Director - Control, Instrumentation, and Diagnostics (CID) Systems

Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary organization spanning control systems, instrumentation, diagnostics acquisition, embedded software, and real time integration, including hiring, performance management, career development, and team structure.

Establish engineering operating rhythm: planning, prioritization, technical reviews, staffing plans, and decision-making processes.

Set technical direction and ensure consistent engineering quality across requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, and documentation.

Own the Eos CID architecture, including functional, physical, communications, timing, and data flow boundaries across fast DAQ, supervisory control, PLC automation, safety interlocks, and diagnostics acquisition.

Lead technology selection for real time control, SCADA, networking, timing, and data management, and ensure consistency across integration protocols and data interfaces.

Own the technical interface to external vendors and collaborators providing controls hardware, diagnostics hardware, and instrumentation deliverables, including technical specifications, design reviews, and acceptance participation.

Oversee development and integration of the Eos control system across major subsystems, ensuring deterministic behavior, fault handling, and operational sequencing.

Own Safety and Interlock System philosophy, including safety class logic where required, participation in hazard analyses, and alignment to functional safety practices and standards.

Own instrumentation architecture across the facility: sensor selection, signal types, isolation strategy, signal conditioning, grounding, shielding, and segregation practices for noisy, high power environments.

Oversee diagnostic acquisition architecture end to end, from front end sensors and conditioning through digitizers, FPGA processing, data streaming, and archiving in support of plasma operations and feedback control.

Partner with systems engineering to translate device requirements into CID requirements, interface definitions, and verification plans.

Run evidence based technical gates and design reviews, with clear entry and exit criteria and configuration control.

Own delivery artifacts such as requirements, interface control documents, design packages, test plans, and acceptance evidence to support procurement, installation, and commissioning.

Maintain a strong safety culture including machine protection thinking, hazard analysis inputs, and design choices that support safe installation and operations.

Provide hands on leadership in lab and field environments, coordinating with technicians and test teams for build, wiring, installation support, and debug.