Principal Software Engineer - Motor Control

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Portage, MI, 49002, US
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Work flexibility: Hybrid Req ID: R535342 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Engineering Travel: 10% Relocation: Yes

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What You Will Do:

 We are seeking an experienced Software Motor Control Engineer to design, develop, and implement software algorithms for motor control applications. The ideal candidate will have experience with embedded systems, real-time operating systems, and motor control algorithms.

This role requires a combination of software development, electrical engineering, and system-level design to create high-efficiency, reliable, and scalable motor control solutions.

Technical Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and optimize software algorithms on microcontrollers for brushed and brushless DC motor applications
  • Implement embedded motor control strategies such as PID, Trapezoidal, FOC (field-oriented control) and PWM.
  • Develop embedded software for real-time motor control systems, ensuring high efficiency, stability, safety, and performance.
  • Tuning motor control algorithms with MATLAB simulations to optimize performance, torque, speed, and thermal behavior.
  • Perform system wide software verification and validation testing at the component, subsystem, and system level.
  • Collaborate with hardware and mechanical teams to ensure proper integration of motor drivers, sensors, and power electronics within the embedded system.

General Responsibilities:

  • Lead and support team members to create or improve procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology requirements with cross functional teams including R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success
  • Lead code reviews for projects/systems as independent reviewer applying design principals, coding standards and best practices

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline
  • 8+ years of professional work experience in the embedded motor controller environment 
  • Experienced with embedded C/C++ applications running on a RTOS 
  • Experience testing and implementing brushed and brushless motor topologies 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Collaboratively lead strategies for integrated development environments (IDE) structures for projects 
  • Collaboratively lead strategies with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software 
  • Lead the adoption of Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability best practices and tools 
  • Lead teams in creating estimates for code implementation including time/resources for projects 


 

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Financial benefits include:Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

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