Principal Specialist, Signal Processing / Controls Engineer
About the role
At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.
RTX BBN Technologies is one of RTX’s premier research and development centers providing advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. Our diverse research portfolio combines the best technologies to deliver innovative, custom solutions with real-world benefit.
Role Overview: At RTX BBN Technologies, we develop new science by applying radical cross-disciplinary techniques to prototype systems in order to prove concept viability. This is especially evident in our Physical Systems and Sciences group, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where scientists and engineers anticipate the future in both very large and very small-scale scientific systems that often need to survive challenging operational environments. We are seeking an experienced engineer with research interests in signal processing, sensing, and control systems design / implementation to join our Physical Sciences and Systems group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Our world-class team works with a broad range of Government agencies to solve problems that are both technically challenging and have a real operational impact.
Work Location: Onsite - Cambridge, MA - Relocation package is available for qualified candidates.
Responsibilities
- Developing structural dynamic and acoustic models and related signal processing schemes
- Performing data analysis, including spectral processing and transfer function analysis, as well as data-driven simulations
- Developing control systems and architectures to affect performance of physical systems
- Supporting real time implementation and evaluation of your designs in realistic mission scenarios
- Developing sophisticated detection and classification algorithms against state-of-the-art threats
- Developing prototype proof-of-concept systems to address our client’s most challenging problems
- Plan/direct/coordinate tasks or small projects