Control System Engineer
About the job
- At least 5 years of experience in control algorithm development for dynamic systems.
- A Master’s or PhD in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC), or a related engineering field is preferred.
- A strong foundation in classical and modern control theory, with extensive MATLAB/Simulink development experience.
- Hands-on experience with automatic control of off-highway industrial machinery.
- Experience testing, verifying, validating, and productizing algorithms, including using plant simulation tools.
- Experience with data acquisition, processing, and analytics to support testing and validation of developed control systems.
- Familiarity with requirements decomposition and management tools.
- Ability to travel up to 10% annually.
- Partner with domain experts and project teams to architect positioning and control systems and establish realistic, achievable requirements.
- Design, develop, and productize core control law algorithms, including feedback/feedforward loop compensation, signal conditioning, and filter/state estimation for optimal pose estimation, using MATLAB/Simulink.
- Develop and validate non-linear vehicle dynamics plant models.
- Define robust system and software architectures and write clean, well-documented, maintainable code and models.
- Validate control algorithms through simulations (software-in-the-loop/hardware-in-the-loop) and physical on-machine testing to ensure ongoing performance and product quality.
- Identify and write test cases mapped to control requirements to maintain high-quality software standards.
- Create and maintain custom data processing tools to support development, analysis, and deployment processes.
- Expertise in Kalman filters, GNSS+IMU state estimation, and sensor fusion for pose estimation.
- Experience designing and addressing control challenges within hydraulic and electro-hydraulic actuation systems.
- Background in Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) for autonomous/semi-autonomous vehicles, aerospace, marine, or defense systems.
- Experience with Systems Identification, Simscape, Simulink auto-code generation, and Hardware-in-the-Loop/Software-in-the-Loop testing.
- Proficiency in C/C++ software development and familiarity with the ROS ecosystem.
- Experience in safety-critical software development and certification processes.
- A proven track record of evaluating and incorporating modern artificial intelligence methodologies and tools into control system engineering workflows and product design.
- Experience leading small technical projects.
About the company
Trimble connects physical industries to digital technology with hardware, software, and services spanning design, construction, and operation. Its products include GPS devices, automated grade control, and 3D modeling tools like SketchUp, all offered on a unified platform via subscriptions. It differentiates itself through a long history of strategic acquisitions that create an integrated ecosystem and a move to a Connect and Scale model with recurring revenue. Its goal is to help plan, build, and operate projects more efficiently by unifying data and workflows across architecture, engineering, construction, and transportation.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Westminster, Colorado
Founded
1978
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What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue rose 11% to $972 million, with ARR reaching $2.51 billion.
- September 2026 Insight launches added nearly 20 AI tools across fleet and maintenance workflows.
- October 2026 $500 million term loan and $1 billion buyback signal confident capital deployment.
What critics are saying
- Transportation strategic review started August 2026; Goldman Sachs is testing a sale process.
- Q2 2026 goodwill impairment of $562 million exposed transportation’s damaged asset value.
- AI rivals targeting fleet automation threaten Trimble’s software moat if customers standardize elsewhere.
What makes Trimble unique
- Trimble’s October 2026 VRS acquisition deepens centimeter-level positioning in Japan.
- PC*Miler handles 5.5 billion monthly routing requests, anchoring transportation software scale.
- SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor links 3D design to field execution across construction workflows.
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Trimble has secured a $500 million unsecured delayed draw term loan facility with Bank of America serving as administrative agent. The Colorado-based company announced the agreement on 2 October 2026, though it has not yet drawn any funds. The facility allows Trimble to draw funds in up to four instalments before 29 January 2027, after which undrawn commitments will expire. Term loans mature two years following the initial draw date. Interest accrues at either the alternate base rate plus 0.00% to 0.750%, or the term SOFR rate plus 0.875% to 1.750%. Starting 1 December 2026, a ticking fee of 0.075% to 0.275% annually applies to undrawn commitments. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes. The agreement includes standard covenants and allows prepayment without penalty, subject to customary interest breakage costs.
Trimble unveiled a suite of AI-powered transportation solutions at its 2026 Insight Conference in San Diego. The company introduced nearly 20 new features aimed at helping fleet operators modernise operations and improve efficiency. Key announcements include CoPilot Driver Assistant, offering voice-activated in-cab navigation, and Route Orchestration for PC*Miler software, which unifies planning and execution workflows. The company also launched Advanced Trailer Orchestration for its Dock & Yard offering, connecting appointment planning with live arrival visibility. Trimble enhanced its TMT Fleet Maintenance AI Invoice Scanning, which can now batch-process up to 100 vendor invoices simultaneously. The company claims this saved more than 136,000 minutes across 19,500 invoices compared to manual data entry. The firm also announced browser-based modernisations to its core Carrier TMS platforms, including TMW.Suite, TruckMate, Innovative and Fuel Dispatch, designed to enable collaboration between human operators and AI agents.
Trimble has launched four new GNSS receiver modules featuring its Maxwell 8 technology, targeting OEM integrators in geospatial, marine, construction and mining industries. The BD1090, BD1092, BD1092i and BX1092i receivers offer enhanced anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities through Trimble JammerGuard technology. The receivers provide expanded channel capacity for simultaneous multi-constellation tracking, four times the processing power of previous models, and improved performance in high-vibration environments. They're designed for compatibility with emerging low-earth orbit constellations, including Xona Pulsar demonstration signals. Van Oord, an international marine contractor, reported improved results during testing of the anti-jamming technology across Middle East and Baltic operations. The new technology aims to reduce downtime in industries where positioning accuracy is critical.
/PRNewswire/ -- Trimble announced today the acquisition of Terasat Japan, one of the largest virtual reference station (VRS) service providers in the Japanese...
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