Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com.

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A typical assignment will begin with conducting a literature survey of state-of-the-art receiver algorithms. You would identify the most promising candidates, conduct a highly-competent, mission-relevant trade study using MATLAB, and report your recommendations to our sponsors and collaborators. You would then write a design specification, work with our SW and HDL teams to realize a deliverable product, and periodically evaluate the product's field performance, with an eye toward continuous improvement.

Other assignments will apply the same basic process to developing new waveforms and electronic attack and electronic protection systems, all geared toward the full life cycle of fielded products.

Additional responsibilities include presenting our results and recommendations in forums such as MILCOM and intra-government conferences; advising and mentoring signal processing graduate students at top universities through the Draper scholars program as we build our talent pipeline; and conceiving new ideas and concepts, and presenting them in the form of task orders, proposals, patents and white papers.

Our executives and sponsors have made a long-term commitment to this business area, and we look forward to helping you build a meaningful, high-impact career leading our team.

Required Qualifications:

PhD in Electrical engineering with 10+ years of experience. Other education/experience will be considered for well-qualified applicants.
• Background in communications and information theory, adaptive signal processing and recursive estimation, detection and estimation theory, and array processing

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in electromagnetics, RF design and acoustics, as well as systems courses such as SONAR and RADAR.
• Interest in understanding the range of available computing architectures, such GPP, GPU, FPGA and Full Custom ASICs and able to lead us in picking the right tool for the job
• Proficient in prototyping, simulating, and testing systems in MATLAB.

Security Requirement:

Applicants expected to acquire and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

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