Principal Robotics Engineer

NWC ARC BEST TECHNOLOGY   Fort Smith, AR   Full-time     Engineering
Posted on March 24, 2025
Principal Robotics Engineer – Controls ArcBest Technologies, Inc. seeks multiple Principal Robotics Engineer – Controls to work @ Fort Smith, AR metro, including 8100 Zero Street, Fort Smith, AR 72916. Duties: Provide strategic leadership in the development of planning & controls systems, ensuring alignment w/ organizational goals & industry standards. Develop & execute long-term roadmaps for advancing systems capabilities, ensuring alignment w/ product roadmap and customer requirements. Lead the design & implementation of classical or modern control approaches & architectures for our autonomous mobile robots incl: filtering/estimation, optimization/model predictive control &simulation. Lead the project from prototyping phase to finished product, ensuring rigorous testing (both SiL and HiL) and validation of design proposals. Lead and oversee comprehensive documentation for all software designs, guaranteeing precision in block diagrams, schematics required for junior engineers to execute on, etc. REQ: Master's deg in Robotics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or closely related field. Min 24 mths exp in Robotics Engineer, Robotics Controls Engineer, Robotics Software Engineer, or closely related position. Knowledge of designing and developing autonomous vehicles. (ALT REQ: Bachelor’s deg in Robotics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or closely related field. Min 60 mths exp in Robotics Engineer, Robotics Controls Engineer, Robotics Software Engineer, or closely related position. Knowledge of designing and developing autonomous vehicles.) To apply, email resume and cover letter to: ArcBest Technologies, ATTN: Andrew Hudgens (ref. Job ABT #0325). EOE.