Senior MEMS IMU Engineer - Thermal & System Validation

HRL Laboratories, LLC; Malibu (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K match

Gym facilities

Job summary

HRL Laboratories, LLC is seeking a senior MEMS IMU engineering leader to drive thermal and mechanical design activities for MEMS IMU development. You will conduct finite element simulations, lead end-to-end evaluation, and mature hardware and firmware through prototyping to production.

The role requires extensive experience in inertial sensors, test automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure robust design verification and transition to low-rate production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field.
• 10+ years hands-on experience owning sensor development and digital signal processing.
• 6+ years’ experience managing production and test documentation and requirements validation.
• Strong understanding of inertial sensor performance and filtering/compensation.
• Experience with IMU test equipment and test automation/interfaces.
• Proficiency with COMSOL or other FEA tools and MATLAB/Python.
• Knowledge of software best practices including Git, CI/CD, unit/integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead thermal and mechanical design activities of the MEMS IMU development and perform design/fab iterations to confirm models.
• Lead end-to-end IMU evaluation and characterization tasks for prototyping, product development, and sustainment.
• Define and execute characterization strategies across environmental, dynamic, and operational conditions with hands-on test setups.
• Analyze performance data, identify drivers, validate models, and investigate anomalies and firmware effects.
• Drive maturation activities, including hardware/firmware debug, failure analysis, and proto improvement.
• Develop lab infrastructure and scripts for evaluation/validation; build automation in Python/MATLAB/Simulink.
• Lead system-level validation with test plans, pass/fail criteria, and reproducible results.

Skills

Sensor development

Digital signal processing

Hardware debugging

Test automation

Version control

CI/CD workflows

Education

Bachelor's / Master's / Ph.D. in a relevant field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

LabVIEW

COMSOL

Git

Altium Designer

Xilinx Vivado

Job description

HRL Laboratories, LLC is seeking a senior MEMS IMU engineering leader to drive thermal and mechanical design activities for MEMS IMU development. You will conduct finite element simulations, lead end-to-end evaluation, and mature hardware and firmware through prototyping to production.

The role requires extensive experience in inertial sensors, test automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure robust design verification and transition to low-rate production.