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CTCT is recruiting for an exceptional Vehicle Dynamics & Controls Simulation Engineer (Plant model development) to fill an opportunity in Chennai.
CTCT (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning and control products for heavy duty machines in the earthmoving, construction, and mining industries using technologies such as GPS, IMU, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance and automatic control of the worktool.

Job Summary
The Vehicle Dynamics & Controls Simulation Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining and integrating computer simulation models of electro-hydraulic mobile systems to support the development of real-time feedback control systems, which are then integrated in the automatic machine control products of the industries CTCT serves. To accomplish this objective the Vehicle Dynamics & Controls Simulation Engineer develops and validates full vehicle mathematical models (physics-based and/or data-based) which are computationally efficient. The Engineer also supports the successful deployment and adoption of simulation models by the control system algorithm development teams.

Success in this position involves working effectively with application domain experts within the established process framework and demonstrating fundamental plant modeling and engineering skills that result in work that is delivered on-time and of the quality expected from an industry leading organization.

Primary Duties :
Contributes to the development and deployment of plant model and simulation systems within the process framework established for the project. Contributes to the continuous improvement of these processes
Works with the project team, application domain experts and plant model users to establish achievable requirements
Active participant in project management through identification of project goals, establishing useful milestones, task breakdown, and effort estimates to support project scheduling, project tracking, and change control decisions
Creates simulation plant models of construction & mining machines and validates these models meet established requirements
Supports the successful deployment and adoption of the simulation plant model by the development teams that will use the models
Conducts technical design reviews as required by the project framework
Maintains and archives design documents, models, source code, and other deliverables required for the project
As necessary, works independently or with quality assurance personnel to plan and execute testing and data collection necessary to validate model performance
Other duties as required and requested by management

Required Skills / Qualifications:
BE (+3 years professional experience) or ME / PhD in Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Guidance Navigation and Control Engineering, or related engineering discipline
Demonstrated experience in at minimum 1 aspect of plant modeling
Multi-body Dynamics (including interaction with ground)
Hydraulics System Modeling
Sensor Simulation (GPS, IMU, etc.)
Controls System Design (MRAC, MPC, PID, etc.)
Demonstrated experience in MATLAB / Simulink
Knowledge of signal processing and statistical analysis techniques
Must possess effective analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and in a team-based environment, and effectively interact with a global team, while relentlessly working to meet business objectives

Desirable Skills / Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience in more than 1 aspect of plant modeling (see above)
Familiarity with Simscape or similar physical modeling software(Amesim, Adams,...)
Sufficient understanding of numerical methods to be able to diagnose and correct simulation performance issues
Ability to write high quality Matlab code including object oriented programming
Familiarity with version control for software or model-based systems
Exposure to reduced order modeling (ROM) techniques and/or machine/deep learning algorithms

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