Michael Zahradnik

Lead Controls and Electrical Engineer

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About

• Senior Controls and Electronics Engineer with 10 years of experience developing hybrid-electric and conventional powertrain control systems in the automotive industry focusing on control algorithms and embedded software for safety critical applications. • Hands on experience from specifying requirements, designing control architecture, writing software, testing components and subsystems to building and wiring prototype vehicles, often in fast paced environments. • Designed numerous electronic control modules involving microcontroller selection, PCB design and routing, low level and application level code for real time software. • Contributed on many cross-functional and global teams to develop and validate protype and production level control code in C/C++ and MATLAB/Simulink. • High familiarity with interfacing hardware and software of control systems to sensors and actuators. • Strong background in troubleshooting electronic and mechanical systems both in the lab and the field. • Written and won numerous engineering proposals and quotes for projects including, but not limited to, SOWs, RASICs, hours estimations, and Gantt charts. • Experience leading small teams of people to complete technical projects.

Experience

  • Lead Engineer - Controls, Electrical, System Architecture at Flux Marine Ltd.
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Embedded Firmware Engineer at Hefring Engineering
    Dec 2022 - Feb 2023 · 3 mos

  • Controls Supervisor at XL Fleet
    Mar 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • AVL (9 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Project Engineer - Controls
      Jul 2016 - Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Embedded controls projects for hybrid-electric and conventional powertrains.

    • Project Engineer II - Controls
      Oct 2014 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Project Engineer I - Controls
      Jul 2011 - Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos