diagnostics: Oversee the development of diagnostics and fail-safes to ensure the generator operates autonomously and safely in the field
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