Embedded System Architect-Technical Staff
Date: Feb 6, 2025
Location: Lexington, MA, US
Company: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory sits at the intersection of academia, industry, and government. Our nationally-recognized staff work collaboratively to solve some of the nation’s most challenging problems. As part of the Engineering Division, we team broadly across MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT campus to address a wide variety of problems through analysis, design, prototyping, and testing. Our teaming culture energizes our staff and fosters a high level of collaboration among a wide array of skills and experience levels. In addition, the group values work-life balance, using hybrid arrangements and flexible schedules to maximize productivity.
The group is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that a diverse workplace fosters a creative and productive atmosphere and we are dedicated to making sure that every staff member in the group is supported in their work and that every voice is heard. The Laboratory sponsors resource groups and events dedicated to a wide variety of identities.
Help us build highly impactful space prototypes for NASA, the DoD, and others!
The Control and Autonomous Systems Engineering Group is dedicated to developing highly complex, reliable space systems with core capabilities in precision pointing, low noise and high-power electronics, firmware, and software. We have the unique ability to take programs from initial concept through full qualification, all within our group.
Position Description
In the Technical Staff role you will be empowered to lead significant portions of space electronics programs that have huge impact for the nation. In this role you combine leadership with individual contributions through all phases of hardware development: requirement definition and functional decompositions, architecture studies, detailed circuit design and component selection, fabrication and assembly oversight, testing, troubleshooting and system integration. You will also be expected to prepare and present technical briefings for sponsors (interim status reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, etc.) You will frequently lead small teams consisting of 3-6 peers or more junior engineers for larger design efforts. Therefore, hands on experience and leadership acumen are critical to the role.
Qualifications
Given the wide range of work in our Group, we seek the following attributes:
- Ph.D. (desired) or M.S. (required) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or another closely related field.
- At least 10 years of hands-on experience designing systems crossing the hardware / software boundary.
- Significant professional or academic experience interacting with the regulations and testing requirements from at least one of the following industries:
- Aerospace, Nuclear, Medical Device, Automotive
- Ability to create clear and concise technical and non-technical documents and present them to audiences of varied technical background.
- Learn and apply technical knowledge quickly and proficiently.
- Experience leading technical teams.
- Experience with model-based design for control, software, firmware, or electrical systems.
- Experience with the full Software Development Lifecycle in a professional setting.
- Proficiency in at least one low level computer language, preferably C.
- Experience designing and fabricating PCBs from concept through delivery to customer in one of the following areas: Analog, Digital, Mixed-Signal, Power, FPGA, Single Board Computers.
- Hands on experience with electronics lab equipment for testing and integration (multimeter, oscilloscope, function generator, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzers).
Additional Qualifications
Exceptional candidates may also have experience in one or more of the following:
- Experience developing embedded systems for radiation hardened (e.g. space) applications including parts screening, BOM development, electronic design for mitigation of radiation effects, software/firmware mitigation of radiation effects
- Research experience in a closely related field through to publication in a peer reviewed journal or conference.
- Experience using an EDA (Mentor Graphics, Altium)
- Experience using circuit simulation and analysis software (PSpice, Simscape)
- Experience developing in high level languages (C++, Java, Rust)
- Experience developing in scripting languages (Python, MATLAB, Bash, LUA)
- Experience developing real-time embedded systems.
- Experience developing software on top of an RTOS (VxWorks, Xenomai)
- Experience developing firmware (VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog) to model design, simulate, test, and implement FPGA-based systems.
- Detailed electronic analysis including worst case circuit analysis, derating analysis.
- Experience analyzing large data sets in a numeric analysis language (MATLAB, Python, R)
- Experience developing experiments, hardware, and software for risk mitigation, requirements V&V, diagnosis of anomalies.
At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:
- 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
- ... and much more!
Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.
Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and will obtain and maintain a Secret clearance to start but must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret level DoD security clearance with compartmented program eligibility in the future.
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: 41863
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