Control Systems Engineer

The role

The Control Systems Engineer will develop and validate control approaches for sensing systems. This role connects modeling and simulation with hardware integration, test, and real-world system behavior.

What you will do

• Develop models and control algorithms for payload, pointing, stabilization, or subsystem functions.
• Translate performance requirements into control architectures, interfaces, and verification plans.
• Use simulation and test data to evaluate stability, robustness, and expected system performance.
• Support software, firmware, electronics, mechanical, and systems teams during integration and troubleshooting.
• Plan and execute model-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level validation.

Required qualifications

• Strong foundation in dynamics, feedback control, estimation, and system modeling.
• Experience developing, simulating, and validating controls for a physical system.
• Ability to work across analytical models, software implementation, hardware interfaces, and test data.
• Clear technical communication and disciplined documentation of assumptions and performance results.

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace, robotics, precision pointing, optical systems, or other tightly controlled hardware.
• Experience with real-time systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Familiarity with sensor fusion, calibration, or estimation under uncertain operating conditions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Early-stage equity package
• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
• Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to comply with U.S. expo

About the company

Matter is building the future of vision AI by pairing a sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model. The team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL and designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense.