AKKA ranks as the European leader in engineering consulting and R&D services in the mobility sector. As an innovation accelerator for its clients, AKKA supports leading industry players in the automotive, telco&media, industrial, aerospace, rail and life-sciences sectors throughout the life cycle of their products with cutting edge digital technologies (AI, ADAS, IoT, Big Data, robotics, embedded computing, machine learning, etc.).

With a view to strengthening our team, we are looking for:

Control System Engineer

During the activity the candidate will develop his/her expertise in: Design Controls and Estimation Algorithms.

The activities include:

• Requirements understanding;
• Design;
• Calibration;
• Validation;
• Spec definition;
• Definition of calibration procedures.

The ideal candidate has a Master's Degree in mechanical, electronics or mechatronics engineering and at least 2 years of experience working in the same role. Good problem solving and team working skills, autonomy in the organization of assigned tasks and result orientation are required. Availability for national and international geographic mobility and an excellent knowledge of the English language are also required.

Requirements

Control Theory and Application in continuous and discrete time domain

• Main control system design methods;
• PID controller: theory and applications;
• Direct control synthesis and adaptive control;
• Control Algorithms implementation.

Identification and filtering:

• Sampling and reconstruction of signals;
• Signals filters: theory and applications;
• System identification methods.

Software:

• Matlab, Simulink;
• Basics programming languages.

Nice to have

Modeling and simulation of physical systems

Laboratory skills

• Able to build a testing setup to measure and log temperatures of a system;
• Main lab instrumentations (datalogger, power meter, oscilloscope, multimeter).

Offer

Permanent contract

Place of work

Milan

Founded in 1984, AKKA has a strong entrepreneurial culture and is pursuing fast-paced growth and international development in line with its strategic plan CLEAR 2022.  The Group continues to recruit at a steady pace to support its strong business growth.  As of 31 December 2020, the Group had 20.000 employees on an international level. Driven by its expertise in future mobility, digital and industry 4.0 technologies, the Group’s 2020 revenues amount to €1.503.5 million.