Co-Op, SCADA Engineer

The role

You will build a live connectivity diagram and health dashboards for a SCADA system spanning cloud and on-premise infrastructure. This involves monitoring AWS, Ignition gateways, and edge nodes.

What you will do

• Build a live topology view of edge nodes, brokers, gateways, and databases
• Surface RDS PostgreSQL health metrics
• Dashboard Ignition gateway and EC2 metrics
• Monitor on-premise edge nodes for reachability, uptime, resource use, and last publish time
• Integrate existing sources into one interface
• Document the setup for future maintenance

Required qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field
• Available full time for the Spring 2027 co-op term, on-site at Alewife
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and data collection
• Comfortable working in Linux from the command line
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals: IP addressing, subnets, ports, and routing
• Clear written communication for documenting dashboards and findings

Nice to have

• Exposure to AWS, particularly EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, or IAM
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tooling
• Familiarity with Ignition, MQTT or Sparkplug, or other industrial SCADA tooling
• JavaScript or React, useful for building inside Ignition Perspective

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory instruments into an operating system for science.