Senior Structural Health Monitoring Engineer

As a Senior Structural Health Monitoring Engineer you will work within and lead government - contractor teams designing and testing current and next generation naval and commercial platforms

This is a full time onsite position in West Bethesda MD

What you will do:

Responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and deploying shipboard and shore-based systems to model, monitor, and predict naval platform structural health.  Tasking will span the lifecycle of Structural Health Monitoring systems including the design, development, and updates of ship condition databases and/or individual ship digital twins, definition of shipboard and shore-based system architectures for ship data collection and processing systems, development of required documentation such as ship change documents or authority to operate, installation of sensors and acquisition, data collection or retrieval, system troubleshooting and maintenance, and system capability expansion.  Tasks will include analyses to assess accuracy of analysis algorithms, methods for error handling (sensor, data, software errors), data science to improve real-time shipboard decision making, improvement of data visualization tools, and development of SHM system training materials.

Education and Experience:

BS in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering.  10+ years of experience.  Experience in marine structures preferred

• Experience in ship digital twin and/or ship condition databases
• Experience in development of structural health data acquisition, storage, processing, or analysis systems
• Possess or able to obtain certification necessary for IAT Level II
• Must be U.S. Citizen
• Requires an Active DoD SECRET Clearance or ability to obtain an Interim Secret Clearance prior to start date.

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way. 

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.