Job Title: Control System Engineer

Location: Westminster, CO

Department: Trimble Ag Industry Solutions (AgIS)

Does the idea of designing algorithms for automated motion control systems from the ground up ignite your passion?

About the Role

The role involves designing automatic motion control systems algorithms for off-highway industrial machinery such as tractors, combines, excavators, and dozers. Responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and optimizing core control algorithms using MATLAB/Simulink or C/C++, and integrating these into products.

What You Will Do

Design, develop, and productize control law algorithms.
Use MATLAB/Simulink for model-based design (MBD).
Apply sensor fusion and filter design for pose estimation.
Design signal conditioning and feedback loop compensation.
Develop and validate non-linear vehicle dynamics plant models.
Evaluate algorithms in simulations and target environments.
Support integration and performance validation on real-time hardware/operating systems.
Define system/software architecture.
Ensure ongoing testing and product quality

What Skills & Experience You Should Have

7+ years of experience in control algorithm development for dynamic systems.
Master’s or PhD Engineering Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, GNC, or related fields, preferred.
Experience with MATLAB/Simulink development.
Practical experience with automatic controls of off-highway machinery.
Experience in test, verification, validation, and productization of algorithms.
Familiarity with requirements decomposition and management tools.
Experience with plant simulation tools.
Ability to travel up to 10% annually.

What Skills & Experience You Could Have

Experience in state estimation (Kalman filters).
Experience leading small technical projects.
Simulink auto-code generation.
Experience with GNSS+IMU state estimation.
Autonomous/Semi-autonomous vehicle control.
Experience with Systems Identification, Simscape, or similar tools.
Safety-critical software development and certification.
HIL and SIL testing.
Proficiency in C/C++ software development.
Experience with the ROS ecosystem.
Background in guidance, navigation, and control for missiles, ships, submarines, or autonomous vehicles.

About AgIS

Trimble AgIS provides GNSS and Control System-based hardware and software technologies for implementing customer solutions, including those for the PTx Trimble JV with Agco.

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We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

Pay Equity

Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Hiring Range:

144584

195252

Bonus Eligible?

Yes

Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Trimble is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and embrace our
candidates’ diversity and take affirmative action to employ and advance individuals
without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
religion, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, pregnancy (including
childbirth or related medical conditions), national origin, marital status, genetic
information, and all other legally protected characteristics. We forbid discrimination and
harassment in the workplace based on any protected status or characteristic. A criminal
history is not an automatic bar to employment with the Company, and we consider
qualified applicants consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

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