What are the responsibilities and job description for the Controls Engineer position at Monarch Tractor?
Description
Who is Monarch Tractor?
Monarch Tractor has created the world's first fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor committed to elevating farming practices to enable clean, efficient, and economically viable solutions for farmers today and in the future. Monarch provides a platform for farmers to make the transition to productive, precise, profitable and sustainable farming practices. As we seek to revolutionize the farming industry and accelerate the future of clean farming, we approach every problem with a farmer-first mentality to create electric, autonomous, and intelligent solutions. Our team is made up of engineers, farmers, and industry experts who have committed themselves to building the future of agriculture. We believe the best solutions always come from collaboration amongst diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
What does success look like?
As a Controls and Firmware Engineer you will be responsible for delivering high quality embedded code running on the processors at the heart of our novel powertrain, implements, sensors, electrical distribution, and hydraulic system.
Come join a team of deeply knowledgeable engineers that strive to build the most robust and reliable embedded systems that run game-changing farm equipment. You will solve some of the most challenging problems in the embedded software space and change the way we farm and deliver food.
Who we are looking for :
Controls Skills
- Experience in embedded development in robotics, real-time controls, or system software.
- Experience with motors, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters / converters, hydraulic systems, and / or high voltage batteries
- Fluent in motion control systems theory and physics
- Proficiency in Matlab / Simulink auto-coding to embedded targets
- Experience with CAN bus (e.g. J1939) and CAN bus diagnostics tools (e.g. Vector CANalyzer)
- Understanding of telematics, diagnostics, and calibration protocols (e.g. XCP)
- Exposure to ROS and Ethernet communication protocols
- Experience with communication protocols like USB, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, etc
- Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability
- Experience with embedded microprocessor tools
- Understanding of controls software and algorithm development
- Test driven development and familiarity with developer driven automated testing
- Ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts.
- Experience with physical modeling and / or simulation of electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic systems.
- Experience debugging control systems running on complex electro-mechanical hardware
- Familiarity with electrical debugging tools like multimeters and oscilloscopes
- BS, MS, or PhD in EE / CE / CS / ME, or the equivalent in experience with evidence of exceptional ability
What do we offer?
This is not a remote position.
The ideal candidate is excited about working in-person with peers in Livermore. We bounce ideas off of each other and strive to achieve maximum collaboration. We want someone who's excited to be part of the collaborative culture and contribute to that energy.
Diversity
Monarch Tractor is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on merit. Monarch Tractor policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful.
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