Lead Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer

About the role:

We are seeking a Lead Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer to lead a team of stellar Engineers and roll up your sleeves to help design, build, test and maintain fusion physics experiments and components. We are operating three reactors and continuing to build and operate new experiments from ion sources to high voltage labs. An excellent candidate will be well-versed in electrical engineering fundamentals and theory and enjoy everything from ideation to circuit design, hardware assembling, testing and troubleshooting. This isn't a desk job- this is brainstorming, whiteboard designing, ECADing, elbows-deep in hardware, get-it-done fusion reactor building. You will leverage your expertise to run experiments, identify insights and bring the team along for the journey. This leadership role offers the opportunity to act as player-coach, lead and get your hands dirty with a passionate team on an ambitious mission to help push humanity forward.

In this role, you will:

• Mentor less experienced team members as they contribute to the fusion experiment systems.

• Coordinate Electrical and Instrumentation department activities and collaboration,

• Manage department standard operating procedures, guidelines and go-bys

• Lead department gap identification, training, and hiring

• Help projects determine electrical engineering requirement skills and experience, as well as leading resource allocation to projects

• Collaborate with physicists and engineers to conceive, develop, operate, and improve electronic hardware and software systems for fusion experiment control and data acquisition.

• In an environment of continuous iteration and development: specify, procure, design, and build hardware and software components for fusion experiment control and data acquisition such as electrical input/output hardware, graphical user interfaces, data plumbing, data storage, on-prem and cloud-based computer networking solutions.

• Design and build fusion experiment data processing pipelines including collation, synchronization, analysis, archiving, query, and visualization.

• Travel for conferences, meetings or company offsite events as required

About you:

• B.S. degree or higher in electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, computer engineering, or related field.

• 5+ years post-degree experience

• Sound knowledge of electrical fundamentals.

• Experience as Lead to or Manager of a strong team of Electrical Engineers.

• Experience with analog-to-digital and/or digital-to-analog conversion systems.

• Experience with one or more sensor electronics (i.e. transducer) applications.

• Experience with the Python programming language (or similar language), or with SQL and/or time series data systems.

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging integrated software/hardware electronic systems.

• Experience with a digital communication interface such as I2C, SPI, RS-232, GPIB, Modbus, etc.

• Experience finding and minimizing sources of measurement noise.

• Experience designing or implementing grounding systems.

Bonus skills or experience:

• Experience implementing, troubleshooting, and operating laboratory experiments.

• Experience with voltages larger than 5kV.

• Experience with bulk data storage and archival systems supporting day-to-day operations.

• Familiarity with sensors and instrumentation including e.g. faraday cups, temperature probes, Langmuir probes, digital video.

• Experience implementing low latency network communication systems.

• Experience implementing sub-microsecond time synchronization for control or data acquisition.

• Experience implementing systems to store and/or analyze high speed video.