Undersea Propulsion & Power Systems Engineer

Penn State University; Ferguson Township (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn State University, located in State College, PA, seeks experienced Electric Propulsion and Power Systems (EPPS) Engineers to join the ARL’s EPCS Department in the Undersea Systems Office. You will lead multidisciplinary teams to design, document, integrate, and test high‑power propulsion and vehicle power systems for undersea platforms, with both lab and field testing for DoD customers.

ARL is a DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes transitioning military members.

Qualifications

• Experience in electric propulsion and power systems for complex vehicles.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams through full lifecycle design.
• Willingness to perform laboratory and field testing and travel to remote locations.

Responsibilities

• Participate in full project life cycle design of electric/hybrid propulsion systems.
• Oversee requirements identification, design reviews, and documentation packages.
• Execute detailed design concepts, analyses, and test plans for EPPS subsystems.
• Test subsystems using hardware-in-the-loop methods and lab equipment.
• Capture hardware designs with CAD tools and support system integration.
• Participate in system integration exercises and verification stages.
• Support field testing of prototype EPPS to validate performance.

Skills

Power systems

Motor drives

Control theory

Circuit design

Team leadership

Hands-on electronics

Tools

Altium Design Suite

Siemens NX

SolidWorks

LabVIEW

MATLAB/Simulink

RT-LAB

Job description

Penn State University, located in State College, PA, seeks experienced Electric Propulsion and Power Systems (EPPS) Engineers to join the ARL’s EPCS Department in the Undersea Systems Office. You will lead multidisciplinary teams to design, document, integrate, and test high‑power propulsion and vehicle power systems for undersea platforms, with both lab and field testing for DoD customers.

ARL is a DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes transitioning military members.