Top Controls Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Support a remote contract project by configuring design libraries, smart features, systems, and templates in AutoCAD Electrical. The engineer will apply strong AutoCAD Electrical expertise to establish and organize electrical design resources during a two-month project.

Designs, programs, tests, installs, and supports PLC-based automation systems for conveyor, ASRS, robotic, and packaging equipment. Responsibilities include control cabinet design, PLC programming with Allen Bradley and Siemens platforms, BOM generation, material sourcing, system commissioning, I/O verification, troubleshooting, vendor coordination, and technical client liaison duties. The role also supports multiple project installations and requires customer-site travel.

Design and develop control systems for production robots, translating high-level motion commands into precise whole-body behavior. Implement hierarchical feedback loops, motor control software, compliant and force-sensitive controllers, and QP-based whole-body control. Develop embedded, real-time software integrated with custom hardware and communication interfaces. Build pipelines for sensing, encoder calibration, filtering, synchronization, and system characterization while ensuring robotic safety, timing, reliability, and robustness.

Design, program, commission, and troubleshoot PLC/HMI-based control systems for mission-critical AI data center infrastructure. Responsibilities include control panel and schematic design, network and protocol configuration, VFD controls, P&ID-based logic development, BMS integration, FAT/SAT support, commissioning, field troubleshooting, and maintaining engineering documentation. The role collaborates with mechanical, electrical, and systems engineers and requires onsite work in San Francisco, Long Beach, or Houston.

Develop production control and localization systems for heavy autonomous vehicles. Design and tune MPC and PID algorithms, build GPS/RTK and IMU-based localization and state-estimation pipelines, analyze field-test logs, and integrate controls with perception, planning, and hardware. The role requires onsite work in San Francisco and up to 15% travel to customer deployment and testing sites.

Designs and delivers EPMS, electrical telemetry, and industrial controls solutions for Microsoft AI datacenters. Responsibilities include defining instrumentation and communications requirements, configuring EPMS hardware and networks, developing system integrations, testing and commissioning technologies, troubleshooting complex electrical and controls issues, producing technical documentation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, vendor, commissioning, and deployment teams.

Own the pointing and tracking control loop for laser links between satellites and ground platforms. Design, implement, tune, simulate, and validate real-time embedded controllers in Rust, integrating onboard sensors and actuators. Perform stability analysis, HIL testing, automated validation, anomaly investigation, root cause analysis, and FDIR development. Collaborate with GNC, optics, avionics, and firmware teams on system architecture and hardware-software integration.

Leads instrumentation and controls engineering for greenfield manufacturing capital projects, including instrument selection, sizing, specification, procurement, installation, commissioning, design reviews, documentation, SIS integration, loop checks, calibration, FAT/SAT, and startup. Collaborates with process, automation, vendors, and external engineering partners while providing technical leadership across construction and commissioning activities.

Develop and commission custom electromechanical manufacturing equipment for aircraft assembly and testing. Design scalable PLC software in Structured Text, build HMIs, create electrical schematics and panel layouts, select controls components and sensors, and support wiring, validation, and production deployment. Collaborate with manufacturing and test engineers to deliver reliable automation systems.

Own controls standards and reference architectures for mechanical systems in large-scale AI data centers. Design control narratives, sequences, automation, instrumentation, alarms, PLC/DDC/BMS requirements, and system responses to failures and changing loads. Review vendor designs, coordinate cross-functional controls requirements, support testing and commissioning, troubleshoot control issues, and incorporate operational lessons into future standards. Travel to project sites and partner facilities as needed.

Own mechanical controls standards and automation architectures for large-scale AI data centers. Develop sequences, control narratives, points lists, alarm matrices, and controller requirements for cooling and heat-rejection systems. Review designs, coordinate cross-functional controls requirements, support testing and commissioning, troubleshoot control issues, and improve standards using operational lessons. The role requires expertise in PLC, DDC, BMS, instrumentation, control loops, industrial communications, and mechanical cooling systems, with travel to project and partner sites as needed.

Designs and commissions automated robotic, CNC, and tooling cells from concept through production handoff. Responsibilities include PLC, robot, HMI, motion-control, electrical-panel, industrial-network, machine-vision, sensor, and safety-device integration. The engineer performs floor commissioning, risk assessments, root-cause analysis, and customer run-offs while collaborating with manufacturing, tooling, software, and program-management teams. The role also mentors engineers and technicians and develops reusable controls libraries and standards.

Own control architecture for rotating machinery and test rigs, including compressors, motor drives, expansion turbines, and thermofluid loops. Develop safety interlocks, fault handling, speed-based capacity control, and hardware-in-the-loop validation. Tune controls on live machines, investigate model-to-plant discrepancies, integrate production chillers with site BMS and plant systems, and document systems for operations teams.

Design, build, and operate backend services for enterprise permissions, authorization, governance, sharing, and administration across OpenAI products. Lead architecture and delivery of complex initiatives, translate ambiguous enterprise requirements into reliable system behavior, and develop scalable APIs and reusable services. Own production reliability, security, performance, testing, observability, debugging, and continuous improvement while coordinating with product and engineering teams.

Designs and leads industrial automation control systems for material-handling solutions. Responsibilities include developing PLC programs, schematics, specifications, prototypes, automated equipment sequences, and manufacturing transitions. The role leads projects, performs testing and field investigations, ensures safety and reliability, manages schedules and costs, and mentors junior engineers. Requires significant controls engineering experience, Allen-Bradley expertise, industrial automation knowledge, and up to 50% domestic travel.

Designs and leads industrial control systems for automated material-handling solutions. Responsibilities include developing PLC programs, control schematics, equipment sequences, prototypes, and specifications; testing systems; investigating field issues; coordinating manufacturing transitions; and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires leading projects, collaborating with electrical and project teams, and traveling domestically up to 40% for site beta testing and support.

Designs and develops industrial control systems for automated material-handling equipment. Responsibilities include PLC programming, control-panel schematics, HMI and SCADA integration, prototype development, testing, troubleshooting, and leading large or multiple projects. The role collaborates with electrical and project teams, supports manufacturing transitions, mentors junior engineers, and conducts onsite beta testing. Domestic travel within North America may reach 40%.

Designs and develops industrial automation control systems for material handling solutions, including automated equipment sequences, control panel schematics, PLC programs, prototypes, and testing. Leads projects, supports manufacturing transition, investigates field issues, and ensures safety, reliability, performance, and cost objectives. The role also provides technical direction and training, manages schedules and estimates, and performs domestic travel for beta testing and customer-related activities.

Lead controls and instrumentation engineering for novel mineral refining facilities from concept through commissioning, ramp, and handover. Manage equipment providers, licensors, engineering firms, and cross-functional technical teams. Oversee instrument, valve, analyzer, network, and control-system selection and installation; support industrial machine-learning optimization and workflow automation. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to medium-to-large capital project execution, plant-network security, and development of the internal engineering team.

Own embedded controls and firmware for prototype and deployed microturbines, taking systems from initial hardware integration through startup, steady-state operation, testing, and safe shutdown. Responsibilities include sensor selection, P&ID and valve decisions, control logic, troubleshooting unfamiliar hardware, turbine data transmission, and on-site installation and commissioning. The role requires close collaboration with test teams and substantial field work on safety-critical rotating machinery.

Designs, programs, tests, commissions, troubleshoots, and optimizes industrial control systems. Configures PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and related control devices using automation programming languages. Develops system architectures, control philosophies, cause-and-effect diagrams, and control algorithms; supports on-site startup and commissioning. Collaborates with engineers, technicians, project managers, and customers while maintaining strong safety standards. The role includes approximately 25% domestic travel and requires industrial field experience, customer communication, and familiarity with major controls platforms.

Develop motion-planning and control algorithms for outdoor construction robots, deploy them on hardware, benchmark and tune them for robust real-world operation, and integrate them with perception and learning components. Interns own scoped projects, work with mentors, and demonstrate results. Projects may include safe-stop and human-avoidance behaviors or manipulation from moving platforms on rough terrain.

Design and implement control algorithms for robotics, develop real-time control loops, and debug complex hardware/software issues while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develops and validates safety-critical motor control systems for electric, fly-by-wire aircraft. Responsibilities include PMSM control, inverter PWM, position and velocity estimation, fault management, servo actuation, Simulink modeling, C/C++ implementation, dynamometer and aircraft testing, system tuning, requirements decomposition, and PIL/HIL verification.

Design, program, integrate, test, and deploy PLC-based control systems for ML-enabled robotic workcells. Develop HMIs, safety logic, and documentation; integrate sensors, I/O, and motion components; debug and commission systems; collaborate with software, ML, operations, and integration partners. Travel 20-30% for installations and deployments.