Communications and Networks Software Development Engineer

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (or related field) with a strong background in software development and mathematics.\n
• Proficiency with MATLAB, Python, C or C++, VHDL and/or embedded systems programming\n
• Proficiency with Linux or commercial real-time operating systems\n
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills\n
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.\n

You’ll work as part of highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams that bring together expertise in systems analysis, communications theory, networking, information assurance, systems engineering, RF, and digital hardware and software. This position offers hands-on opportunities to take ideas from concept through implementation and evaluation, and to collaborate with government sponsors, academic partners, and industry leaders. Your contributions will directly influence the design, development, and fielding of future DoW communications capabilities.\n \n \nResponsibilities\n \n \n \n

• Assess emerging commercial and DoW communications and network solutions, both software and hardware\n
• Software development and implementation of novel communications and networking algorithms and protocols\n
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design, prototype and test algorithms and protocols within a system of systems context\n
• Develop and design laboratory experiments that include ground, airborne, and space systems with hardware-in-the-loop\n
• Collect, analyze and interpret complex data sets from field and laboratory experiments\n
• Prepare technical documentation, including refereed publications, reports, and as well as technical presentations for multiple internal and external audiences\n
• Share new ideas and intuitions with your colleagues, collaborators and others in our technical communities through mentorship, education, and outreach opportunities.\n, * Experience and/or coursework in systems analysis, optimization, wireless communications theory, data networks, digital signal processing, estimation and detection, optimization, linear algebra\n
• Software Defined Networking hardware and software\n
• Cloud network technologies and protocols\n
• Media access control protocols\n
• Optimization and machine learning\n
• Fixed point algorithm design and implementation targeting embedded processors such as FPGA, GPU, DSP\n
• Software Defined Radio\n
• Demonstrated ability to plan and manage tasks and projects.\n

\n Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $100,200-$120,000\n Experienced Hiring Range: $100,200-$150,000\n \n \nDisclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate’s experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.\n \n 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: \n \n \n \n

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans\n
• MIT-funded pension\n
• Matching 401K\n
• Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)\n
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs\n
• Mentorship programs\n
• A range of work-life balance options\n
• … and much more!\n

\n 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.\n \n Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.\n \n