Senior Hardware Integration and Test Engineer

Overview:

Draper is an independent nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge MA. The 2000 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 .

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Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
Able to take ownership of assignments and guide others as needed; successfully lead tasks while tracking priorities scope cost and schedule.
Derive plans approaches procedures for solving complex I&T problems across a program lifecycle capturing all assumptions and adapting appropriately to changes in requirements with limited direction.
Independently contributes high quality content for technical reports and presentations which shows an understanding of their task and an awareness of the intended audience. Demonstrates both confidence and success when presenting technical information during meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful constructive feedback
Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills/Abilities
Curiosity-driven approach to solving complex industry and customer-driven problems as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Collaborate and communicate effectively and openly with multi-disciplinary program team members. program leadership and non-technical personnel
Be a team player able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to balance multiple competing tasks and demands.

Education
Requires a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Engineering Systems Engineering Applied Physics or related field.

Experience
Requires 5-7 years in Systems Engineering or relevant role.

Additional Job Description:

Required Qualifications:

• Highly experienced with verification and validation planning and execution for industry applications including design of test or design of experiment methodologies.
• Proven ability to derive test plans approaches and procedures for solving complex I&T problems across a program lifecycle capturing all assumptions and adapting appropriately to changes in requirements and program direction with limited to no direction.
• Demonstrated experience developing large scale test programs and plans and systems engineering documents for complex electro-mechanical and/or electro-optical systems.
• Proven ability to design and develop test systems (hardware and software) test equipment and fixturing required to support integration and testing activities for assigned programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead small to medium sized teams collaborate and present to stakeholders across internal and external functional boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple tasks and programs while tracking priorities scope cost and schedule.
• Proven ability to take ownership of multiple programs and assignments while providing guidance to program leadership and team members.
• Demonstrated ability to identify program and system-level technical risks and develop and execute effective mitigation strategies.
• Significant experience with integration testing and troubleshooting of complex electro-mechanical and/or electro-optical systems and their sensors.
• Demonstrated experience in completing system design technical baseline activities e.g. SRR PDR CDR TRR etc.
• Ability to effectively collect relevant data and apply data analysis methods and data analytics tools to extract critical information on a wide variety of systems.
• Proficiency in at least one software programming language and its use for system testing (e.g. MATLAB Python LabVIEW).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Majority of experience working with strategic weapon systems DoD space GN&C inertial systems and the like.
• 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 with the use of DOORS for systems requirements development traceability and/or verification and validation.

• Knowledge of control theory or mixed-signal hardware systems computer vison sensor fusion.
• Familiarity with LabVIEW Python C C MATLAB
• Proficiency with CAD or FEA/CFD modeling tools

Applicants selected for this position are required to be eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

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