Sr. Controls System Engineer at TAE Life Sciences

About The Role

The Sr. Control System Engineer will develop a cutting-edge Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) System for cancer treatment. The Sr. Control System Engineer will design, engineer, program and implement National Instruments (NI) systems associated with distributed control, real time control, automation, testing, and data acquisition systems.

• Work with multi-disciplinary team to develop and maintain BNCT control system. 
• Travel to installation site for system deployment, troubleshooting, and commissioning. 
• Develop software engineering tools to improve team’s workflow. 
• Develop test procedures to test various components of the system.  
• Work with team members to document changes in product lifecycle management system.

About You

• At least 4 years of experience with embedded control system design.
• At least 4 years of experience with advanced LabVIEW programming in a scientific, industrial or research environment with an emphasis on hardware control.
• Design, develop, and document distributed control and acquisition projects from concept to completion using National Instruments software and hardware, including: PXI, RIO, and FPGA architectures.
• Embedded system development for real-time sub-millisecond fail-safe fault detection and data logging.
• Develop modular, readable, and reusable LabVIEW code ensuring reliability, longevity and emphasizing continual improvement.
• Develop engineering tools, including desktop and web-based testing applications.
• Develop time critical LabVIEW FPGA code.
• Develop test procedures for various components of the system.
• Technical Experience required (Equipment, Tools, etc.):
  • Embedded system design: microcontroller/microprocessor, FPGA, IC electronics
  • National Instruments hardware, PXI, PXIe, cRIO using both Windows and RT Linux
  • National Instruments distributed IO (eRIO etc.)
  • Experience developing real-time/non real-time test applications in LabVIEW
  • Familiarity and use of standard test equipment and acquisition to verify correct operation software and systems
  • Strong understanding of high voltage and electrical principles
  • Electronics and hardware troubleshooting experience
• Software Knowledge and Skills Required:
  • LabVIEW programming with an emphasis on embedded system, FPGA and their integration with hardware
  • Familiar with Database and SQL Query
  • Software Revision Control System
  • Issue tracking tool (JIRA) and Documentation (Confluence)
• Domestic and overseas travel required - 20%.
• Experience with integration of software and hardware in a high voltage environment is preferred.
• Experience with software programming of safety systems is preferred.
• Experience with testing of high-voltage, high-power systems is preferred.
• Experience with C/C++/C# is preferred.
• Hybrid work set up, few days a week in office.

Education

• Required: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related physics or engineering discipline
• Preferred: LabVIEW Certification (Certified LabVIEW Developer or higher, Certified LabVIEW Embedded Developer)