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McLean, Virginia · USA job

Engineer or Physicist in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing

Mitre

McLean, Virginia

Job description

Overview

In this entry-level role at MITRE, you contribute to solving PNT challenges (GPS, atomic clocks, inertial guidance) as part of a mission-driven, not-for-profit team. You will model, simulate, and analyze PNT technologies and prototype waveforms or algorithms, while testing hardware in lab and field settings. You join a collaborative environment that values growth, innovation, and public-interest impact, with a clear path for development in a leading PNT program.

Compensation / Benefits
  • competitive benefits
  • exceptional professional development opportunities
  • hybrid on-site work arrangement
Responsibilities
  • Modeling, simulation, and analysis of PNT technologies
  • Testing of PNT technologies and data analysis of experimental results
  • Play a key technical role on one or more projects within MITRE's PNT work program
Key requirements
  • Less than 1 year of related experience or equivalent
  • Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or similar
  • Experience with MATLAB, Python, C++, or other modeling and data analysis software tools
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret security clearance
  • US Citizenship required for security clearance
  • Strong technical background in PNT-related topics (detection/estimation theory, waveform design, modulation theory, information theory, stochastic processes, propagation, channel estimation/equalization, receiver design, interference cancellation, algorithm development, GNC)
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • C++
  • data analysis
  • waveform design
  • modulation theory

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