R&D Engineer - Signal Processing

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. No job title heading. No Job ID. No application instructions. No EEO etc. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - About the role: description of mission, location, etc. - Responsibilities: bullet list of tasks: "Design and analyze the performance of signal processing algorithms...", "Support the implementation, integration and testing of software...", "Collaborate with teams...", "Document work through reports and presentations...", "Plan and execute programs advancing signal processing techniques...", "Additional responsibilities for higher-level positions include: Investigate and evaluate applicability of theories and practices...", "Direct and/or participate in major proposal preparation and presentation." - Requirements: maybe "Required Skills/Experience areas include:" repeated. Also "Minimum Education, Work Experience & Required Certifications" with three levels. - Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Skills/Experience areas include:" and "Current eligibility for access to classified information..." etc. - Skills: maybe list of technical skills: algorithm development, beamforming, filtering, detection, classification, localization, tracking, machine learning, MATLAB, Python, C++, etc. - Benefits: described: salary range, benefits package, medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, 75% tuition discount. - Pay: salary range $121,704.00 - $265,704.00. - Schedule: not mentioned. So we should not include Schedule section. Also location: fully on-site State College, PA. Could be part of About the role. We must not repeat headings with filler. Ensure we include only sections with content. We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like "ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply." etc. We must not include boilerplate like "Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed..." etc. That's not substantive? It's about remote work; maybe we can drop as it's not specific to role? It's a notice. Probably drop. Also "Notice regarding employment at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL): Employees must be eligible to obtain a government security clearance, participate in the ARL drug testing program, and comply with electronic and physical monitoring requirements applicable to federal contractors." That's substantive? It's a requirement maybe. Could be part of Requirements or Qualifications. It's about clearance eligibility. We'll include under Requirements or Qualifications. Also "You must be a U.S. citizen to apply." That's a requirement. Also "Background checks/clearances" etc. Might be part of Requirements. We need to avoid duplication: there are repeated Required Skills/Experience areas include: two identical blocks. We'll combine. Let's extract sections. **About the role**: - Position: Signal Processing Engineer, Guidance and Control Technologies (GCT) Division at Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University. - Location: fully on-site in State College, PA. - Mission: develop processing approaches for sensor data associated with guidance and control of underwater vehicles and platforms. - Applications: detection, classification, localization and tracking for antisubmarine warfare, underwater acoustic communications, coordinated operations of multiple UUVs. - Department serves as hub for development of processing algorithms and analyses of sensor data. - ARL is authorized DoD SkillBridge partner, welcomes transitioning military members. **Responsibilities**: - Design and analyze the performance of signal processing algorithms in support of autonomous underwater vehicle guidance and control. - Support the implementation, integration and testing of software to demonstrate the performance of signal processing approaches. - Collaborate with teams of real-time software and hardware/test vehicle colleagues. - Document work through reports and presentations to program colleagues and sponsors. - Plan and execute programs advancing signal processing techniques associated with autonomous capabilities for current and future applications. - Additional responsibilities for higher-level positions: - Investigate and evaluate applicability of theories and practices to the development of guidance and control systems. - Direct and/or participate in major proposal preparation and presentation. **Requirements** (maybe combine required skills/experience and clearance etc): - Required Skills/Experience areas include: - Algorithm development and analysis spanning object detection, classification, localization and tracking, data fusion and/or autonomous decision-making. - Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills demonstrated through successful proposal writing, program reports and/or presentations. - Willingness and ability to travel to represent ongoing programs with sponsors and support test events. - Technology development involving beamforming, filtering, detection, classification, localization, tracking and machine learning as applied to underwater and other applications. - (duplicate) same as above; we can just list once. - Minimum Education, Work Experience & Required Certifications (depending on level): - If filled as R&D Engineer - Signal Processing (ARL) - Principal Professional: Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science, 19+ years of relevant experience, No required certifications. - If filled as Advanced Professional: Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science, 5+ years of relevant experience. - If filled as Senior Professional: Bachelor's Degree - Engineering or Science, 14+ years of relevant experience. - Must be eligible to obtain a government security clearance, participate in ARL drug testing program, comply with electronic and physical monitoring requirements for federal contractors. - Must be a U.S. citizen to apply. - Background check(s) required per University policies. **Qualifications** (Preferred): - Preferred Skills/Experience areas include: - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or Data Science. - Ability to advance signal processing and autonomy concepts from research to application through design, integration, and test phases. - Collaboration within multi-disciplinary teams for developing and implementing guidance and control functionality. - Software design using MATLAB, Python, and/or C++. - Current eligibility for access to classified information at the Secret level or higher and may be subject to a government background investigation to upgrade clearance eligibility, if required. **Skills** (maybe technical skills list): - Algorithm development and analysis (object detection, classification, localization, tracking, data fusion, autonomous decision-making). - Beamforming, filtering, detection, classification, localization, tracking, machine learning. - MATLAB, Python, C++. - Proposal writing, program reports, presentations. - Travel ability. But we already have skills in Requirements/Qualifications. Might be redundant. However we need to include a Skills section only if there is real specific content not covered elsewhere. The posting includes "Required Skills/Experience areas include:" and "Preferred Skills/Experience areas include:" which are essentially skills. Could treat them as Skills section. But we already have Requirements and Qualifications sections. The instruction says to use headings for sections like Skills, Benefits, Pay, etc. We can decide to put the skill lists under Skills section, and keep Requirements for experience/education, Qualifications for preferred qualifications. However the posting lumps required skills under "Required Skills/Experience areas include:" which could be considered Requirements. But we also have Minimum Education etc. Might be better to have: - About the role - Responsibilities - Requirements (education/experience, clearance, citizenship) - Skills (required skills/Experience areas) - Qualifications (preferred skills/Experience areas, classified eligibility) - Benefits - Pay We must not duplicate content. We need to ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's decide to put required skills under Skills, and required experience/education under Requirements. Preferred skills under Qualifications. Check if any content left out: The "Additional responsibilities for higher-level positions" we included under Responsibilities. Good. The "ARL’s purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions..." maybe part of About the role. The "FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on ARL, visit our website at www.arl.psu.edu." Could be part of About the role but maybe not essential; it's a link. Could include as a sentence. The "Background Checks/Clearances" section we incorporated. The "Salary & Benefits" section we have Pay and Benefits. The "CAMPUS SECURITY CRIME STATISTICS" etc is boilerplate; drop. The "EEO IS THE LAW" drop. Now produce HTML. We need to use

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  Salary range: $121,704.00 - $265,704.00.

  We need to ensure we don't include empty sections. Now write content. About the role prose: combine mission, location, ARL SkillBridge, purpose. Let's write:

  The Signal Processing Engineer position is part of the Guidance and Control Technologies (GCT) Division at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) of Penn State University, located fully on‑site in State College, PA. The department’s mission is to develop processing approaches for sensor data used in the guidance and control of underwater vehicles and platforms, including applications such as detection, classification, localization and tracking for antisubmarine warfare, underwater acoustic communications, and coordinated operations of multiple unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). ARL serves as a hub for the development of signal processing algorithms and analysis of sensor data to support these applications. ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes transitioning military members to apply. ARL’s purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific, engineering, and technology problems in support of the Navy, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community.

  That seems good. Responsibilities list: - Design and analyze the performance of signal processing algorithms in support of autonomous underwater vehicle guidance and control. - Support the implementation, integration and testing of software to demonstrate the performance of signal processing approaches. - Collaborate with teams of real‑time software and hardware/test vehicle colleagues. - Document work through reports and presentations to program colleagues and sponsors. - Plan and execute programs advancing signal processing techniques associated with autonomous capabilities for current and future applications. - Investigate and evaluate applicability of theories and practices to the development of guidance and control systems (higher‑level positions). - Direct and/or participate in major proposal preparation and presentation (higher‑level positions). We could combine the last two as separate items. Requirements list: - Must be a U.S. citizen to apply. - Must be eligible to obtain a government security clearance, participate in the ARL drug testing program, and comply with electronic and physical monitoring requirements applicable to federal contractors. - Successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. - Education and experience requirements vary by level: - Principal Professional: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science, 19+ years of relevant experience. - Advanced Professional: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science, 5+ years of relevant experience. - Senior Professional: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science, 14+ years of relevant experience. - No required certifications for any of the above levels. We could also include that required certifications: None. Skills list (required skills/experience areas): - Algorithm development and analysis spanning object detection, classification, localization and tracking, data fusion and/or autonomous decision‑making. - Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills demonstrated through successful proposal writing, program reports and/or presentations. - Willingness and ability to travel to represent ongoing programs with sponsors and support test events. - Technology development