Principal Software Engineer - Motor Control

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What You Will Do:

 We are seeking an experienced Software Motor Control Engineer to design, develop, and implement software algorithms for motor control applications. The ideal candidate will have experience with embedded systems, real-time operating systems, and motor control algorithms.

This role requires a combination of software development, electrical engineering, and system-level design to create high-efficiency, reliable, and scalable motor control solutions.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize software algorithms on microcontrollers for brushed and brushless DC motor applications
• Implement embedded motor control strategies such as PID, Trapezoidal, FOC (field-oriented control) and PWM.
• Develop embedded software for real-time motor control systems, ensuring high efficiency, stability, safety, and performance.
• Tuning motor control algorithms with MATLAB simulations to optimize performance, torque, speed, and thermal behavior.
• Perform system wide software verification and validation testing at the component, subsystem, and system level.
• Collaborate with hardware and mechanical teams to ensure proper integration of motor drivers, sensors, and power electronics within the embedded system.

General Responsibilities:

• Lead and support team members to create or improve procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology requirements with cross functional teams including R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success
• Lead code reviews for projects/systems as independent reviewer applying design principals, coding standards and best practices

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline
• 8+ years of professional work experience in the embedded motor controller environment 
• Experienced with embedded C/C++ applications running on a RTOS 
• Experience testing and implementing brushed and brushless motor topologies 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Collaboratively lead strategies for integrated development environments (IDE) structures for projects 

• Collaboratively lead strategies with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software 

• Lead the adoption of Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability best practices and tools 

• Lead teams in creating estimates for code implementation including time/resources for projects 

 

Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

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