Controls Engineer

Want to live at the beach and work for a growing defense technology company?

Raglan is looking for a full-time Controls Engineer to help build the operating system for the next generation of defense vehicles. We develop advanced ground mobility solutions for the warfighter, and we're adding a senior controls engineer to our RevengOS team.

About the role

Raglan has a growing list of efforts to replace the control systems in military ground vehicles. You'll be responsible for the complete system replacement — from teardown and bus/wiring, reverse engineering, building new controls in a variety of IDE’s using a mix of C similar languages and model-based software, dyno calibration, and on-vehicle validation. The work spans engine, transmission, abs/stability, and body/power-distribution control across diesel and hybrid platforms.

This is a peer-level role. We expect you to take a subsystem and run with it independently — derive the strategy, write the code, help drive harness design, and validate on the vehicle.

What you'll do

• Reverse engineer OEM ECU/TCM/BCM/ABS behavior, CAN/LIN traffic, and wiring — recovering control logic from bus captures, scope traces, and where necessary decompiled firmware.
• Develop embedded control software in C/C similar languages on automotive-grade microcontrollers, and model-based control strategies in MATLAB/Simulink.
• Own engine, transmission, and body/power-distribution control: fueling and ignition/injection strategy, clutch-to-clutch shift control, output fusing and load-protection logic.
• Define the vehicle CAN architecture and author DBC databases
• Configure, integrate, and calibrate across controller platforms — MoTeC, Emtron, Life Racing, New Eagle, Bosch, etc.
• Calibrate and validate on a 4-wheel chassis dyno and real work environments, closing the loop between model, calibration, and measured vehicle behavior.
• Help drive wiring harnesses design for controller, sensor, and actuator integration.
• Diagnose firmware, hardware, and vehicle-level faults under durability-critical conditions

What you should bring

• First-principles understanding of internal combustion engine and drivetrain operation — combustion, fueling, torque management, shift mechanics — strong enough to derive a control strategy without an OEM reference to copy
• Model-based control development in MATLAB/Simulink (Stateflow a plus)
• Deep CAN bus fluency: protocol decode, DBC authoring, and reverse engineering with a logic analyzer, and CAN tools (e.g. CANalyzer)
• Hands-on calibration and validation on engine and/or chassis dynamometers
• Experience reverse engineering OEM systems to build an alternate control solution
• Comfort owning a subsystem across software, hardware, and full-vehicle integration

Requirements

· Must be able to lift 25 lbs

· Must be comfortable in a manufacturing environment

· Must be able to wear and utilize PPE such as safety glasses bump caps. etc.

Due to the nature of this work and applicable U.S. government regulations, applicants must be U.S citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

· Some Travel Required

Preferred / bonus experience

• Transmission control and calibration — multi-clutch or automatic shift control
• Power distribution / body control logic development
• ABS and traction control systems
• Hybrid, EV, or BMS / charging systems
• UI/UX for calibration tools or in-vehicle display
• Defense sector experience
• Motorsport, endurance racing, or other durability-critical vehicle backgrounds
• Production embedded experience in C/C on microcontrollers: timing, interrupts, and peripheral/driver-level work
• Wiring harness design, from schematic through build
• Management / leadership

Work Model & Location

• Location: Wilmington NC
• Work Model: Salary, In Person

Pay: $125,000.00 - $250,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Relocation assistance
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $125,000 - $250,000