Lead Process Controls & Sensing DAQ Engineer

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life_ins

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is seeking a senior engineer to lead the Applied Physical Systems team, designing acquisition hardware and software, instrumenting factory floor equipment, and turning data into actionable insights for process improvement.

You will split time between hardware design, software development, and on-site instrumentation, collaborating with process, data, and controls engineers to enable scalable, production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering, physics, or a related field.
• Strong electrical fundamentals, including grounding, shielding and noise in measurement systems.
• Software engineering in Python and C or C++, including version control and testing.
• Control fundamentals, with experience in feedback control of a physical process.
• Experience selecting, placing and calibrating sensors across force, vibration, acoustic, optical, thermal and electrical measurements.
• Experience with digital signal processing, including filtering, spectral analysis and feature extraction.
• Experience designing multi-channel DAQ systems, including sampling, triggering and time synchronization.
• Experience writing embedded or real-time software on microcontrollers, FPGAs or real-time controllers.
• Comfort working on the factory floor with operators and process engineers to learn what needs measuring.
• Daily use of AI tools for analysis, firmware and documentation, with experience reviewing and verifying outputs for quality and completeness.

Responsibilities

• Design vendor-agnostic data acquisition (DAQ) systems, covering sensors, signal conditioning, time base, edge compute, storage and APIs.
• Instrument manufacturing equipment and processes, and reuse the same platform across machines.
• Specify sensors, placement and front-end electronics against noise and bandwidth budgets.
• Synchronize process signals with robot and machine position and state.
• Build signal-processing pipelines that turn raw data into features and process state.
• Work with process engineering teams to turn failure modes into measurement requirements.
• Decide when COTS hardware is enough, and design or contract custom electronics when it is not.
• Develop monitoring and closed-loop control of physical processes.

Skills

Electrical fundamentals

Python

C/C++

Control fundamentals

Sensor selection

Digital signal processing

Multi-channel DAQ systems

Embedded/real-time software

Factory floor collaboration

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, physics or related field

Tools

KiCad

Altium

Job description

Hadrian is seeking a senior engineer to lead the Applied Physical Systems team, designing acquisition hardware and software, instrumenting factory floor equipment, and turning data into actionable insights for process improvement.

You will split time between hardware design, software development, and on-site instrumentation, collaborating with process, data, and controls engineers to enable scalable, production-ready systems.