Controls Software Engineer

Controls Software Engineer

The Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is seeking a Controls Software Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will develop, deploy, test, document, and maintain control system software and tools that support accelerator and beamline operations at the Advanced Light Source (ALS). Working in a collaborative engineering and scientific environment, you will contribute to EPICS-based control applications, graphical user interfaces, data acquisition and logging tools, and software integrations with instruments and control hardware.

The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facility that produces exceptionally bright soft and hard x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light. With a strong scientific reputation, expert staff, and advanced capabilities, the ALS attracts thousands of academic and industrial users each year in condensed matter and quantum materials, energy sciences, biosciences, earth and planetary sciences and more.

The ALS is one of five Berkeley Lab user facilities that serve 15,000 users annually. Co-located with the Molecular Foundry, NERSC supercomputing center, and Berkeley Lab's materials, chemical sciences, biosciences, and other divisions, it provides an ideal collaborative environment for innovative scientific discoveries. The ALS is a global leader in soft x-ray science, and aims to maintain its leadership with ALS-U, a major project to upgrade the facility to a fourth-generation light source.

This upgrade will position the facility among the brightest soft x-ray light sources in the world, offering capabilities that no other facility can provide.

We're here for the same mission, to bring science solutions to the world. Join our team and YOU will play a supporting role in our goal to address global challenges! Have a high level of impact and work for an organization associated with 17 Nobel Prizes!

You will:

• Develop, modify, test, deploy, and maintain EPICS-based control system software, services, and associated tools for accelerator and beamline operations.
• Develop and maintain graphical user interfaces, data acquisition and logging applications, monitoring tools, and related operator-facing software using standard ALS and EPICS tools.
• Support the integration of control software with instruments, sensors, control hardware, and operational infrastructure in collaboration with engineers, scientists, operators, and other technical partners.
• Participate in software and system commissioning, validation, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Analyze moderate-scope issues, review relevant technical factors, select appropriate actions within established practices, and escalate issues when needed.
• Create and execute appropriate software tests; participate in peer code reviews; and use established source control, issue management, release, documentation, and testing practices.
• Prepare and maintain clear technical documentation describing software designs, interfaces, configurations, test results, operating procedures, and completed work.
• Produce initial technical reports or analyses for review by more experienced team members.
• Build productive working relationships and collaborate with internal and external partners to resolve shared technical and operational problems.
• Communicate status, risks, technical findings, and support needs clearly and promptly.
• Complete required Laboratory safety training and consistently apply applicable environment, health, safety, and security requirements in daily work.
• Provide occasional scheduled or emergency off-hours support, consistent with Laboratory practices, to help sustain reliable operation of the ALS as a 24/7 user facility.

In addition to the above, the Level 2 will:

• Design EPICS-based control system software, services, and associated tools for accelerator and beamline operations.
• Plan and carry out the integration of control software with instruments, sensors, control hardware, and operational infrastructure in collaboration with engineers, scientists, operators, and other technical partners.
• Perform software and system commissioning, validation, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Analyze moderate-scope issues, review relevant technical factors, select appropriate actions within established practices, and escalate issues when needed.
• Enhance relationships with senior internal and external partners to resolve shared technical and operational problems.
• Adapt communication to the audience and clearly convey status, risks, recommendations, and findings, using persuasion when needed.

We are looking for:

• Level 1:
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, another engineering discipline, the physical sciences, or a related field, and a minimum of two years of related professional experience; or an advanced degree in a related field without required experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Developing…