Systems Engineer

Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, DHPC, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way.

Systems Engineers will possess the ability to work independently in a small multi-disciplinary team utilizing their experience to conduct testing and evaluation services for a mature hardware in the loop simulation lab.  They will be comfortable creating detailed test plans and analyzing test outcomes to determine systems performance and lab capabilities.  Creation of test and results reports will be required to document project outcomes.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Create and implement test plans for component and system level performance evaluations
• Analyze test outcomes to determine performance and identify improvements in testing and system capabilities
• Provide expertise in systems engineering best practices and simulation testing and evaluation efforts
• Knowledgeable in systems engineering, V&V concepts, controls systems, vector calculus, and real-time simulations
• Ability to quickly adapt to new testing and simulation requirements and implementation of new capabilities

Required Skills:

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• Background in systems engineering, electrical engineering, or computer engineering with an emphasis on hardware controls, real-time simulations, or system engineering
• Experience working with real-time simulations and in hardware centric environments
• Ability to create and explain detailed and complex test plans to lab personnel for test execution
• Comfortable with vector calculus concepts such as basis vectors, coordinate transforms, and matrices
• Knowledgeable in standard laboratory devices such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, waveform generators, and signal I/O devices
• Familiar with MATLAB, SIMULINK, C/C++/C#, or Python for test plan development
• Proficient in writing technical documentation in MS word and PowerPoint
• Ability to be onsite five days a week
• Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• US Citizenship

Desired Skills:

• Substantial experience in hardware in the loop laboratories overseeing integration, V&V, and evolving lab requirements and capabilities
• Expertise with real time simulation environments
• Active TS/SCI clearance

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that 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, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.