Control Systems Engineer

Amentum•Huntsville, AL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Amentum Space Exploration Division (ASED) where your growth is a priority, offering exciting opportunities for career development through programs like the Team Lead Academy, education reimbursement, personalized mentoring, and engaging company-sponsored networking events. ASED celebrates a vibrant array of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, fostering an environment of dignity and respect for employees, clients, and partners. The extensive benefits package is designed with your health in mind, including wellness programs, paid holidays, generous time off, and employee perks to help achieve a harmonious work-life balance. The dynamic team is united in a mission to venture from Moon to Mars and beyond. This position is aligned with the Amentum Space Exploration Group (ASEG) on the Engineering Services and Science Capability Augmentation (ESSCA) contract, offering personal and professional growth with strong leadership support, competitive compensation, work/home life balance, and an emphasis on safety.

Requirements

BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, or Physics with at least 2 years of experience in control systems is required.
Degree from an ABET accredited institution is preferred.
Typically, educational requirements are the equivalent of a Ph.D. with a minimum 4 years of experience; Masters with at least 8 years of experience, or a BS with at least 10 years of experience.
Excellent verbal and writing skills.
Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic fluid control systems, valves and actuators for automated control of position, force, pressure and velocity.
Experience with electric motor control systems, Variable Frequency Drives or servo-motors.
Experience with embedded systems and microcontrollers such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, cRIO or similar.
Experience with communication protocols such as ethercat, profinet, RS-232, RS485, CAN, I2C, SPI
Experience with data acquisition hardware such as cDAQ, PXI, HBK, Dewetron, Dewesoft, Gantner or similar hardware.
Knowledge of basic instrumentation applications - utilizing strain gauges, load cells, pressure transducers, thermocouples, and displacement sensors.
Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Desire to conduct detailed hands-on work in a Lab testing environment on sub scale models to full scale structures in some of NASA’s largest indoor and outdoor test facilities.

Responsibilities

Operate, maintain and troubleshoot existing test control systems.
Perform setup and modification of existing test control systems.
Specify and tune feedback control loop algorithms for optimum performance.
Design and implement new test control systems.
Coordinate transducer and actuator installation, writing technical procedures to be performed by technicians.
Coordination with NASA customers across organizations to ensure mission success.
Work with a diverse team of civil servants and contractors to design, develop, set up, and perform structural testing on space flight qualification hardware, and other mission critical hardware.
Participate in Beyond Zero Safety Culture, attend safety meetings, task meetings, design reviews, and test readiness reviews as requested to support ESSCA and customer requirements.
Develop and deliver reports and presentations as requested to support ESSCA and customer requirements.
Perform safety and certification training to support ESSCA and customer requirements.