- Seattle, Washington, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- $198K–$277K per year
- 5+ years
As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will play a vital leadership role within a team of software engineers, GNC specialists, and mechanisms and RF engineers, contributing directly to the pointing and tracking architecture of the TeraWave constellation. You will use your expertise in control and estimation algorithms, real-time embedded software, and modeling and simulation to develop the software that keeps our antennas precisely pointed and locked on target.
Compensation
WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55
Responsibilities
- Support motor and drive trade studies for the antenna pointing mechanism by defining what the control system needs: torque, speed, position resolution, and bandwidth.
- Define the pointing control architecture for the motor and parabolic antenna system, from motor current control through gimbal position control.
- Design and tune control loops, feedforward, filtering, and compensation for friction, backlash, and structural modes.
- Develop pointing and tracking algorithms, including program track, RF closed-loop tracking, and fast slews between gateways.
- Build models and simulations of the motor, gimbal, and antenna dynamics in MATLAB/Simulink, and own the pointing error budget.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics
- Nice to have: Master's degree