Senior Control Systems Engineer - Simulink

Senior Control Systems Engineer (Simulink/MATLAB) Wilmslow, Cheshire - Hybrid working, three days on site a week Up to £80,000 Our client is a genuinely innovative, IP led engineering business working at the sharp end of electrification, developing novel high power conversion technology that is about to leave the lab and head out into live field trials.

If you are the sort of engineer who would rather design the control strategy than be handed one, this is well worth your time The role Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will own the control side of the product. The core intellectual property of the system lives in the control algorithms, and those algorithms are designed, simulated and proven in MATLAB and Simulink using a model based design approach.

You will develop the control theory, build the models, prove in simulation that the control and the power electronics behave as they should together, and then generate production C code directly from Simulink. That generated code is wrapped by an in house embedded team who look after the low level drivers and the C framework around it, so your focus is squarely where it should be: the maths, the control theory and making a complex power electronic system behave itself.

In practical terms you will be taking measurements from sensors, deciding in real time what to do with significant amounts of electrical power, and making sure the system does exactly that, reliably, around the clock. If you have done this for an EV traction inverter, an industrial motor drive, a drivetrain or a power conversion system, you will recognise the problem immediately.

It is the same technology and the same thinking, just pointed at something rather more novel. Key responsibilities Design, model and tune closed loop control algorithms for high power converter systems in MATLAB and Simulink Build plant and system models to validate control strategies in simulation before they ever meet hardware Generate production quality C code from Simulink and integrate with the embedded team's hand written wrapper and drivers Support lab testing, hardware in the loop work and commissioning of systems designed for continuous 24/7 operation Work closely with the hardware lead on power electronics, potentially around a 70/30 split between control and power electronics for the right person Analyse performance data from fielded units to refine the control, add new features and functions, and contribute to future data driven services What we are looking for Expert level MATLAB and Simulink for control system design.

This is the non negotiable. Strong control theory and the mathematics that goes with it, applied to motors, drives or electrical power systems A detailed understa...

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