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Control Systems Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ control systems jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Helion, Samsara, and CERN.

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9-day fortnights 6
generous PTO 7
unlimited PTO 3
best places to work 4

Updated September 5, 2026

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Sales Engineer (Northeast)

3mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$96k – $145k

Associate Sales Engineer, SE Desk - Northeast

3mo

Samsara · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$77k – $104k

Enterprise Sales Engineer

3mo

Samsara · Remote · Toronto, ON, Canada

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$220k – $259k

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Controls and Automation Engineer

NEW

20h

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 5k – CHF 6kPro · early access

Automation Engineer BMS/EMS

NEW

Sanofi · Hybrid · Singapore, Singapore

59 · GoodGenerous PTOPro · early access

Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

L3Harris Technologies · Hybrid · Salt Lake City, UT, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

L3Harris Technologies · Hybrid · Salt Lake City, UT, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Summer 2027 GNC / Autonomy Intern

AV · Onsite · Simi Valley, CA +4 more

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Control Dynamics Engineer

11d

United Launch Alliance · Onsite · Centennial, CO, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$71k – $118k

Senior Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

1mo

Stanley Consultants · Hybrid · Denver, CO +4 more

65 · Good9 Day Fortnight$140k – $186k

Computational Physicist for Accelerators

23d

CERN · Hybrid · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 6k – CHF 7k

Software Engineer

29d

Emesent · Onsite · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

64 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Plant Control

18d

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$250k – $290k

Software Engineer, Plant Control

1mo

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$185k – $240k

LabVIEW Controls Engineer

1mo

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$164k – $200k

Electrical (EICA) Design Engineer

18d

Costain · Hybrid · Peterborough, England, UK

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

HIL Engineer

1mo

CHAOS Industries · Onsite · Los Angeles, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Hardware-in-the-Loop Engineer

2mo

CHAOS Industries · Onsite · Los Angeles, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Principal GNC Engineer

1mo

Venus Aerospace · Onsite · Houston, TX, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO

R&D Manager - LabVIEW Controls Systems

1mo

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$162k – $192k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Control Systems on this page include Helion, Samsara, and CERN. Control Systems roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Control Systems is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Control Systems roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Control Systems across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Control Systems hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Control Systems roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Control Systems candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Control Systems on current listings.