Control Engineer

Are you interested in advancing your career in the domain of control engineering?

We offer you the possibility to work for leading international high-tech companies and in parallel develop your technical knowledge, soft skills, and strategic thinking.

High Tech Source is recruitment partner for many top tier international high-tech companies. Our clients excel in designing, developing, and bringing to market the world’s most leading and complex high-tech equipment. Examples of these products and systems are: a lithography machine, an electron microscope and an implantable medical device, or clients working on the most innovative automotive, drone or robotic solutions. An increasing proportion of this high-tech equipment and products consists of software as an enabler for pushing boundaries, optimizing development and machine-performance, and enhancing user experience.

For a partner active in the aerospace industry, we’re looking for a Control Engineer . Are you interested?

The challenge:

We’re looking for a skilled Control Engineer with experience in developing, optimizing, and integrating control solutions for complex high-tech systems. You will join an international, multidisciplinary engineering team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with hardware, electronics, mechatronics, and software teams to achieve the highest possible system performance.

You will also take a leading role in the control design of our client's advanced high-tech products within a dynamic, fast-growing startup environment. From a control systems perspective, you will act as the key link between customers, suppliers, and their high-tech production environment helping them deliver cost-competitive, high-performance solutions.

What we’re Looking For:

• Design lead for the control & dynamics aspects of space optical communication products

• Control loop design and optimization of high-bandwidth (kHz) actuators and sensors to achieve micro-radian pointing control

• Design of control algorithms for pointing, acquisition, and tracking of our optical communication products

• Manage partners, subcontractors, and suppliers from a control systems & dynamics point of view • Iterate and transfer controller designs into the product software together with the software engineers

• Work in close collaboration within a multidisciplinary (multi-company) team of optical, mechanical, systems, electrical, and software engineers

• Contribute both on the theoretical/analytical side of control & dynamics as well as with hardware setups to verify controller designs

• Be proactive and help out wherever you can add value and shape the company

• Provide support in setting up the factory, tooling, and production facilities from a control perspective

Your profile:

• You have a degree at the level of higher professional education (HBO) or university (WO) in Systems and Control, Mechatronics, or similar

• You have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a comparable control engineering position, preferably in the high-tech industry

• Excellent knowledge of (high-speed) control engineering and mechatronic system design

• Knowledge of sensors, actuators, and the physical principles behind them

• You are enthusiastic, flexible, and show initiative and perseverance

• You are pragmatic, can work with a high degree of independence, and take initiative in building the company

• You are ambitious, solution-oriented, and a true team player

• You are entrepreneurial and creative, and you recognize and translate technical problems or new developments into working solutions