About the Role
Stanley Black & Decker is seeking a Control Systems Expert to play a key role in the development of next-generation cordless power tools and outdoor products. This role sits within our Engineering organization and will contribute directly to the design, optimization, and protection of high-performance electromechanical products powered by our proprietary battery platforms, including 20V, 40V and 60V systems .
As our products become more powerful and complex, such as cordless concrete saws, grinders, drills, saws, and other high-load applications, the demand on the control system becomes increasingly critical. These tools must deliver high power, high torque, high speed, long runtime, and robust reliability under challenging real-world operating conditions.
The Control Systems Expert will be responsible for developing advanced control strategies that enable strong product performance while protecting key components such as motors, power electronics, batteries, and mechanical systems. This individual will help prevent issues such as unexpected current peaks, motor overheating, instability, poor transient response, and performance degradation across different applications and operating environments.
This is a highly impactful technical role for someone with deep expertise in control theory, control system design, motor control, embedded control, and system-level problem solving .
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, and optimization of control systems for cordless power tools and related electromechanical products.
Develop control strategies to achieve demanding performance targets, including high power output, high torque response, high rotational speed, long runtime, thermal robustness, and system protection.
Apply advanced control theory to design stable, efficient, and reliable control algorithms for motor-driven products.
Analyze product requirements and translate them into control system architecture, control logic, and performance specifications.
Develop models of motors, batteries, power electronics, mechanical loads, and overall system dynamics to support control design and validation.
Identify potential system-level failure modes early in development, such as current spikes, motor stall, overheating, overspeed, torque instability, voltage sag, or battery protection events.
Design control solutions to prevent component damage and ensure safe, reliable tool operation under extreme use cases.
Work closely with motor, electronics, firmware, battery, mechanical, simulation, testing, and product engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
Support the development of control algorithms for BLDC motors, power electronics, battery-powered systems, and high-load transient applications.
Conduct root cause analysis for performance issues and develop effective corrective actions.
Define and execute control system validation plans, including simulation, bench testing, prototype testing, and real-world application testing.
Tune control parameters to balance performance, efficiency, thermal limits, durability, and user experience.
Review and improve existing control architectures, algorithms, and development processes.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams on control system fundamentals and best practices.
Document control designs, assumptions, test results, failure analysis, and technical recommendations clearly and thoroughly.
Conducting cutting-edge research for control systems in power tools, and transforming successful control outcomes into reusable design standards and technical platforms.
Required Qualifications
Master’s degree or above in Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation, Robotics, Power Electronics , or a related engineering discipline. (PhD preferred)
Strong knowledge of control theory , including stability analysis, feedback control, dynamic systems, transient response, frequency-domain analysis, and controller…