Senior Laser Communications Systems Engineer

3 weeks ago


Lexington, Massachusetts, United States MIT Lincoln Laboratory Full time

Job Summary:

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is seeking a highly motivated and proactive Staff member to join the Advanced Lasercom Systems and Operations Group. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in laser physics, engineering, and communications, with experience in analysis, modeling, and simulation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with engineers to develop understanding and intuition of system or subsystem performance
  • Perform system trade studies, providing analysis and recommendations to shape architectural development and system design
  • Assess, maintain, and improve the Group's analysis toolkits using various programming languages
  • Assist in new concept development and provide analysis/simulations to prove out and understand limitations of concepts
  • Document, communicate, and generate visualizations of results

Requirements:

  • Master's of Science in Electrical or other Engineering discipline, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, or similar discipline, with experience analyzing, modeling, interpreting, and visualizing data or a Bachelor's of Science with 5+ years of experience
  • Experience with MATLAB, or a willingness to learn MATLAB and experience with similar tools
  • Experience with modern software engineering tools, including code repositories, version control, issue tracking, with a preference for Atlassian tools
  • Programming/scripting experience with numerical simulation/analysis applications, languages to include python and C/C++ at a minimum
  • Background in communications, laser physics/engineering, atmospheric physics, and/or control systems

Benefits:

  • 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

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

Equal Employment Opportunity: MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.



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