RESEARCH SCIENTIST - SCIENTIST - LABVIEW & DAQ

Who We Are:

The Rotating Machinery Group at Southwest Research Institute is responsible for transitioning ideas and concepts for improving machinery, machinery based power systems, and renewable energy systems into tangible systems that we design, build, and test.

Objectives of this Role:

• Assist engineers in developing instrument strategies for tests to ensure that the team can adequately monitor machine performance, safety, and health of the machine.
• Create custom GUI in LabVIEW to control and display data.
• Analyze data in excel and MATLAB and report data to the client.
• Assist in providing thermochemical energy storage media modeling and analysis.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

• Design, DAQ setups to enable high speed data acquisition control and monitoring using pressures, temperatures, and lasers.
• Use Labview to develop acquisition and control modules and GUIs
• Program various functions and sub-VIs to monitor instruments and perform calculations
• Understand various electrical instruments including pressure transducers, eddy current probes, thermocouples, lasers.
• Design experiments and test setups to study thermochemical energy storage media

Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelors, Masters, or a PhD in Physics or Chemistry
• 0-2 years: BS with an interest in Data Acquisition, LabVIEW, PLC's, Instrumentation and sensors.
• Master's or /PhD with academic experience in Data Acquisition, LabVIEW, PLC's, Instrumentation and sensors.
• A valid/clear driver's license is required