Electrical Engineer (Instrumentation, Data Acquisition, and Controls)
About The Position
Spinor Energy's mission is to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy with breakthrough technology. We’re building Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES), a battery that stores electricity in the magnetic field of a superconducting coil. This technology never degrades, discharges megawatts in milliseconds, and is the most efficient form of energy storage ever conceived. Our engineering spans four disciplines: fusion-grade superconducting tape, megawatt-scale high-voltage power electronics, cryogenics, and vacuum systems. At Spinor, you'll get your hands on all of them. Our founders came from SpaceX, bringing a first-principles engineering, rapid iteration, and design-for-scale mindset to energy storage. You will own consequential hardware architecture and first schematic through bring-up, validation, and field deployment. We are hiring an Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Controls Engineer to build the sensing and nervous system of operating superconducting magnets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, applied physics, another relevant discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of hands-on experience (including internships or co-ops) developing instrumentation, data-acquisition, embedded-control, or mixed-signal systems
Nice To Haves
- Built consequential measurement or control hardware end to end, taking a system through sensor selection, circuit design, firmware development, bring-up, calibration, validation, and operation in a real environment
- Strength in analog electronics, sensor interfaces, filtering, grounding, isolation, and analog-to-digital conversion
- Experience with STM32 microcontrollers, FPGAs, embedded C/C++, or real-time systems
- Experience measuring high-voltage, high-current, floating, low-noise, or fast-transient signals
- The ability to troubleshoot across sensors, electronics, firmware, software, and physical system behavior
- A record of turning incomplete requirements and ambiguous measurement problems into dependable hardware
- Relevant experience may include scientific instrumentation, battery management systems, superconducting magnets, cryogenic systems, power electronics, industrial controls, test equipment, fusion systems, accelerators, aerospace hardware, or other complex electromechanical systems
Responsibilities
- Define how we measure the electromagnetic, mechanical, and thermal state of the system across cryogenic, high-magnetic-field, high-voltage, and vacuum environments
- Select sensors and design the signal conditioning, filtering, calibration, digitization, and isolation required to produce accurate, reliable measurements
- Develop synchronized embedded data-acquisition and control systems using microcontrollers, FPGAs, and software
- Turn measurements into real-time state detection, fault protection, interlocks, and equipment commands
- Lead system bring-up, debugging, calibration, and end-to-end validation from physical signal through control response
- Integrate across magnet, power-electronics, cryogenic, vacuum, mechanical, firmware, and controls engineering
- Take ambiguous multi-physics measurement challenges from first principles to dependable operation in the field
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
