Senior Astronomical Instrumentation Engineer

Draper

Cambridge (MA)

On-site

USD 75,000 - 220,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Draper, a nonprofit R&D leader in Cambridge, MA, seeks a scientist/engineer with deep astronomy/optics experience to lead large-scale instrumentation programs and mentor teams. The role focuses on hardware instrument design, prototyping, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across engineering and science to meet ambitious performance goals.

Candidates should have 15+ years in hardware instrument engineering, strong proposal and leadership skills, and ability to learn quickly on the job.

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Applied Physics, Electrical or Computer Engineering; Masters or PhD preferred.
Requires 15+ years of Hardware Instrument Engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Independently formulate hardware instrument solutions to complex problems with a deep understanding of customer priorities.
Help customers shape their needs and develop hardware instrument requirements for programs that solve technical problems.
Subject matter expert in hardware instrument device development with broad knowledge across related disciplines.
Lead large, technically diverse Hardware Instrument projects.
Design experiments and hardware to prove viable concepts.
Collaborate with engineers to develop prototype and production hardware.
Integrate precision instruments into larger systems to meet performance metrics.
Draft and present technical documents, reports, and testing results.
Perform other duties as assigned.