Senior Controls Engineer, revengOS in Wilmington, North Carolina at Raglan

About Raglan

Raglan builds vehicles for today’s and tomorrow’s fight. We engineer mission-critical systems for defense, government, and commercial applications, bringing a warfighter’s perspective to modernizing tactical platforms and developing new capabilities.

Our work spans propulsion, software-defined vehicles, and modular exportable power systems—from open-architecture vehicle control software to hybrid platforms. We work closely with operators, program teams, and engineering partners to turn real-world requirements into systems built for demanding missions.

Based in Wilmington, North Carolina, Raglan is a Veteran-Owned Small Business. We’re looking for people ready to take ownership of the hardest mission-critical mobility challenges.

The mission

Join Raglan’s on-site engineering team in Wilmington, North Carolina, to build-new and modernize-existing military ground vehicle control systems with revengOS, helping deliver dependable mobility for the warfighter. You’ll own a subsystem end to end—from teardown and reverse engineering through control strategy, embedded software, calibration, and vehicle validation. This is a hands-on individual contributor role spanning software, hardware, and vehicle integration.

What you'll do

• Develop control strategies and software in MATLAB/Simulink and embedded C/C++ on automotive-grade microcontrollers.

• Implement subsystem controls for diesel and hybrid platforms, including engine fueling and torque management, transmission shifting, and body or power-distribution protection.
• Reverse engineer OEM controllers, wiring, and CAN/LIN traffic to recover subsystem behavior from bus captures, scope traces, and firmware analysis where needed.

• Define vehicle CAN architecture and author DBC databases for controller communication.

• Integrate and calibrate embedded controller platforms such as OpenECU, Emtron, ECOTRON, STW, MoTeC, TTControl, MotoHawk, Life Racing, New Eagle, and Bosch.

• Validate subsystem performance on a four-wheel chassis dynamometer and in real operating conditions, resolving differences between modeled and measured behavior.
• Help drive wiring harness design and integration for controllers, sensors, and actuators, diagnosing hardware, firmware, and vehicle-level faults.

What you bring

• A first-principles understanding of engine and drivetrain operation—including combustion, fueling, torque management, and shift mechanics—sufficient to derive control strategies without an OEM reference.

• Ability to develop model-based controls in MATLAB/Simulink and embedded control software in C/C++ on microcontrollers.

• Strong CAN skills, including protocol decoding, DBC authoring, and reverse engineering using CAN tools and logic analyzers.

• Hands-on experience calibrating and validating controls on engine or chassis dynamometers.

• Demonstrated ability to reverse engineer OEM systems and build an alternate control solution.

• Ability to independently own a subsystem across control strategy, software, hardware integration, and full-vehicle validation.

Nice to have

• Hybrid / Electric Vehicle system development experience. Torque management, battery management, charging, export power.
• Transmission control and calibration, including multi-clutch or automatic shift control.

• ABS, traction control, or body and power-distribution control experience.
• Functional safety experience ISO 26262 or other.

• Production embedded development involving timing, interrupts, peripherals, or driver-level code.

• Wiring harness design from schematic through build.

• Defense, motorsport, endurance racing, or other durability-critical vehicle experience.
  
  

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Pay & Benefits

Base salary: $165,000–$205,000 (North Carolina)

This is the base salary range we in good faith expect to pay for this role. Where you land depends on your skills and experience, which we assess through the interview process.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 20 days of vacation, plus all federal holidays
• Parental leave
• Professional development support: training, certifications, and conferences

Export control. This position requires access to technical data and items controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Applicants must be a "U.S. person" as defined in 22 C.F.R. § 120.62: a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or an individual granted asylum or refugee status.

Equal opportunity. Raglan is an equal opportunity employer. We make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other status protected by law. If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply or interview, contact careers@raglan.com.

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