The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Integration and Test Engineer

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
  • 5-7 years of experience in Systems Engineering or a related role.
  • Proficient in evaluating high-precision inertial systems like gyroscopes and accelerometers.
  • Experience in verification and validation planning and execution.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams and collaborate effectively across functions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage assignments while guiding team members as needed.
  • Develop plans for solving complex integration and testing problems throughout the program lifecycle.
  • Generate high-quality technical reports and presentations tailored to varied audiences.
  • Identify technical risks and formulate effective mitigation strategies.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide constructive feedback.

Benefits

  • Work-life balance support programs such as workplace flexibility.
  • Access to employee clubs (photography, yoga) and social events.
  • Health and finance workshops to promote overall well-being.
  • Discounts at local museums and cultural activities.
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

Production Design, Verification & Validation Group at Draper is seeking a senior engineer with broad technical skills to work in a multidisciplinary environment to conceptualize, develop, analyze, and assess robust GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control) systems 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 system models, test development and planning, conducting analysis on systems packages, and evaluating sub-system performance integrated into high-level systems. Demonstrated experience integrating and testing complex hardware systems is required.

A successful candidate will have:
-Experience evaluating high-precision inertial systems (e.g., gyroscopes and accelerometers), including understanding the device physics, associated errors models, analysis techniques, 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.

-Demonstrated experience in completing system design technical baseline activities i.e. SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.

-Strong ability to lead small to medium-sized teams, collaborate, and present to stakeholders across internal and external functional boundaries.

-Ability to effectively apply data analysis methods and data analytics tools to extract important information for utility.

-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.

-Hybrid Position with expectations of a min of 60% on site work

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities
• Help define an I&T approach for a particular component / subsystem / system and independently execute plan.
• Contribute high quality content for technical reports and presentations with minimal guidance.
• Adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements.
• Proactively identify needs and concerns associated with plan execution and communicate them to project leadership.
• 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 bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field.

Experience
Requires 3-5 years in Systems Engineering or relevant role.

Additional Job Description:

  • Preferred Qualifications:
    • Experience working with system integration and system level testing
    • Experience in Systems requirements development and traceability and/or verification and validation with DOORS.
    • Experience in developing Master Test Plans from development to production (DVT, Qualification and ATP).
    • Experience with environmental test or unique test cells for achieving system validation.
    • Experience with strategic weapon, DoD, space, GN&C, or inertial systems.
    • Experience integrating and testing complex hardware/software systems.
    • Ability to develop and effectively apply data analysis methods and data analytics tools to extract important information for utility.
    • Familiarity with LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB.
    • Experience in functional system modeling and simulation development using MATLAB, Simulink, or other comparable tools.
    • Knowledge of digital signal processing, control theory, or mixed-signal hardware systems.

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

Job Location - City:

Cambridge

Job Location - State:

Massachusetts

Job Location - Postal Code:

The US base salary range for this full-time position is

$75,000.00 - $156,000.00

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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