Updated July 28, 2026

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Control Systems Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ control systems jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and 9-day fortnights—full pay and a better work-life balance. 8 new this week. Hiring companies include CHAOS Industries, Arbor Energy, and Marathon Petroleum.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Process Controls Engineer

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteSan Antonio, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Nuclear Reactor Controller

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Operations Engineer Process Control Systems (PCS) / Electrical Engineering / EMSR

Sanofi

HybridFrankfurt am Main, Germany

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridEl Segundo, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Embedded Software Engineer (Avionics)

General Atomics

HybridPoway, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Electromechanical Controls Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridEl Segundo, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

HIL Engineer

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Electronics Laboratory Lead

Graphcore

HybridBristol, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Electronics Laboratory Lead

Graphcore

HybridTainan, Taiwan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Industrial Software Development Manager

2mo

Thales

HybridSingapore, Singapore

74 · Great4 day week80% pay

Board Operator

11d

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteNew Town, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Engineer

13d

Runway

OnsiteNew York, USA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Platform Systems Engineer; Motion Planning and Control

1mo

Waabi

OnsitePhoenix, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$148k – $292k

Principal Hardware-in-the-Loop Engineer

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Hardware-in-the-Loop Engineer

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer

1mo

Panthalassa

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Test Engineer (Gasification R&D)

2mo

Arbor Energy

OnsiteSan Bernardino, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

R&D Process Engineer

2mo

Arbor Energy

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Test Engineer (High-Pressure Gas Systems)

2mo

Arbor Energy

OnsiteSan Bernardino, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Control Systems Engineer

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Control Systems on this page include CHAOS Industries, Arbor Energy, and Marathon Petroleum. 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.