Senior Engineer, Instrumentation & Controls Test

Description

• Communicating with others to exchange information
• Promote a culture of safety, quality, and innovation, incorporating lessons learned into future system designs and test planning.
• Develops and applies innovative modeling and testing methods, leveraging Simulink and system-level insight to optimize test architecture.
• Applies cross-disciplinary knowledge to bridge electrical, controls, and mechanical systems in support of system-level performance and test fidelity.
• Mentor early career engineers and technicians, developing best practices for panel wiring, instrumentation setup, and data integrity.
• Makes strategic technical decisions and leads trade-off evaluations across cross-functional test, control, and instrumentation requirements.
• Specify and validate system components such as sensors, signal conditioners, data acquisition hardware, and control interfaces, ensuring alignment with test and system-level requirements.
• Oversee and support the installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting of I&C systems, collaborating with technicians, engineers, and cross-functional teams.
• Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others
• Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
• Requires occasional extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines
• Leads collaboration across departments, mentors junior team members, and aligns teams on test strategy and execution.
• Collaborate across departments to align test platforms with evolving design, safety, and control architecture requirements.
• Promotes structured knowledge sharing, documents modeling/test strategies, and codifies lessons learned to inform future system development.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges involving electromechanical systems, instrumentation reliability, and control stability.
• Accessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
• Develop and review electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and one-line drawings to guide system integration and troubleshooting.
• Provide technical leadership for multidisciplinary instrumentation efforts, bridging mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering.
• Solves complex, ambiguous technical problems involving multi-system interactions, control dynamics, and instrumentation constraints.
• Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
• Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 20 pounds in all directions
• Leads safety-first design reviews, proactively identifies system risks, and ensures instrumentation and controls comply with safety and operational standards.

Requirements

• Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes
• Proficiency with electrical schematic creation and control panel design.
• Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues
• Ability to work with highly collaborative team
• Proven track record delivering I&C solutions in complex test, R&D, or high-reliability industries (e.g., nuclear, aerospace, automotive).
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and lead without close supervision.
• Some travel may be required, up to 10%
• Electrical Engineering (EE) Professional Engineering license is a plus but not required
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical collaboration across teams.
• Expert understanding of sensor technologies, signal conditioning, and system integration for transient, real-time, and safety-critical environments.
• Ability to problem solve quickly and efficiently
• Strong troubleshooting skills for electromechanical and automation systems.
• Familiarity with SolidWorks Electrical or CAD tools is a plus.
• Experience using Simulink, MATLAB, or similar tools for control modeling and test planning is a plus.
• Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
• PE license in CA (Electrical) is a plus.
• Experience using Simulink, MATLAB, or similar tools for control modeling and test planning is a plus
• Ability to develop and apply modeling and testing methods, leveraging tools like Simulink to optimize test architecture is preferred.
• High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for I&C scope on major test campaigns, ensuring system readiness and test execution quality.
• Extensive experience in controls system design, sensor integration, DAQ systems, and industrial instrumentation.
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline with 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, or MS with 8+ years.
• Experience with LabVIEW

Benefits

• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Requires occasional working weekends
• Competitive compensation packages

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance