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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Sensors, Electromagnetics and EW Department—within 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:

• Antennas and electromagnetics

• Sensors (Radar, EO, IR, Hyperspectral, LiDAR)

• HF sensing and communications

• Signal Processing and Algorithm Development

• Satellite communications

• Electronic Warfare (EW)

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

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Foster and develop innovative, transformational solutions to sensing related challenges and capability gaps for both fielded and developmental systems

• Develop and utilize MATLAB code for sensor design development, test and evaluation, 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

• Designing and prototyping 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 work shaping and proposal development efforts to expand our work program into new areas

• Engage in personal career and technical growth as well as the growth of others through mentoring, training, and collaboration

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience in EE, Mathematics or Physics.

• Strong technical skills related to sensor technologies and methods

• Experience with signal processing and algorithm development

• Demonstrated ability to effectively use programming environments such as MATLAB or Python to develop engineering models and analyze data.

• 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

• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance.

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in electrical engineering, math, or physics

• Experience developing sensor tracking algorithms

• Experience with Electronic Warfare (EW)

• Holds a Top Secret/SCI Clearance

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

Secret

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

Top Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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