Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

The Instrumentation and Controls Engineer is responsible for developing, analyzing, and integrating measurement and control systems to support reactor operation and power generation.

Responsibilities

• Develop sensors, instrumentation, and actuators based on multiple constraints.
• Develop control strategies and algorithms for industrial equipment.
• Integrate instrumentation and control components into systems and processes.
• Support our engineering team in integrating and coupling engineering analyses.
• Provide technical feedback to quick-iterating design teams.
• Document work using modern tools and techniques, and write well-written, thoughtful technical reports.

Requirements

• Experience with measurement techniques, signal conditioning, data acquisition, and logic diagrams.
• Experience identifying and specifying components based on requirements.
• Experience with digital networks and communication protocols.
• Experience integrating instrumentation and control components into industrial systems or processes.
• Experience implementing feedback control and automation with industrial equipment and processes.
• Experience with communicating with vendors and manufacturers.
• Experience with analog and digital circuits.
• Experience with Python

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Git version control.
• Familiarity with thermal energy conversion systems and components.
• Familiarity with electricity transmission and power electronics.

Competencies

• Passionate about clean energy.
• Passionate about making advanced fission a reality.
• Willing and able to learn quickly.
• Eager to work on a dynamic team, receive constructive feedback, and grow with us.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment.
• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving, while not leaning only on what has been done before.
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally.

Who You Are

• A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.
• Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of the mission.