Diagnostics & Controls Lead

What you would own

• Select and integrate current, voltage, magnetic, optical, vacuum, position, and machine-state measurements appropriate to each test stage.
• Create shot records that preserve configuration, calibration, timing, raw data, analysis provenance, and acceptance outcomes.
• Investigate anomalous signals and prove whether they originate in the machine, sensor, transmission path, acquisition chain, or analysis.

What we are looking for

• Experience designing or commissioning diagnostics, controls, or data-acquisition systems for timing-critical physical hardware.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, grounding, isolation, synchronization, calibration, and uncertainty.
• Ability to write reliable controls and data software while remaining hands-on with instruments, cabling, sensors, and test hardware.
• Evidence of turning ambiguous measurements into defensible engineering decisions.
• Clear judgment about the minimum system required for safe, informative experiments.
• Experience with plasma, pulsed-power, accelerator, fusion, high-field magnet, or similarly high-EMI experiments.
• Familiarity with FPGA or real-time timing, fast digitizers, fiber isolation, and high-bandwidth probes.
• Experience establishing shot-data schemas, automated quality checks, or experiment-control software from scratch.