Senior Experimentation Engineer

APOGEE RESEARCH LLC•Arlington, VA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Apogee Research is seeking a full-time Senior Experimentation Engineer to join their team in Arlington, VA. This role involves collaborating with teams to generate hypotheses, design experiments, gather and analyze data, and develop practical solutions for impactful problems within the DoD's shift towards compositional systems of systems. The position requires some travel to support test and exercise events. The specific details of the role will adapt to the candidate's expertise and project needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field (e.g. Physics, Computer Science/Engineering, Applied Math, etc.) plus 7 or more years of experience; or Master’s. plus 5 years of experience; or PhD and 2 years of experience
Strong analytical and problem solving and organizational skills
Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
Relevant knowledge/experience with statistical methods and hypothesis testing
Demonstrated ability to be flexible and remain well organized in a fast-paced environment
US Citizen (required to apply for DoD Top Secret Clearance)

Nice To Haves

Experience in one or more of the following domains: Cyber, RF phenomenology, sensing, command and control, and distributed control systems.
DoD Top Secret Clearance
Relevant programming knowledge/experience with Python, Java, or C/C++

Responsibilities

Develop methodologies to effectively evaluate the reliability and validity of research experiments and their resulting claims.
Generate testable hypotheses from novel claims made by research teams.
Lead the end-to-end experimental process, including data collection, analysis of results, and interpretation of key findings.
Produce rapid software prototypes to test experimental hypotheses and/or analyze experimental results.
Develop mathematical models of experimental results for new insights or research directions.
Learn new technologies and/or develop fundamentally new approaches as needed.
Propose innovative solutions and/or compare tradeoffs between multiple approaches.