Process Controls Engineer, Sensing & DAQ

Los Angeles, CAfull time

On Site

$268k–$321k

H1B: no

Hadrian Automation Process Controls Engineer leads design and implementation of data acquisition and sensing systems for manufacturing equipment at Hadrian. The role involves sensor selection, signal processing, instrumentation, and collaboration with process and controls engineers.

Responsibilities

Applied Physical Systems is a small, cross-functional engineering team at Hadrian. We build technology that spans more than one manufacturing capability, needs hardware and software designed together, and can't be bought off the shelf. We take a solution from proof of concept through prototype to a first production-ready version, then hand it to the teams that run it at scale. Engineers on the team design, build and commission their own systems on the factory floor.
Design vendor-agnostic data acquisition (DAQ) systems, covering sensors, signal conditioning, time base, edge compute, storage and APIs
Instrument manufacturing equipment and processes, and reuse the same platform across machines
Specify sensors, placement and front-end electronics against noise and bandwidth budgets
Synchronize process signals with robot and machine position and state
Build signal-processing pipelines that turn raw data into features and process state
Work with process engineering teams to turn failure modes into measurement requirements
Decide when COTS hardware is enough, and design or contract custom electronics when it is not
Develop monitoring and closed-loop control of physical processes

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in electricalStrong electrical fundamentalsControl fundamentalsExperience selectingDaily use of AI tools for analysisWhat Will Set You Apart

Required

Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer or mechanical engineering, physics, or a related field
Strong electrical fundamentals, including grounding, shielding and noise in measurement systems
Software engineering in Python and C or C++, including version control and testing
Control fundamentals, with experience in feedback control of a physical process
Experience selecting, placing and calibrating sensors across force, vibration, acoustic, optical, thermal and electrical measurements
Experience with digital signal processing, including filtering, spectral analysis and feature extraction
Experience designing multi-channel DAQ systems, including sampling, triggering and time synchronization
Experience writing embedded or real-time software on microcontrollers, FPGAs or real-time controllers
Comfort working on the factory floor with operators and process engineers to learn what needs measuring
Daily use of AI tools for analysis, firmware and documentation, with experience reviewing and verifying outputs for quality and completeness
What Will Set You Apart
Training and validating data-driven process models, such as anomaly detection or defect classifiers