Applied Mathematician--Communications, Navigation, and Timing Engineering (PhD Preferred)

About the role

MITRE’s Communications, SIGINT, and PNT department seeks talented mathematicians and applied mathematicians to join our team. You will leverage your strong mathematics background to help solve important problems in electrical engineering, particularly in areas such as signal processing algorithms for navigation and communication systems, next-generation signals for communications, satellite, and radio navigation, and techniques for detecting, locating, and identifying signals.

Responsibilities

• Apply your technical expertise towards furthering the public good by developing, applying, and evaluating state-of-the-art navigation and communication technologies.
• Develop state-of-the art signal processing algorithms for navigation and communication systems (radio navigation, wireless communications, vision navigation, etc.).
• Design and implement next generation signals for communications, satellite, and radio navigation.
• Research and develop techniques for detecting, locating, and identifying signals.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree (MS, PhD) with relevant experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, C++, or other modeling and data analysis software tools.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
• Desire to apply a strong math background to real-world applications and to develop skills in communications, navigation, and timing.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in mathematics, applied mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Experience with applying theory to real world applications.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills.
• The ability to build collaborative and mutually beneficial working relationships with people of different backgrounds.

Pay

$103,600 - $129,500 - $155,400

Schedule

Hybrid