It depends what you do. If you do embedded software/embedded hardware (microcontrollers, FPGA, kernel dev kinda stuff), you'd probably have a spot with the exp

It depends what you do. If you do embedded software/embedded hardware (microcontrollers, FPGA, kernel dev kinda stuff), you'd probably have a spot with the experiment operators. Maintaining the experiments generally requires a decent bit of low level software and hardware experience even if you aren't necessarily sitting down and coding every day. And if you are good with interpreting/processing data you may also still be able to land a seat with the experiment operators since they do that as well. Or if you have Ops/DevOps, SysAdmin, or DB Admin experience, you likely could secure a slot in IT. You likely wouldn't get the job the first time around but if you keep submitting applications, eventually you are likely to secure a job down on the ice.