Talent Bridge: MFC Electrical Engineer – Instrumentation & Controls

Talent Bridge: MFC Electrical Engineer – Instrumentation & Controls

Location: Materials and Fuels Complex, Idaho National Laboratory

Schedule: 4 x 10's with every Friday off

Program Duration: 12 months, with a potential 1-year extension.

Idaho National Laboratory is seeking a recent Electrical Engineering graduate to join our Instrumentation and Controls team and help advance next-generation systems that power industries, support national security, and ensure America's technological leadership. As a Talent Bridge hire, you will work alongside multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers, applying your technical foundation in a world-class nuclear research environment while receiving structured mentorship and accelerated professional development.

This role is specifically designed for recent Electrical Engineering graduates with coursework or applied experience in instrumentation, controls, and embedded systems, who are ready to make an immediate impact and grow into a long-term engineering career at INL.

• Work with a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers on challenging work scope. Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify requirements and commercially available technologies that meet specific specifications. Collaborate and partner with other government agencies, academia, and private sector companies to achieve project objectives. Decompose project objectives into defined and controlled design requirements.
• Use design methodologies, technologies, and processes which are best practice for the technical discipline to develop and define a design, and to validate that the design meets defined requirements.
• Develop physics-based mathematical models of mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems to support and verify design.
• Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements to ensure technical features important to design functions are maintained.
• Oversee or otherwise ensure that fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement are done in accordance with the design.
• Ensure that analysis needs are recorded and clearly understood. Document the design (controlled and approved models, drawings, specifications, design descriptions) to establish conformance with design requirements and applicable codes and standards.
• Ensure that data and analysis generated by the instruments is of high quality and meets customer and user needs.
• Participate in professional development activities aimed at keeping pace with industry developments. Maintain familiarity with and technical understanding of codes and standards applicable to the discipline.
• Maintain knowledge of newly emerging technologies and applications to the nuclear industry.
• Identify applicable codes, standards, regulations, and procedures.
• Publish and communicate research accomplished on the instrument and instrument improvements to both external and internal audiences with the goal of enhancing the INL’s reputation and building a strong user base for the instrument.
• Generate ideas for new proposals and business development opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Possess a sharp mechanical aptitude and an instinct for troubleshooting and problem-solving.
• Use scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
• Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Understand a wide variety of complex instrumentations and the ability to modify the instrumentation to meet the needs of the researchers.
• Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
• Demonstrated ability to use, read, and troubleshoot Python, C++, and MATLAB.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus,…