Control System Engineering Intern

Your Title: Control System Engineering Intern
Job Location: Westminster, CO
Our Department: Trimble Ag Industry Solutions (AgIS)
Internship Period: May thru Sept 2026
 
Does the development of navigation and control solutions excite you? Do you want to spend your summer being a part of revolutionising the agriculture industry?
What You Will Do
As a Control System Engineering Intern with Trimble Agriculture Industry Solutions (AgIS), you will be joining the core development team for these systems. GNC stands for guidance, navigation, and controls, and in this internship you will be developing/maintaining core algorithms for steering/automating agricultural vehicles (tractors, harvesters, combines, sprayers, etc...), using MATLAB/Simulink or C/C++ to model/develop/maintain the algorithms, analyzing and tweaking vehicle performance, and integrating functionality into releasable products.
This will see you doing some (or all) of the following:

• Design, development, and productisation of state estimation and/or control algorithms
• Working with Matlab/Simulink and model-based design (MBD)
• Utilising your experience with sensor fusion and filter design (e.g UKF, EKF) for odometry/pose estimation
• Development, characterisation, and validation of non-linear vehicle dynamics plant models and sensor models
• Deploying and profiling algorithm performance on real-time hardware/operating systems
• Perform on-machine control system testing at our test site. 

What Skills & Knowledge You Should Bring

• Currently pursing a Masters degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on Control Systems and Control Theory
• Experience in control systems and state estimation for dynamic physical systems, such as ground vehicles
• Understanding of non-linear vehicle dynamics and control theory
• Familiarity with sensor fusion techniques and filter design, such as Extended Kalman Filters and Unscented Kalman Filters for pose estimation
• Strong understanding of statistics
• Proficient with Matlab & Simulink and/or C/C++, Python
• Familiar with C/C++ programming languages and compilation process
• Data analysis and visualization

What Skills & Knowledge You Could Bring

• Practical estimation experience, specifically in the Agriculture industry, including on ground experience with Tractors, Combines, Harvesters, etc
• Proficiency in production-grade C/C++ software development
• HIL and SIL testing
• Simulink auto-code generation
• GNSS+IMU based navigation
• Autonomous/Semi-autonomous vehicle control
• Machine Learning concepts
• Experience with Systems Identification, SimMechanics, Simscape, and Robotics Toolboxes
• Experience with test, verification, validation, and productisation of algorithms
• Experience with requirements decomposition and management tools.
• Advanced degrees are highly desirable

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

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