4 months ago
Cambridge, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$82k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Model operational environments and perform simulation-based studies to recommend alternative architectures.
- Analyze system survivability, effectiveness, and performance in engagement- and mission-level scenarios.
- Architect, integrate, verify, and validate simulation components within aerospace project life cycles.
- Develop simulation requirements, software development plans, test plans, automated tests, and test-result documentation.
- Develop real-time hardware interfaces, integrate legacy software models, and create new models with subject matter experts.
- Integrate 3D visualization tools and develop and maintain an in-house real-time software framework.
- Triage, debug, and resolve software and hardware integration issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of systems engineering or related experience.
- Professional software development experience in a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Significant experience with C/C++ and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Experience with Python software development, Linux including Bash scripting and system administration, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization, and virtualization.
- Knowledge of dynamic modeling, analytical methods, data visualization, aerospace systems, and related sciences.
- Ability to develop software and hardware integration solutions, understand new software APIs, and address human factors, UI/UX, and usability requirements.
- Experience with real-time operating systems is preferred or advantageous.
- Current in-scope Top Secret clearance required, with ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Workplace flexibility programs, employee clubs, health and finance workshops, off-site social events, and discounts to local museums and cultural activities.
About Draper
Draper is an independent, nonprofit engineering R&D organization that designs and delivers complex systems for government, defense, space, and biomedical customers. It works as a prime contractor and subcontractor on programs spanning guidance and navigation (PNT), autonomous systems, human systems, and special programs, with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its business model centers on sponsored research and engineering services for U.S. government agencies, industry partners, and academia.