Group 94, Electronics for Contested Space, is seeking a digital signal processing engineer to assist multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers in developing the next generation of resilient space systems. Alongside world-class experts, you will model, analyze, prototype, and demonstrate innovative concepts using real-world experiments across the terrestrial and space domains.

An ideal candidate is a self-driven contributor, an effective communicator of technical content to all audiences, and an effective member of an interdisciplinary team. Broad experience in multiple technology areas and applications will make a candidate for this role stand out.

Occasional travel to support field exercises, presentations to sponsors and the community, and other events may be required.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar technical field
  • A technical Degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience will be also be considered
• Experience with digital signal processing techniques and algorithms
• Software engineering experience with demonstrated proficiency in C/C++, Rust, Java, or another system-level programming language, with a focus on developing secure, scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Professional or academic experience in at least one of the following areas, and some familiarity and career interest in several others:
• Radar systems: including radar system design, evaluation and analysis
• Remote sensing: passive/active RF and optical systems analysis, simulation, high-level design
• Electronics: analog / digital signal processing, prototype test development and execution
• Control of autonomous systems: state estimation, instrument modeling, navigation, remote, unattended operation
• Mechanical and materials: harsh environments, novel mechanisms, surface interactions
• Physics: classical electromagnetics, plasmas, optics, ionizing radiation
• Systems engineering: integrated modeling, interface management, concept development
• Space systems: vehicle design, environment analysis, performance estimation, risk assessment
• Demonstrable ability to:
  • Work responsibly and safely in laboratory and assembly environments
  • Develop respectful, productive working relationships
  • Communicate clearly, precisely, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Solve broad and/or complex technical or engineering problems
  • Learn and apply advanced technical knowledge quickly and proficiently
• Analytical and/or scientific programming proficiency and experience applying to solve real technical problems (e.g. MATLAB, Python, C/C++, or similar)

Desired Skills

• Active Top Secret Security Clearance highly desired
• Ability to develop code and operate in a Linux computing environment
• Familiarity with container technologies and container orchestration tools
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions) and security integration tools.
• Experience developing software in alignment with cybersecurity requirements, including secure coding practices, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance with security standards.
• Experience analyzing large datasets in MATLAB, Python, R, or C/C++

Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $100,200-$120,000
Experienced Hiring Range: $100,200-$150,000

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• MIT-funded pension
• Matching 401K
• Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Mentorship programs
• A range of work-life balance options
• ... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret level DoD security clearance.

Requisition ID: 43288