Controls Recruitment · Greater San Diego
Specialist recruitment for control algorithms, modelling, real-time implementation, instrumentation and validation. Led by an engineer who understands the engineering behind the hire.
RunTime clarifies the engineering requirements, searches for relevant candidates, assesses their technical experience and delivers a focused shortlist for an individual role or defined search.
Discuss a specialist hireLance can work inside your hiring operation, collaborating with engineering managers and using your ATS and company email where agreed. This recruitment delivery model can support wider engineering hiring alongside controls roles.
Discuss an embedded recruiterHow the Embedded Recruiter service works →Controls recruitment specialisms
Product control engineering is not automatically PLC automation. These pages focus on dynamic systems, algorithms and real-time implementation while recognising that some briefs cross into industrial control.
Plant models, feedback, observers and control-law design.
Sampling, scheduling, numerical behaviour and target constraints.
Sensors, actuators, calibration and data acquisition.
Simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, commissioning and measured response.
For San Diego employers
We define the plant, performance targets, sensors and actuators, modelling expectations, control architecture, target hardware and validation environment.
Candidate discussions examine model assumptions, controller choice, stability and robustness, implementation constraints and evidence from simulated and physical systems.
RunTime searches and directly approaches engineers whose experience aligns with the brief, then presents a focused shortlist with evidence, gaps and practical details.
Founder-led technical recruitment
Before recruitment, Lance Harvie developed electronics and firmware for industrial equipment, gaming systems and telecommunications products. He later built decades of specialist recruitment experience.
That background informs the questions RunTime asks about ownership, engineering decisions and fault investigation. It does not replace the client’s detailed technical interview.
RunTime Recruitment has operated since 2019.
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San Diego engineering context
Relevant local themes: wireless systems, embedded systems, signal processing, edge computing.
UC San Diego’s Wireless Embedded Systems program combines electrical engineering, computer science, communications and embedded system design. Its wireless research also spans sensing, edge compute, networking and deployed prototypes.
Those intersecting fields are useful context for teams defining RF, DSP, firmware and embedded-platform roles in San Diego.
Sources: UC San Diego Wireless Embedded Systems and UC San Diego WCSNG.
For Controls engineers
Share your resume and the type of work you want to do. Include your preferred working arrangement, location or relocation constraints, and the parts of the development lifecycle you have personally owned.
Submit your resumeFrequently asked questions
They can where the brief requires industrial automation, but product control algorithms and PLC or SCADA engineering are not presented as the same discipline.
Yes. RunTime documents the employer’s actual working arrangement and presents it clearly. Onsite, hybrid and remote preferences are not treated as interchangeable.
Relocation can form part of the search where the employer is open to it. Interest, timing and practical constraints are confirmed with each candidate. No relocation or work-authorisation outcome is assumed.
It is designed for a wider or recurring hiring plan where recruitment continuity matters. It is a delivery model, not a reference to embedded software engineering, and its agreed scope can support controls and related engineering roles.
Discuss your hiring plan
Tell us what you’re building, who you need and when you need them. Choose Specialist Recruitment for a specific hire or Embedded Recruiter support for a wider hiring plan.
Prefer email? webform@runtimerec.com
