Controls Engineer

About the Role

Join the Fermilab team at the Computational Science and AI Directorate (CSAID) as a Controls Engineer! In this role, you will design and implement electronics systems, firmware, and software to read out sensor data and control experiments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement electronics systems, firmware, and software to read out sensor data and control experiments.
• Develop specifications and requirements for data-intensive experimental readout systems for scientific experiments, detectors, and accelerators at Fermilab and the DOE.
• Design and implement firmware for microcontrollers and FPGAs that manage timing, synchronization, and low-latency data acquisition on detector frontend modules, enabling real-time trigger decisions, error-correction handling, and closed-loop feedback control for precise regulation of detector operating parameters.
• Develop software to interface with firmware and hardware components for users to operate detector and accelerator components.
• Plan months-long projects for a readout system to deliver readout and control systems on time and budget.
• Document findings, report on, and present deliverables and milestones to project stakeholders.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of physicists, technicians, and engineers to support the scientific goals of experiments, detectors, and accelerators.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or the foreign equivalent, and 2 years of relevant experience in systems engineering, including at least 1 (one) year of experience in:

• using circuit design, synthesis, and validation tools to develop signal processing prototypes and products;
• designing firmware and software frameworks for engineering projects in scientific experiments; and
• developing firmware for programming electronic readout systems.

Telecommuting may be permissible from anywhere in the United States, subject to approval.