Controls Engineer
Lincoln Electric
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Euclid • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
NumpyPython
About the role
- Design and simulate digital and analog compensators for power converters and motor drives using tools such as Python/NumPy/SciPy, SPICE, and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Perform frequency-domain and time-domain analysis to ensure system stability and robustness.
- Develop analog and digital signal processing systems for feedback conditioning and waveform control.
- Work with firmware engineers to translate control designs into firmware implementations using C/C++ or model-based code generation.
- Tune control loops in real-time systems, including PID, PI, lead-lag, state space, and nonlinear controllers.
- Support hardware bring-up and debugging of control systems in lab environments.
- Create detailed models of power electronic systems including converters, inverters, and motor loads.
- Analyze system dynamics, parasitics, and nonlinearities to improve control performance.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to co-design control and power stages.
- Stay current with emerging control techniques, digital signal processing, and power electronics trends.
- Propose and prototype novel control strategies to improve performance, efficiency, and reliability.
- Document design processes, simulation results, and tuning procedures for knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Systems and Control Engineering, or related field.
- Level II Engineer 3+ years of hands-on, controls engineering experience.
- Level III Engineer 5+ years of hands-on, controls engineering experience.
- Level IV Engineer 8+ years of hands-on, controls engineering experience.
- Proficiency in simulation tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, SPICE, PLECS, PSIM, or equivalents.
- Strong understanding of control theory, compensator design, system dynamics, and signal processing.
- Experience with embedded systems and real-time control applications.
- Familiarity with real-time operating systems, digital signal processors, and microcontrollers.
- Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, frequency response analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and power analyzers.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonNumPySciPySPICEMATLABSimulinkCC++control theorysignal processing
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationteamwork