American Terawatt
Control Systems Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Mar 21, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of commercial engineering experience; professional or academic experience demonstrating in-depth control theory knowledge.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Develops, tests, validates, and deploys control software for HVDC terminals and transmission networks, including subsystem ownership and commissioning support.
What you'll do
- Own control software subsystems across development, testing, deployment, and maintenance; contribute to terminal and network control architecture.
- Validate control performance and robustness through simulation and SIL/HIL testing, and support commissioning.
- Improve controls software development pipelines, including CI/CD and issue tracking.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 3+ years of commercial engineering experience designing, implementing, and delivering control systems in safety-critical domains.
- Experience developing and validating controls with simulation tools such as MATLAB/Simulink or PLECS, and in-depth knowledge of control theory fundamentals.
- Experience validating controls on HIL and/or SIL platforms, plus version control, CI/CD, embedded or controls software practices, and debugging across software, firmware, and hardware.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Controls, or Power Systems.
- Exposure to real-time embedded control development, electromagnetic transient analysis, transmission grid simulation, power electronics control, grid-forming/grid-following strategies, or distributed/networked control systems.
Tools
MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, RTDS, OPAL-RT, C/C++, RTOS, PSCAD, EMTP
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