Senior Hardware Integration and Test Engineer
$82,300–$205,750 year
On-site · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
The Senior Integration & Test Engineer at Draper plays a key role in developing hardware systems for applications in GN&C, defense, and space sectors. Responsibilities include leading test plan development, supporting design processes, analyzing sensor performance, and creating supporting test equipment and scripts. The position requires strong ownership and leadership skills, effective communication, and collaboration within multidisciplinary teams. A bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering fields and 5-7 years of experience in Systems Engineering are required, along with extensive knowledge in verification and validation planning for industry applications.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field.
- 5-7 years in Systems Engineering or relevant role.
- Highly experienced with verification and validation planning and execution for industry applications, including design of test or design of experiment methodologies.
- Proven ability to derive test plans, approaches, and procedures for solving complex I&T problems across a program lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience developing large scale test programs and plans, and systems engineering documents for complex electro-mechanical and/or electro-optical systems.
- Proven ability to design and develop test systems (hardware and software), test equipment, and fixturing required to support integration and testing activities for assigned programs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead small to medium sized teams, collaborate, and present to stakeholders across internal and external functional boundaries.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple tasks and programs while tracking priorities, scope, cost, and schedule.
- Proven ability to take ownership of multiple programs and assignments while providing guidance to program leadership and team members.
- Demonstrated ability to identify program and system-level technical risks and develop and execute effective mitigation strategies.
- Significant experience with integration, testing, and troubleshooting of complex electro-mechanical and/or electro-optical systems and their sensors.
- Demonstrated experience in completing system design technical baseline activities e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.
- Ability to effectively collect relevant data and apply data analysis methods and data analytics tools to extract critical information on a wide variety of systems.
- Proficiency in at least one software programming language and its use for system testing (e.g., MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW).
Desired Qualifications
- Majority of experience working with strategic weapon systems, DoD, space, GN&C, inertial systems, and the like.
- Knowledge of MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) that includes system modeling languages (e.g., SysML) and relevant tools (e.g., MagicDraw).
- Experience in functional system modeling and simulation development using MATLAB, Simulink, or other comparable tools.
- Experience with the use of DOORS for systems requirements development, traceability, and/or verification and validation.
- Knowledge of control theory, or mixed-signal hardware systems, computer vision, sensor fusion.
- Familiarity with LabVIEW, Python, C, C++, MATLAB Proficiency with CAD or FEA/CFD modeling tools.
Additional Requirements
- Applicants selected for this position are required to be eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
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