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Contract Biomedical Instrumentation Engineer Jobs in Alabama

Ability to Obtain Secret TRAVEL: ~10% Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract , supporting the IDAP Division.

Ability to Obtain Secret TRAVEL: ~10% Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract , supporting the IDAP Division.

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Contract Biomedical Instrumentation Engineer information

What is the difference between Contract Biomedical Instrumentation Engineer vs Biomedical Equipment Technician?

AspectContract Biomedical Instrumentation EngineerBiomedical Equipment Technician
CredentialsBachelor's degree in biomedical engineering or related field; certifications like BIET or CRESAssociate degree or certification in biomedical technology; BIET certification often preferred
Work EnvironmentProject-based, often consulting or contract roles in hospitals, clinics, or biomedical companiesHospital biomed departments, repair shops, or healthcare facilities
Employer & Industry UsageMedical device companies, healthcare providers, biomedical service firmsHospitals, clinics, biomedical service providers

The Contract Biomedical Instrumentation Engineer typically holds a bachelor's degree and works on specialized projects or contracts, focusing on designing, testing, and maintaining biomedical equipment. In contrast, the Biomedical Equipment Technician usually has an associate degree or certification and performs routine maintenance, repairs, and troubleshooting of medical devices on-site. Both roles are essential in healthcare technology management but differ mainly in scope, responsibilities, and work setting.

Instrumentation Engineer

Astrion

Huntsville, AL โ€ข On-site

Full-time

Posted 29 days ago


Job description

Overview
Instrumentation Engineer
LOCATION: Redstone Arsenal, AL
JOB STATUS: Full-time
CLEARANCE: Ability to Obtain Secret
TRAVEL: ~10%
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
  • Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited school or a degree in an applicable technical specialty.
  • 10+ years' experience in engineering design, fabrication, research, and/or testing of instrumentation sensors and data collection.
  • Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff. Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
  • Familiar with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 and aircraft transducers, experience with low-speed data systems and pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTDs, flowmeters, strain gages and high-speed data systems, accelerometers, high frequency pressure transducers.
  • Very familiar with engineering and mathematics applications software's such as Maple MathCAD and MATLAB; compute and graph simple and complex mathematical expressions, discrete sequences and systems, audio and image processing and construction of simple Simulink models.
  • Multisim or Electronic Workbench; design, simulate and analyze analog and digital circuits schematics
  • Familiar with Creo schematics & Parametric with Windchill
  • Familiar with electrical instruments such as function generators, digital multimeter and oscilloscope
  • Experience using DIT-MCO and Cablescan electrical testing software.
  • Experience with NI LabView Test Stand, DEWESOFT & Safran flight test products.
  • Experience with SolidWorks Electrical & Mentor Graphics
  • Experience in trouble shooting of electrical system down to component level.
  • Familiar with Creo-Parametric and windchill.
  • Familiar with RF Antenna & receiver setup for telemetry systems
  • Proficient with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

(U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants)
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
  • Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff.
  • Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
  • Experience initiating and developing requirements for DoD project execution.
  • Ability to read and create electrical schematics.
  • Ability to create or modify Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) data streams.
  • Working knowledge of programming numerical systems and how to interface with, and record data from, military aviation platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Support ground and flight testing for a variety of aircraft modification programs.
  • Collaborate with the Flight Test team to define each program's instrumentation requirements, as well as modify/maintain the data acquisition system hardware and software, support instrumentation planning, installation, and calibration.
  • Support procurement activities such as specification development, cost estimating, quote review, question and answer sessions, vendor documentation review, site acceptance review
  • Assess, design, develop, integrate, and test system instrumentation components.
  • Coordinate with flight test engineers and provide PDR, CDR of instrumentation system design parameters list.
  • Work with techs to support hardware calibration in the lab, installation of instrumentation on the aircraft, and provide airworthiness a detailed report of system functionality.
  • Develop controls and instrumentation documentation such as requirement definition, logic and flow diagrams, interface definition, software design documents, instrumentation, and device I/O documentation, etc.

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