Idaho National Laboratory is hiring an Electrical Engineer to work in our Controls department. Our team works a 9x80 schedule located out of our REC facility with every other Friday off. You will report to the senior manager of Controls. We are looking for a senior electrical engineer with microelectronic experience in FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) integrated circuits, embedded control systems, and experience with embedded software development in C, FPGA design in Verilog/VHDL, Python script development, digital hardware and printed circuit board design. You will apply electrical engineering theories and principles to explore research opportunities associated with cybersecurity of critical infrastructure sectors including the electrical energy grid, distribution of oil/natural gas, and water/wastewater sectors. You will collaborate with diverse professionals (Cyber Security Research Engineers and Analysts) to ensure the development of integrated systems to allow safe, reliable delivery of services to the end-user. Responsibilities Include: - Knowledgeable of microelectronic circuit topologies including microprocessors and FPGAs, modeling and simulation of complex systems, advanced controls, and analysis involving interaction of multiple physical systems. - Collaborate with customers in developing system alternatives and analyze alternatives to ensure program requirements are met, including evaluating risks, costs, and other performance measures. - Provide technical reviews of design output (design change packages, installation procedures, and testing procedures) and obtain appropriate approvals for design output. Ensure design modifications meet technical baseline requirements. - Establish and maintain configuration management of assigned system(s) while maintaining existing drawings and databases. - Develop functional and operation requirements, system design descriptions, and test procedures for equipment. - Collaborate with other engineers, planners, operations personnel, and other partners to ensure the proper execution of testing activities. Provide first order data analysis and report test status to appropriate partners. - Contribute to the functionality of test equipment and support procurement activities in acquiring equipment, spare parts, or other systems for research systems. - Evaluate and assess system/equipment performance and history to improve efficiency and reliability. - Create design of experiments including data acquisition, data collection in laboratory, and appropriate data reduction as dictated by project needs. - Analyze experimental results. - Mentor junior engineers and other technical personnel in appropriate test procedures, maintenance, and laboratory activities. - Oversee the design and maintenance of assigned high-risk control systems operations. - Direct others or work directly with equipment vendors to diagnose and repair malfunctions and design and specify new equipment to meet customer requirements. - Emphasis is on electronics capabilities, especially hardware design, embedded software development, and FPGAs. - Other assigned task
