Control & Automation Engineer (Instrumentation and PAT)

System One; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Job summary

System One is hiring a Control & Automation Engineer (Instrumentation and PAT) for an onsite Boston, MA contract-to-hire role. You will design, build, and commission machine control systems, guiding the controls lifecycle from requirements through acceptance testing in a biotech setting.

The position emphasizes real-time control, safety architecture, sensor selection, and hardware integration, with a 401(k) and comprehensive health benefits upon permanent placement.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in electrical/controls/mechatronics/automation engineering.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate process instrumentation and boundary between process feedback control and quality profiling.
• Build, wire and configure control system; perform hardware-in-the-loop testing; verify state machines, interlocks, alarms and fault recovery.
• Conduct commissioning on the integrated machine, including fault-injection campaigns to characterize detection, isolation and recovery.

Job description

Job Title: Control & Automation Engineer (Instrumentation and PAT)
Location: Boston, MA
Type: Contract to Hire
Compensation:$72.12
Work Model: Onsite – onsite
Hours: Standard business hours
Security Clearance: Not specified

Overview:

Join a growing U.S. biotechnology organization specializing in RNA medicine manufacturing. You'll design, build, and commission machine control systems, managing the controls lifecycle from requirements to acceptance testing. Your focus will include subsystem management, requirements definition, verification, risk management, and integration for complex electromechanical automation and biotech equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate process analytical technology instrumentation — UV-Vis, pH, conductivity, temperature, fluorescence, in-line Raman and dynamic light scattering — and the boundary between process feedback control and quality profiling.
• Build, wiring and configuration of the control system; hardware-in-the-loop bench testing; verification of the state machine, interlocks, alarms and fault recovery.
• Conduct commissioning on the integrated machine, including fault-injection campaigns that characterize detection, isolation and recovery behavior.

Requirements

• BS or MS in electrical, control, mechatronic, chemical or automation engineering.
• Eight or more years designing and commissioning control systems for automated laboratory, process or production equipment, with commissioned machines behind you.
• Experience with real-time control, PID and advanced loops, state machines, interlock and safety architecture, sensor selection and calibration, and electrical panel and harness design.
• Fluency with an industrial or embedded control stack and with motion control.
• Instrumentation judgment: sensors that survive the process fluid, sterilization route and duty cycle.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.