Controls Engineer, Vehicle Controls

Garden Grove, CA

Controls and Electrical Engineering

About the Role

At Harbinger Motors in the Manufacturing space, Electrifying commercial transportation with American-made innovation and expertise.

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Harbinger</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.</span></p></div><h3><strong>Role Overview</strong></h3>

<p>Harbinger is looking for a Controls Engineer to join our Vehicle Controls team and help develop, validate, and debug the control algorithms that run our medium-duty EV and hybrid platforms. Working primarily on supervisory controls (vehicle state management, powertrain and energy management, torque arbitration, and fault handling), you will turn system requirements into production-quality Simulink/Stateflow models, verify them through model-in-the-loop (MIL) testing, and debug them on real vehicles using CAN data. You will also support other control domains as program needs evolve. You will work closely with systems, EE, and vehicle test teams, and your work will directly shape how our vehicles drive, protect themselves, and perform for fleet customers.</p>

<h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3>

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<li>Develop, maintain, and improve control algorithms in MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow, with a primary focus on vehicle supervisory controls (vehicle state machine, charging controls, thermal management, drive modes, torque request and arbitration, energy management, and diagnostics/fault reactions).</li>

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