Electrical Engineer, Analog/RF, Beam Instrumentation

Why Work at BNL?
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Organizational Overview

The mission of the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) is to operate, maintain, improve, and upgrade the suite of electron, proton, and heavy ion accelerators used to carry out a program of accelerator-based experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). To support this program, the C-AD must design, fabricate, assemble, test, install, and operate unique research equipment to generate, transport, transfer, accelerate, focus, track, collide, and absorb high intensity particle beams up to energies of 250 GeV. This includes a combination of custom designed and fabricated devices and vendor produced components developed by a collaboration of the C-AD scientific, engineering, and technical staff. The C-AD supports an international user community of over 1,500 scientists. The C-AD performs all these functions in an environmentally-responsible and safe manner, under a rigorous conduct of operations approach.

Position Description

If you are energetic and interested in an exciting career developing cutting edge beam instrumentation systems in support of the existing collider-accelerator facility and the future electron-ion collider (EIC) to be constructed at Brookhaven over the next ten years, then this is the job for you. The Collider Accelerator Department has an opening for an Electrical Engineer in the Instrumentation Group to design, develop, integrate, commission and support the operation of complex beam instrumentation systems.

In this position the candidate will contribute to the development of complete system solutions to satisfy the physics and operational needs of these complicated machines. Developments may include analog and digital electronic designs, schematic and PCB layouts, feedback control systems, ADCs (Analog-Digital Converter), DACs (Digital-Analog Converter), simulations, RF front end designs, analog and digital filters, gate arrays, VHDL coding, software development and documentation. The candidate will collaborate with multidisciplinary personnel, including accelerator physicists, operators, technicians and other engineers. This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.

If you possess solid electronic engineering skills and you have a thirst for solving difficult engineering problems, we would be happy to train you in the exciting field of accelerators.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or closely related field
• Minimum of seven years full time relevant experience
• Knowledge of analog and digital electronic circuits and troubleshooting experience to the component level
• Experience with electronic test equipment, function generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and multi-meters
• Experience with analog design simulation tools
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication and good interpersonal skills are required to interact with a diverse group of scientists and technical staff
• Ability to support a team with diverse skills and talents during all phases of design, construction, testing, repair and upgrade of existing equipment and operations support

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• MS degree in electrical engineering
• Prior experience with particle beam current and charge monitoring, transverse profile and position measurement and tune meter systems
• Experience with RF and analog circuit design, amplifiers, gated integrators, digitizers and digital signal processing
• Experience with MATLAB, LabVIEW
• Experience with computer programming languages such as C/C++, Perl, Python
• Knowledge of FPGAs and VHDL
• Knowledge of Linux operating system and Microsoft Office applications

Environmental, Health, and Safety Considerations:

• Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs
• Must be able to work at heights of up to five (5) feet

Other:

• Must have valid driver's license

At Brookhaven National Laboratory we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:

• Medical Plans
• Dental Plans
• Vacation
• Holidays
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Plan
• Retirement Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Swimming Pool, Weight Room, Tennis Courts, and many other employee perks and benefits