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Senior Control Systems Engineer
Cellula Robotics
Software Engineering
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Posted on Oct 13, 2025
Cellula Robotics Ltd. (“Cellula”) is looking to add a Senior Control Systems Engineer to its Engineering team to support product development and project delivery.
Cellula is a world-leading marine technology company focused on changing the paradigm of subsea survey, science and security through modular, long range, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems. Our company is growing and is transitioning from building mostly one-of-a-kind prototypes to completing the development of our four core products and delivering multiples of those products to our customers. Our products are configured for each client to deliver required capabilities for their use cases. We are committed to producing sustainable solutions for the defense, science, exploration, and energy sectors driven by innovation and industry knowledge. We’re looking for enthusiastic and energetic people to join us in this growth and transition.
At Cellula we believe in collaboration, innovation, adaptability and reliability. These values are woven through all our products and how we do business. Our products are designed to be solutions to the challenges and capability needs of our clients, which often requires developing new capabilities and subsystems unique to a particular application. These systems are designed, built, and tested in-house by a skilled team of engineers, technicians, and support staff. People are at the heart of our business, and we pride ourselves on having a collaborative team-based workplace and building partnerships to solve the most difficult challenges in ocean technology. We believe in learning and innovating by doing. We send staff along with our products into the field to learn from our clients, which informs our innovation.
As a Senior Control Systems Engineer, you’ll leave your mark across Cellula’s products and leverage your experience to improve and shape how we do control system engineering. As a Senior Control Systems Engineer, you’ll take ownership for a product or system’s design, how it works, is built, tested, and supported. You’ll foster a positive team culture while providing leadership, mentorship, and oversight to junior engineers in their design efforts. You’ll also be responsible for creating, reviewing & approving control system engineering content, and championing organizational improvements where you see a need. We expect our senior engineers to become the “go to” experts in their areas of experience and become subject matter experts in AUVs and other subsea technologies. The ideal candidate has experience in subsea technology such as AUVs, acoustics, ROVs, or similar systems, or has experience in adjacent industries like robotics or other low volume high mix engineering where systems have undergone the transition from prototype to product.
As a company, we offer team members a chance to grow professionally. Our office is a casual, collaborative environment where you will be able to learn about our state-of-the-art systems from technical experts. We’re excited for you to contribute your experience and make a positive impact on how we grow. In addition, we offer flexible work hours, benefits, and competitive compensation. This position is primarily an on-site position with some limited flexibility for remote work.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Define vehicle behaviors, performance requirements, and user interfaces needed to support system-specific CONOPS. Derive robot, actuator, sensor, and computing platform requirements.
- Design and implement control algorithms and strategies for autonomy, including mission definition & execution, dynamic positioning, flight control, maneuvering, obstacle avoidance, and high-level behaviours.
- Design and implement sensor processing methodologies to provide situational feedback for autonomous behaviors.
- Define real-time communication content and protocol requirements in challenging throughput environments.
- Define feed-forward and observer/estimator requirements to optimize feedback control system performance.
- Analyze system performance, robustness, and response using mathematical modelling and simulation.
- Conduct control system testing, including simulation-based, hardware in the loop, and field testing.
- Monitor and tune system performance and optimize control strategies based on mission behavior requirements.
- Assist in overall vehicle system assembly, integration, troubleshooting, and testing.
- Identify applicable codes and standards and ensure Cellula products are compliant.
- Provide technical support through all phases of a project, including control system tuning, optimization, troubleshooting, and assist with mission planning & execution.
- Create documentation and training material and provide training to Cellula team members and clients.
- Train and mentor junior engineers and EITs.
- Review and approve work done by junior team members.
Required Skills & Experience
- Degree in related field of engineering, e.g. Engineering Physics.
- Registered P. Eng.
- Minimum 7 years working experience in a relevant or related field.
- Working experience developing 3D vehicle motion control systems in autonomous or tele-robotic applications.
- Experience with Simulink in a robotics control application.
- Experience implementing and tuning closed loop control systems.
- Experience leading teams of four or more highly competent people.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Technical documentation: specifications, requirements, design documents, test plans/reports, operator manuals etc.
- Ability to manage multiple complex technical projects simultaneously.
- Proven ability to create design schedules and lead teams to meet deadlines.
- Analytical, thorough, resourceful, and detail oriented.
- Team and customer service focused.
- Self-motivated, hardworking, flexible.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience in the subsea industry.
- Experience with unmanned underwater vehicle system design.
- Experience operating and piloting unmanned underwater vehicles.
- Experience working with subsea sensors such as sonar, cameras, lidar, etc.
- Design of observers and estimators
- System identification
- Image processing experience
- Machine learning experience
- Robotic systems design experience.
- Experience with ROS1 and ROS2.
- ISO9001 quality control.
Please include a cover letter as part of your application.
Reports to: Software Engineering Manager
Position type: Full time
Location: Burnaby, British Columbia