R&D Manager - Controls Systems

What You Will Be Doing:

You will manage the control systems team in the R&D department. This team is responsible for delivering and maintaining control and data acquisition systems. These systems are used to control HV electrical test bays, control plasma technology development machines, control Production Manufacturing end-of-line testing, and control FRC plasma machines of varying sizes.

This team will be one of the primary contributors to the control system of our first power plant, Orion, and managing the development collaboration with the Engineering department will be a primary focus. You will report to the R&D Manager, onsite located at our Everett, WA office.

You Will:

• Effectively lead controls engineers in the timely and successful delivery of a variety of control and data acquisition systems used across the organization
• Develop and maintain effective, and productive cross-team collaborations, specifically those related to the buildout of the Orion machine
• Proactively identify and mitigate future technical, and personnel blockers
• Foster individual contributor career growth through effective leadership
• Recruit and grow the team as needed to succeed in its mission
• Effectively advocate for the team to other managers and up the leadership chain
• Work with the team to develop, define, implement, and maintain code development and documentation practices that support future growth

Required Skills:

• Minimum 2+ years managing controls engineers in a scaling environment
• Experience developing control systems for large-scale, complex systems
• Demonstrated technical proficiency with LabVIEW and NI hardware in control system applications, including PXI, cRIO, RT, and FPGA
• Experience incorporating PLCs into LabVIEW and NI based control systems
• Experience incorporating text-based code (e.g. C, Matlab) into LabVIEW and NI based control systems