Senior Sensor Engineer - Huntsville, AL

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MITREs Sensors, Electromagnetics and EW Departmentwithin MITRE Labs Electronic Systems and Technologies Innovation Center is a broad and experienced team focused on designing, prototyping, evaluating, testing and fielding disruptive solutions in the following technology areas:

• Sensors (Radar, EO, IR, Hyperspectral, LiDAR)
• HF sensing and communications
• Antennas and electromagnetics
• Signal Processing and Algorithm Development
• Electronic Warfare (EW) for radar

We are looking to grow our team and are seeking highly talented and motivated candidates with strong technical skills in these areas.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership with the potential to lead a sensor capability development area within a government integrated product team environment with responsibilities that include partnering technical outcomes across multiple stakeholders and organizations.
• Foster and develop innovative, transformational solutions to sensing related challenges and capability gaps for both fielded and developmental systems
• Develop and utilize code (MATLAB, Python) for sensor design, development, test and evaluation, and performance modeling at the system and sub-system level
• Participate in data collections, conduct experiments and perform data analyses
• Evaluate technologies, identify risks, and develop alternate solutions
• Design and prototype sensor algorithms and sensor signal processing solutions,
• Develop and evaluate sensor requirements for both fielded and developmental systems
• Participate in MITRE Labs presence in peer-reviewed publications, patent submissions, and external conferences/workshops
• Support/lead work shaping and proposal development efforts to expand our work program into new areas
• Engage in personal career and technical growth as well as quickly developing skills to support the development of others through mentoring, training, and collaboration

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 3 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Strong technical skills related to sensor technologies and methods
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use programming environments such as MATLAB or Python to develop engineering models and analyze sensor data.
• Experience with signal processing and/or algorithm development
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts simply and concisely, making needed connections, and bridging across domains as appropriate
• Proven experience fostering collaboration
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate clearly in technical terms with both engineering staff and project leadership
• Strong writing and briefing skills
• Ability to work on site four days a week or more depending on mission objectives.
• Ability to obtain a DoD SECRET Security Clearance.
• Per the U.S. Governments eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in electrical engineering, math, or physics
• Active TOP SECRET/SCI Security Clearance
• Experience developing tracking algorithms
• Experience with antenna array design and analysis
• Experience with Electronic Warfare (EW)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$126,800 - $158,500 - $190,200 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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