Controls & Data Systems Engineer, Instrumentation & DAQ

6AM City, LLC; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s LCLS seeks a Controls and Data Systems Integration Engineer to design, implement, and sustain advanced hardware and software solutions for scientific instrumentation across experimental halls.

You will own the instrument’s controls and data systems architecture, provide technical leadership, and coordinate with scientists and operations to enable high-rate, reproducible measurements in a world-leading XFEL program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, computer science, engineering or related field with 3+ years in scientific instrumentation or control systems.
• Experience designing, integrating, and sustaining distributed control/data-acquisition systems.
• Ability to learn broad hardware/software systems quickly and apply disciplined engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, and validate experimental system installations including requirements, commissioning plans and acceptance testing.
• Design and maintain controls architectures across PLCs, fieldbus I/O, embedded controllers, timing systems, and Linux IOCs.
• Develop EPICS-based control/DAQ software, device support, alarms, archiver, and operator interfaces.

Skills

EPICS-based control software

Systems engineering

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics, computer science, or engineering

Tools

Linux-based IOCs

PLC systems

EPICS toolkit

Job description

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s LCLS seeks a Controls and Data Systems Integration Engineer to design, implement, and sustain advanced hardware and software solutions for scientific instrumentation across experimental halls.

You will own the instrument’s controls and data systems architecture, provide technical leadership, and coordinate with scientists and operations to enable high-rate, reproducible measurements in a world-leading XFEL program.