Senior Fellow - Advanced Control Systems

Pratt & Whitney, a recognized leading producer of the world's most powerful jet engines, is looking for dedicated individuals to support our organization. If you would like to work in a dynamic environment and possess the motivation to incorporate new ideas into practice, this may be the opportunity you've been waiting for!

The Pratt & Whitney Fellows Program was established in 1995 to recognize and reward the company's technical experts. The Fellows title is a position of distinction. Fellows are individuals who have demonstrated exceptional knowledge, judgment, and competence in their technical discipline. Pratt & Whitney and industry peers recognize them as valuable contributors and experts in their fields. As mentors, teachers, and leaders, they are given the opportunity to directly affect the technical excellence of Pratt & Whitney's products, processes, and people.

The Fellows Program offers a leadership career path option to those individuals who want to remain and develop in a specialized technical discipline. The program recognizes the full range of key technical contributors in breadth and technical depth of expertise.

Fellows serve on industry committees and consortiums, participate in government and university research, and assume the lead in presenting technical papers, and participating in technical conferences. Fellows are stewards of technical problem identification and leaders of problem-solving strategies.

Job Description
The successful candidate will be working in a dynamic team environment responsible for the design, qualification, and certification of Engine System Control Software for gas turbine engines. The control software will be part of a system with a distributed architecture involving multiple electronic components. The candidate will also be involved in the analysis of the engine system operating requirements and the development of required control logic.

The candidate should have successfully demonstrated analytical skills and the application of control theory to solve complex control system problems. Hands-on experience in the use of optimal control theory and stability robustness for multivariable, multi-rate systems with latencies is required. The candidate must have in-depth applied knowledge in multivariable control design and stability analysis for complex, high gain, closed loop and coupled digital systems. The candidate must have demonstrated the ability to work at the implementation level to resolve problems. Working knowledge of frequency response for multivariable and discrete time systems is required. Control software experience is desirable. Previous aerospace and military project experience preferred.



Ph.D in ME/EE/AE with concentration on advanced control concepts.

15 or more years of practical experience in the areas indicated in the job description section.


Must be US citizen or green card holder.

Additional Skills Sought
Hands on problem solving of complex control systems.


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