RF Controls Engineer

Pay range: $97,032 – $145,000 (offer determined by scope, qualifications, internal equity, and external market data).

About the Role

Join the Fermilab team as an RF Controls Engineer! In this role, you will research, design, develop, and test the real-time digital signal processing and control systems — including accelerator Low Level Radio Frequency (LLRF) systems — that keep Fermilab’s scientific experiments running.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop, and test real-time high-speed digital signal processing systems and control systems for scientific use.
• Perform computer-assisted engineering and use design software and development tools to model and simulate digital and analog circuits and systems.
• Coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and testing activities to ensure compliance with project specifications and requirements.
• Develop field-programmable gate array (“FPGA”) firmware using Quartus and Vivado tools.
• Design, implement, maintain, operate, and utilize electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for scientific experiment purposes.
• Develop System-On-Chip (“SOC”) FPGA software/firmware in a Linux environment.
• Program engineering calculations and scripting in Python and develop Microprocessor/DSP software.
• Conduct user interface development for Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (“EPICS”) and LabVIEW; design system controls for accelerator Low Level Radio Frequency (“LLRF”) systems.
• Use MATLAB, Simulink, and logic simulation tools for simulation, signal processing design, control system design, and firmware development.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or a foreign equivalent, and 2 years (24 months) of relevant experience in FPGA programming, including at least 1 (one) year of experience in:

• Python programming, Matlab and Simulink tools;
• Circuit analysis and design, logic design and simulation;
• Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, electronic components and instruments, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Schedule

Telecommuting is permissible from anywhere in the United States. Travel will include 1-2 international and/or domestic trips per year to coordinate with collaboration partners and participate in training classes, conferences, and workshops.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending accounts
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Onsite day care