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The Sensors Integration & Test Group at Draper is seeking a senior engineer with a broad technical skills to work in a multidisciplinary environment to conceptualize, develop, analyze, and assess robust GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control) sensors for a wide variety of applications, including defense systems. Program roles will usually be Systems Engineer and/or Integration and Test Engineer. Tasking will include participating in the development of high-fidelity sensor models, test development and planning, conducting analysis on sensor packages, and evaluating sensor performance integrated into high-level assemblies and systems. Demonstrated experience integrating and testing complex hardware/software systems.

A successful candidate will be:

Highly motivated to support the delivery of technology solutions that are of strategic importance to the nation.
• Dedicated to developing in-depth mission and technology domain expertise that enable realization of such solutions for complex systems.
• Capable of planning and executing individual tasks on a multi-disciplinary team, as well as leading small teams as necessary.
• The ability to work in a team and succeed with a process-oriented setting is critical, as is the ability to thoroughly document and communicate one's work to a technical audience.

Required Qualifications:

• MS degree in applicable engineering discipline (Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Physics, or equivalent) and 5+ years of direct experience with the development, integration, and test of complex sensors or systems; or B.S. degree with 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in completing system design technical baseline activities i.e. SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.
• Experience in verification and validation planning and execution, including design of test or design of experiment methodologies; previous experience developing test programs and plans, and systems engineering documents.
• Strong ability to lead small teams, collaborate, and present to stakeholders across internal and external functional boundaries.
• Experience in integration and debug of complex systems and sensors.
• Ability to effectively apply data analysis methods and data analytics tools to extract important information for utility.
• Proficiency in at lease one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with strategic weapon, DoD, space, GN&C, or inertial systems.
• Knowledge of MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) that includes system modeling languages (e.g. SysML) and relevant tools (e.g. MagicDraw).
• Experience in functional system modeling and simulation development using Matlab, Simulink, or other comparable tools.

• Experience in Systems requirements development and traceability and/or verification and validation with DOORS

• Knowledge of digital signal processing, control theory, or mixed-signal hardware systems.
• Experience integrating and testing complex hardware/software systems.
• Familiarity with LabVIEW, Python, C, C++

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