Design and Analysis Engineer (Mid-Level or Senior)

Job Description

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Join a fast-paced Boeing Phantom Works program in Berkeley, MO responsible for integrating highly complex sensors, communications, and weapon systems. As a Design and Analysis Engineer (Mid-Level or Senior), you will develop and integrate multi-sensor fusion solutions that combine IR, RF, and offboard data to deliver reliable fused tracks and sensor products for mission-critical systems. This role spans algorithm design, real-time implementation, system integration, verification, and stakeholder communication.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define system and interface requirements for multi-sensor fusion across IR and RF domains, and for integration of onboard and offboard sources (datalinks, distributed sensors).

• Architect and document fusion solutions: block diagrams, data flows, latency/bandwidth budgets, timing, and synchronization.

• Design, prototype, and evaluate fusion algorithms (track association, data association, state estimation, sensor registration, bias estimation, confidence/uncertainty quantification).

• Develop simulations, test plans, and lead lab/field verification, validation, and performance characterization.

• Specify and enforce data models, messaging formats, timestamping, and coordinate-frame conventions to ensure interoperable integration.

• Integrate algorithms into real-time processors and embedded platforms; collaborate with SW/HW teams on optimization, profiling, and deployment.

• Analyze failure modes, perform sensitivity and robustness studies, and specify fault detection/recovery behaviors.

• Produce concise technical documentation for design decisions, validation results, and safety/compliance artifacts.

• Communicate results, tradeoffs, and operational suitability to leadership, customers, and industry partners; support user demonstrations.

• Own algorithm lifecycle: requirements → design → prototyping → verification → optimization → deployment → maintenance.

• Take ownership of assigned capabilities and features and delivers end-to-end.

• Communicate tradeoffs and recommended paths forward to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proactively document decisions and contribute to reusable patterns and standards.

• Level 3 Responsibilities:

  • Expected to independently deliver complex fusion features and integrations.

  • Own end-to-end algorithm development and prototype-to-embedded translation for assigned capability areas.

  • Mentor junior engineers and integrate across disciplinary teams (sensors, software, systems).

  • Contribute design artifacts and trade studies; drive verification of delivered capabilities.

• Level 4 Responsibilities:

  • Leads cross-functional technical initiatives and sets architecture for major fusion capabilities or subsystems.

  • Drives system-level requirements, end-to-end data flow designs, and architectural trade-offs impacting multiple teams.

  • Responsible for technical mentorship, standards, and enabling scalable integration and verification practices.

  • Frequently represents the program in technical reviews with customers and partners.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.

• Level 3: 5+ years of related work experience and a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of related work experience and technical education.

• Level 4: 9+ years of related work experience and a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of related work experience and technical education.

• Solid experience (Level 3: ~5+ years; Level 4: ~9+ years) in multi-sensor data fusion, tracking, or signal processing for IR and/or RF domains.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Experience):

• Demonstrated competency with sensor fusion techniques: Kalman filters/variants, MHT, particle filters, Bayesian methods, and data association.

• Hands-on prototyping experience in MATLAB/Simulink and/or Python; demonstrated ability to translate algorithms to C/C++ for embedded or real-time targets.

• Experience integrating onboard