Senior Sensor Engineer - Huntsville, AL

The Mitre Corporation•Huntsville, AL

5d•$126,800 - $190,200•Onsite

About The Position

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. 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: 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.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s 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.
U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Nice To Haves

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)

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