ELECTRICAL ENGINEER 2

Req #:	212365
Department:	APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
Job Location:	Seattle Campus
Posting Date:	09/08/2022
Closing Info:	Closes On 09/15/2022
Salary:	Salary and benefits are competitive. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Limited Recruitment:	Open to Department employees only If you are a UW employee and would like to be considered for this position, please login to your UW employee profile to apply.
Shift:	First Shift
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The Environmental and Information Systems team at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington has an outstanding opportunity for Electrical Engineer 2 to join their team.

The Applied Physics Laboratory is a research unit at the University of Washington. Our research expertise is in ocean physics and engineering, ocean and medical acoustics, polar science, environmental remote sensing, and signal processing. We conduct research and development that is sponsored by a variety of federal and state agencies, and take great pride in our long-standing status as a US Navy-designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). Our work takes place not only on the University of Washington campus and medical centers, but in field locations around the world at sea, in the air, and on polar ice caps. We apply rigorous scientific inquiry and engineering excellence in pursuit of solutions to important problems for the good of our region, nation, and world.

Diversity is a core value at University of Washington and the Applied Physics Laboratory shares this commitment. We are focused on building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable research environment for all students, staff, and collaborators. We believe every member on our team enriches our community by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.

The Electrical Engineer 2 will support research development and testing of underwater acoustic systems, increasing DoD capabilities in underwater vehicle operations. Specifically, the work will involve developing tools and techniques for the simulation and optimization of acoustic transducer designs, and design of software, circuits, components and embedded systems to prototype concepts.

The successful applicant will be able to apply data processing knowledge and field programmable gate array (FPGA programming) skill to create and process complex waveforms in an embedded device. The position also provides electrical, electronic and software support for sensor integration onto test platforms. Additional responsibilities include creating user controls and information displays for prototype systems or mixed vendor systems as well as test system design and programming for automated circuit board or sub-assembly testing.

The position may be required to accompany system field testing and deployments, working outdoors under occasionally challenging conditions, such as small boat operations. This role will also be expected to adhere to accepted best coding practices and conventions and be versed in interface documentation techniques.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Research Design and Simulation:

Responsible for the design and simulation of underwater or ultrasonic transducers and arrays.

Performs simulation of system operations in an underwater acoustic environment.

Develop Matlab simulations of beam patterns and beam forming.

Research Coding and Fabrication:

Responsible for front-end application and interface development in Matlab and Python.

Supports embedded firmware for sensor development and integration.

Responsible for circuit board design, fabrication and testing.

Field Research and Testing:

Deploys and operates prototypes and 3rd party sensors working from docks and boats.

Collects high quality research data sets for system evaluation.

Analysis and Documentation:

Creates transducer optimization tools and methods.

Analyzes test data, locates sources of self-noise.

Support:

Performs electrical and software support for sensor integration and testing.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or other technical field and software development experience AND 2 years of experience.

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

The person hired into position must be a U.S. citizen and successfully obtain and continue to maintain a Department of Defense (DOD) Personnel Security Clearance. The process for obtaining a DOD Security Clearance can be view using the following links: Processing Applicants (dcsa.mil) or General Investigations and Clearance Processes (dcsa.mil)

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

US Citizenship.

Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.

Experience simulating and optimizing acoustic transducer designs.

Experience in software development including FPGA programming for complex waveform generation and/or processing.

Electrical Engineering analysis, design and test.

Experience with PCB Layout tools, Verilog, Matlab, Solidworks, MS Office, Python numpy, PyQt and Linux.

Ability and willingness to participate in fieldwork, possibly on small boats or large research ships.

Able to work both independently and tightly coupled with the team in an R&D environment. The candidate must have good problem solving/troubleshooting skills and be able to apply them in a laboratory or field environment.

Good written communication skills, able to generate concise informative reports.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Automated test system design and programming.

Electrical/Electronic propulsion systems for vehicles.

Digital Signal Processing implemented in FPGA architectures.

Complex electronic assembly experience, surface mount soldering and hand tool use.

Cuda GPU support.

Embedded programming experience.

Realtime system programming experience.

Electronics troubleshooting and test.

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