Lila Sciences
Co-Op, SCADA Engineer
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Internship · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
Alewife, Cambridge, MA - Education
- Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.
About the job
Build a read-only monitoring interface that maps SCADA infrastructure connectivity and dashboards database, gateway, and edge-node health.
What you'll do
- Build a live topology view with link status and last-seen timestamps, and consolidate existing monitoring sources into one interface.
- Create dashboards for PostgreSQL, Ignition gateway, EC2, and on-premise edge-node health.
- Document the setup so the team can maintain and extend it after the co-op.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Comfort with Linux command-line work, networking fundamentals, and clear written communication.
Nice to have
- Exposure to AWS, particularly EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, or IAM; experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tooling.
- Familiarity with Ignition, MQTT, Sparkplug, or other industrial SCADA tooling; JavaScript or React.
Tools
Python, Linux, AWS, EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, Ignition, MQTT
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