Staff Engineer 2

Applied Research Associates (ARA) is looking for a Staff Engineer with a broad set of skills and experience to join our Rocky Mountain Division in Littleton, CO. Our diverse, energetic, and collaborative Rocky Mountain Division offers an excellent opportunity to join our dynamic, employee-owned team in providing critical capabilities to our warfighters through innovative engineering solutions.  Our work spans basic scientific studies through concept development and productization allowing us to transition our knowledge and prototypes to fulfill critical needs for end users.

Are you looking for a career in an industry focused on designing, developing, and rapidly deploying solutions to problems of national importance?  Come join our team!

As a Staff Engineer you will support active contracts on a collaborative research team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to pursue their passions with the freedom to expand their work to their areas of interest and expertise, while serving our customers and end users.

 

Primary Role and Responsibilities

• Discover, define, develop, and deploy novel audio and electrical technologies that can be used to enhance communications and hearing protection systems.
• Develop novel sensing solutions.
• Act as a technical resource for other engineers and scientists within the company.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related, preferably related to acoustics.
• 5+ years’ relevant work experience.

Position Requirements

• US Citizen
• Ability to obtain a DoD Security Clearance
• On-site work at ARA’s Littleton, Colorado facility
• Periodic travel to other ARA offices, subcontractor sites, and customer locations
• Demonstrated ability to work well within a team and independently.
• Significant experience in at least two of the following fields: acoustical engineering, amplifier design, embedded programming, PCB design/fabrication

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering or related
• Understanding of the field of acoustics and/or human perception of sound.
• Defining audio and electric system requirements
• Evaluating and troubleshooting hardware in the lab.
• Integrating acoustic transducers into existing technology.
• Creating and tuning audio algorithms (AGC/limiters/compressors, stereo)
• Developing test methods to evaluate new technologies.
• Developing tools for evaluating audio performance
• Experience working with microelectronics to include selection of components, development of breadboard systems, and programming embedded or PC-connected control systems.
• Experience performing prototyping through low-rate initial production (LRIP).
• Experience working in Altium to create production-ready PCB designs.
• Experience performing contract/grant-based research and development relevant to National Defense applications.
• Motivation to succeed in a cross-functional team spanning multiple disciplines to deliver results in a timely manner.
• A strong record of written and verbal communication through reports, peer-reviewed publications, and/or conference presentations.

 

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2,200 professionals and continues to grow. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership spawns’ greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.