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Senior Instrumentation and Controls Test Engineer

Aalo· Engineering
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Austin, TXFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Instrumentation and Controls Test Engineer responsible for developing measurement, control, and automation systems to support experimental hardware, software, and reactor development; owns I&C for testing from benchtop to automated test stands and collaborates with cross-functional teams to commission and support test equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Translate test objectives and operating conditions into measurement and control requirements, including sensor ranges, accuracy, response time, sampling, and data-recording needs.
  • Develop test methods and write test procedures that map engineering requirements to measurable acceptance criteria. Define prerequisites, equipment configurations, instrumentation and calibration needs and required data.
  • Develop and maintain testing procedures to support consistent execution and audit readiness
  • Select and integrate sensors, signal conditioning, embedded instrumentation, and data acquisition for temperature, pressure, flow, strain, vibration, position, voltage, current, and other required parameters.
  • Design and document instrument layouts, I/O assignments, wiring, and interfaces. Coordinate enclosures, installation, grounding, shielding, and instrument access with engineering and fabrication teams.
  • Develop PLC logic, HMIs, control sequences, and test automation. Configure and tune control loops for stable operation across test conditions, accounting for equipment dynamics.
  • Implement alarms, permissives, interlocks, and shutdown behavior defined through operating requirements and hazard reviews. Verify during commissioning and after changes.
  • Plan and execute commissioning and FAT/SAT of test-system hardware and software. Perform calibration, loop, I/O, and functional checks against requirements.
  • Use simulation, modeled inputs, or hardware-in-the-loop methods to verify control sequences and responses before operating integrated hardware; record results and resolve discrepancies.
  • Build data-acquisition and logging workflows with proper metadata for traceability of test results to operating conditions.
  • Troubleshoot sensors, wiring, signal noise, networks, communications, control behavior, and acquisition problems; diagnose root causes of unexpected results.
  • Support test execution and data interpretation; evaluate measurement uncertainty and recommend improvements.
  • Maintain requirements, schematics, I/O lists, software revisions, calibration records, and test results; manage interfaces with vendors and integrators.
  • Develop reusable instrumentation and automation approaches to improve test throughput and support later validation and production testing.

Qualifications

  • Degree in an engineering discipline (electrical, nuclear, control systems, or related).
  • At least five years of hands-on experience with instrumentation, controls, automation, or integrated test systems.
  • Practical experience selecting and integrating sensors, signal conditioning, and data acquisition for physical experiments or industrial equipment.
  • Experience developing and troubleshooting PLC-based or comparable industrial controls, including I/O, HMIs, control-loop behavior, and equipment dynamics.
  • Experience authoring and executing formal test protocols and technical reports with requirements traceability, revision control, deviation documentation, and evidence-based acceptance decisions.
  • Ability to interpret wiring diagrams and instrumentation documentation; hands-on with integrated hardware; troubleshoot industrial networks and communications.
  • Understanding of calibration, measurement accuracy, sampling, uncertainty, and how conditions and failure modes affect data; background in DOE, root-cause analysis, uncertainty analysis, or reliability testing.
  • Ability to turn incomplete test requirements into functioning, documented systems; diagnose hardware, software, and interface problems during commissioning and operation.
  • Ability to implement and verify controls and interlocks; work safely with electrical hardware and moving equipment.

Skills

Required:Instrumentation and data acquisitionPLC programming and HMIsTest protocol developmentCalibration and uncertainty analysisWiring diagrams and instrumentation documentation
Nice to have:Nuclear/high-reliability environmentsModel-based/system engineering

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on technical level
  • Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Corporate Gym Membership
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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