Sr. Controls Engineer - Autonomy

Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

At Oshkosh, we build, serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 18,000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

SUMMARY

Work within advanced products engineering group in the development of control strategy for advanced vehicle control systems. Controls work encompasses advanced control strategy development and verification for unmanned ground vehicle systems, hybrid electric vehicles and components (motors, drives, engines, generators, energy storage cells etc.), advanced suspensions, material handling and other auxiliary equipment for on-road and off-road applications.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for advanced vehicle system controls research, development, verification and validation, testing and production implementation        

• Establish requirements (resources, equipment, estimates, test plans, and milestones) according to the needs of a project                 

• Responsible for developing control strategies in a virtual simulation environment using modeling tools (such as ADAMS, Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow, EASY 5 etc.) or hardware-in-the-loop simulators and transferring simulated strategies to vehicle testing and eventual production implementation               

• Work with internal and external (industry consortiums, universities..) project teams on advanced control development efforts                                                    

• Assist feasibility studies and project estimates (man power, budget development, timelines..) on proposed projects                  

• Support proposal development with regards to acquiring appropriate funding for various advanced control development efforts                                                             

• Provide support and insight to engineering design teams as needed based on expertise                                                      

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (either)

• Bachelor's degree in engineering and 3 plus years related work experience

• Master’s degree in engineering and 1 or more years related work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Current experience writing model-based software in MATLAB/Simulink environment

• Knowledge of classical control theory, optimal controls, adaptive controls, model predictive controls, and state-space modeling

• Current experience writing C++ software

• Knowledge of object-oriented design, C++ templates, C++ exceptions and the STL

• Experience writing embedded applications on microcontrollers

• Experience with real-time operating systems

• Experience working with CAN and the J1939 protocol

• Familiarity with tools such as Vector CANalyzer, dSPACE TargetLink, dSPACE ControlDesk

• Current experience writing Python software

• Familiarity with git version control

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Experience with automotive, Off-Highway or heavy-duty equipment

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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