Embedded Controls Engineer - PCS (Power Conversion System)

The role

This person will own and expand the control software for a power conversion system. They will evolve a Simulink implementation into a real-time application through modeling, simulation, and deployment.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, development, validation, deployment, and long-term health of the PCS control application.
• Develop, modify, and maintain model-based application software using MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow.
• Establish and maintain a scalable Simulink architecture.
• Define execution rates, scheduling, I/O abstraction, and deterministic real-time behavior.
• Design and tune closed-loop controls for power conversion and related processes.
• Develop controls including operating modes, sequencing, state machines, interlocks, limits, and transition logic.
• Perform mathematical modeling, simulation, and analysis of stability and dynamic response.
• Integrate sensor-plausibility capabilities and develop diagnostics.
• Define fault responses, degraded operating behavior, and safe-state actions.
• Develop and execute Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, and Hardware-in-the-Loop testing.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience developing and deploying model-based embedded controls for automotive powertrain, motorsport, propulsion, aerospace, or similarly demanding real-time systems.
• Strong MATLAB and Simulink experience, including architecture and maintenance of production-scale models and model-based code-generation workflows.
• Experience taking controls from simulation through Model-in-the-Loop / Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop or bench testing, and deployment onto real-time embedded hardware.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with McLaren Applied / Motion Applied control systems and tooling, including TAG ECUs, vTAG, ATLAS, or related Simulink-based application-development workflows
• Strong understanding of control theory, dynamic systems, feedback-control design, diagnostics, and state-based supervisory logic
• Ability to take ownership of an existing controls implementation and work effectively across disciplines
• Experience developing powertrain, hybrid, energy-management, or other embedded controls in professional motorsport, high-performance automotive, or aerospace programs
• Experience with Simulink Coder, Embedded Coder, Stateflow, or comparable production model-based code-generation toolchains
• Experience with multi-rate models, deterministic execution, task scheduling, model references and libraries, and parameter or calibration management
• Experience with calibration, instrumentation, telemetry, data logging, and test workflows common to automotive, motorsport, or aerospace controls development
• Experience with embedded communications and vehicle networks such as CAN, and with integrating sensors, actuators, and real-time I/O
• Experience developing sensor plausibility checks, diagnostics, fault detection, safe-state behavior, and degraded operating modes
• Experience analyzing noisy, drifting, failed, or otherwise unreliable signals involving temperature, voltage, current, pressure, flow, speed, or torque measurements

About the company

Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors to make clean energy abundant. The team includes members from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, and various national laboratories.