Model-Based Controls Engineer – Field Services

LHP Engineering Solutions is a Functional Safety global leader committed to creating safe transportation with developing technologies such as Electric Vehicles, Advance Driver Assistance Systems. At LHP we ensure Functional Safety and Cyber Security development of these systems and technologies by leveraging our core expertise with widely accepted standards such as AUTOSAR, ISO26262, ASPICE, ISO/SAE 21434.

We seek a Model-Based Controls Engineer to join our Field Services team (onsite everyday), located in Erie, PA.

Duties and responsibilities for this role include:

• Confirming new software features integrate with control system to meet functionality requirements
• Controls and model requirements definition, controls architecting, design, analysis, implementation, and verification using MIL, SIL, and HIL techniques consistent with design requirements
• Designing and providing technical documents for the developed controls
• Designing, modeling, and integrating software functionalities in a real-time embedded environment
• Developing and analyzing requirements
• Developing controls solutions using the MBD technique
• Ensuring process compliance and configuration management
• Following common problem-solving techniques, such as 5 why’s, fishbone, etc.
• Participating in software reviews
• Providing technical support, guidance, and collaboration for all software/hardware implementation
• Working with product development teams to design and develop control algorithms

Field Services-Specific Responsibilities

• Participate in daily field issue triage meetings where customer-reported issues are reviewed and prioritized
• Act as a first-line technical owner to evaluate issues, identify the source (software, controls, integration, or hardware), and drive root cause analysis
• Develop initial problem assessments and potential solution approaches, then coordinate handoff to the appropriate product or platform teams for resolution
• Demonstrate strong system-level thinking to assess impacts across subsystems and interfaces
• Provide clear, concise communication to internal teams and customer stakeholders on issue status and findings
• Support software deployment/loading issues encountered in the field
• Collaborate across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams to resolve time-sensitive issues
• Exhibit flexibility to respond to urgent field problems and shifting priorities
• Travel as needed to locomotive units or customer sites to diagnose issues, capture data, and support root cause investigations

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be willing to work onsite in Erie, Pennsylvania
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in mechanical, electrical or computer engineering and 3+ years of pertinent experience
• Knowledge and capability in software such as MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow
• Advanced level knowledge and capability in Modeling/Simulation skills
• Advanced level knowledge and capability of at least one scripting language
• Understanding of communication protocol
• Understanding of control systems in automotive or medical devices
• Understanding of HIL systems
• User level knowledge and capability in UML and architectures
• User level knowledge and capability of at least one calibration tool
• User level knowledge and capability of at least one standard code editor
• User level knowledge and capability of MBD design guidelines
• User level knowledge and capability of Version Control/Requirements Management software
• Ability to perform gap analysis
• Ability to decipher highly technical data
• User level knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous development (CD)
• Ability to multi-task in an ever-changing time intensive work environment
• Ability to solve complex problems and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Strong system-level thinking and root cause analysis capability
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including customer-facing interactions
• Willingness to travel for field diagnostics and issue resolution as needed
• Locomotive domain knowledge is a plus

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