Control System Engineer

Location: Westminster, CO

Department: Trimble Ag Industry Solutions (AgIS)

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.

Industries Served

• PTx Trimble (f.k.a. Trimble Agriculture)

• Trimble Civil Construction
   

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