Controls System Architect

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:
**Essential Job Functions**
- Provide Technical solutions in controls
- Must have sound engineering principles and adhere to business standards, practices, and procedures, to develop product / program requirements.
- Experience in Controls Architecture for machines
- Lead and guide the team in Controls and hardware development of locomotive subsystems, from requirements development to model development, testing and validating designs on locomotive and in the simulation lab, utilizing tools like MATLAB, Simulink, Doors and ClearQuest.
- Lead the investigation, root-cause identification, and resolution of reliability issues.
- Execute a variety of projects ensuring proper definition of requirements and interfaces for various subsystems
- Lead the team in design, integration, implementation and validation of the subsystem functions and Human Machine Interface for locomotives
- Present to customers and suppliers and lead technical endeavors to develop technologies for the railroad industry
- Ensure that the documentation of technical data generated for the assigned project is consistent with engineering policies and procedures
- coordinate, support and review technical aspects of opportunities, proposals, and projects with a deep technical understanding of the same and excellent domain knowledge

**Secondary Job Functions**:
At Quest, we often challenge our team members to temporarily work outside the scope of their primary job functions to broaden their skills and help the organization. Some of these roles and opportunities include:

- Execution within multiple services
- Project Management: Execution and Support
- Technical Leadership and Technical Reviews
- Develop work instructions to ensure repeatability
- Personnel Management
- Onboarding and Professional Development: collaborate and mentor Quest Team Members & Cross-functional teams
- Knowledge working with Local Global teams
- Quality Management and Continuous Improvement

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in a STEM discipline.
- Master in Power electronics / Controls engineering
- Experience of 15 to 20years in control system design and architecture
- Expert in RTOS control design, hardware design, diagnostics, or test

Desired characteristics:

- Expert in MATLAB Simulink or other Modeling tools,
- Extensive knowledge on MBD Practice
- Experience with Electrical machines, power electronics and logic/algorithm design
- Expert in system, subsystem, and component level validation testing
- Expert in designing the HIL system
- Experience with transportation/locomotive systems control design and test
- Experience with Human Machine Interface and human factors analysis for embedded systems
- Experience with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools (i.e., FMEA, Score Cards)
- Strong technical aptitude, including applicable engineering tools and systems
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills

**Education Type**
- B.E/B.Tech/BS-Electronics and Communication Engineering

**Job Type**
- Full Time-Regular

**Experience Level**
- Mid Level

**Total Years of Exp**
- 8+