About this role
Role Overview
Apply control engineering expertise to help train next-generation AI systems using high-quality, real-world technical input. This remote contract role focuses on designing and deploying robust controllers, modeling complex physical plants, and improving real-world system performance. No prior AI experience is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and tune PID and advanced controllers, including LQR, MPC, and Kalman filters, for physical systems such as robotics, drones, automotive platforms, and industrial hardware.
- Develop plant models from first principles and validate them against empirical data using state-space and transfer-function methods.
- Implement and verify control algorithms in Python using open-source tools such as python-control, SciPy, CasADi, do-mpc, Julia ControlSystems, and OpenModelica.
- Analyze system performance, identify improvements, and iterate on designs for optimal real-world operation.
- Document control strategies and engineering decisions clearly, and participate in precise written and verbal technical discussions.
- Collaborate remotely with interdisciplinary contributors while working with technical independence.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Control, Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, or Aerospace Engineering.
- More than 5 years of hands-on controller-design experience after completing your degree, including deployment on real systems rather than simulation-only work.
- Experience designing PID controllers, building physical plant models, and validating models through first-principles and data-driven approaches.
- Demonstrated delivery of PID control and at least one modern method, LQR, MPC, or Kalman filtering, on real hardware.
- Python proficiency for control-code development, debugging, and validation with open-source toolchains.
- Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills with an emphasis on clarity and precision.
- Additional valued experience includes a Master’s or PhD, production MPC using do-mpc or CasADi, Modelica or OpenModelica, Julia, system identification, embedded C/C++, ROS, nonlinear, robust, or adaptive control, and publication or open-source contributions.
Work Terms
- Remote contract engagement.
Compensation
- $30 to $50 per hour.
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