36: Tech Staff

The Integrated Missile Defense Technology Group develops resilient, integrated missile defense solutions through threat characterization, advanced technology development, prototyping, and testing.  Our work is critical to the defense of the United States, deployed forces, and allies from missile attacks. This group performs detailed system and component engineering, flight and ground test analysis, and advanced capability development in collaboration with the contractors and government program offices that are developing the missile defense elements and components.

Job Description

• The successful candidate will join a nationally impactful team with a long history of ground-breaking radar related analysis and technology development in the areas of radar design, tracking, discrimination and more.  The candidate will contribute to the group’s efforts in developing and evaluating new radar algorithms in classical areas such as detection and tracking along with more sophisticated objectives like adaptation, characterization, and classification.
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• Example focus areas include:
  • Intelligent incorporation of relevant physical models into learning architectures for target characterization and classification
  • Systems analysis and algorithm design for proposed and existing state-of-the-art radar systems
  • Closed-loop active sensing to adaptively interrogate a set of targets and environment with an evolving amount of inferred information
  • Data engineering using expert knowledge of physics, signal processing, and the latest data management frameworks to enable efficient algorithm development and testing

Requirements

• • Degree: PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics or a related field. In lieu of an PhD, a MS and 3 years of experience will be considered.
  • Candidate must be willing and able to obtain and maintain an elevated level of security clearance
  • Experience with scientific computing tools (MATLAB, Python, C++, etc.)
  • Ability to communicate and work effectively with colleagues, sponsors, and other research organizations

 

• Desired Expertise or Experience:
  • Experience with any of the following: modern radar design, adaptive signal and array processing, tracking, statistical inference and decision systems, and data analysis
  • Development of modellings and simulations
  • Systems analysis
  • One or more modern programming languages, such as C/C++

 

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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.

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.

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 40190 #CJ