CAREERS

AimLock is growing and we want extraordinary individuals to grow with us.

Research Engineer

  • Engineering
  • Littleton
  • Full-Time

The Research Engineer will support the R&D group by solving multi-disciplinary design problems related to new missions, new materials, and new product development. As an integral part of a cross functional team working on multi-disciplinary research and development projects, the Research Engineer will be focused on building Autonomous Systems. They will design, build, and deliver complex solutions that require diverse expertise across autonomous or remotely controlled machines which can perform sensing, understanding, and useful actions in unknown and unstructured environments. This individual must demonstrate innovation, an understanding of the fundamentals of engineering, an ability to learn, and out-of-the-box thinking and creativity.

Salary Range: $110k/yr to $140k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with R&D Director to assess opportunities and write proposals for prospective government and academic partnerships
  • Develop multi-disciplinary expertise to build systems defined by autonomous or remotely controlled machines which can perform sensing, understanding, and useful actions in unknown and unstructured environments
  • Identify, down select, and cultivate technological advancements that benefit end-user missions and meet company needs
  • Collaborate and coordinate across the organization to execute programs, work through technical challenges, deliver products, support customer requirements, and identify areas of improvement
  • Oversee technical planning and presentations for customer demonstrations
  • Interface between software developers, controls developers, hardware technicians, test engineers, and management team
  • Monitor technical progress, requirements, budget, schedule, deliverables, and risks as well as review recommendations for change with program management
  • Develop product roadmaps, including incorporation of technologies, working with internal and external customers to understand how your product integrates to meet current and future mission needs
  • Interface between software developers, controls developers, hardware technicians, test engineers, and management team
  • Monitor technical progress, requirements, budget, schedule, deliverables, and risks as well as review recommendations for change with program management
  • Develop product roadmaps, including incorporation of technologies, working with internal and external customers to understand how your product integrates to meet current and future mission needs

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
  • Experience developing control systems for robotics or weapons systems, including manipulators, electromechanical systems, trajectory planning, motion control, servo tuning algorithms, load analysis, signal processing, dynamic model development, simulations in MATLAB/Simulink, and implementation of software on real-time systems or experience developing weapon systems
  • Expertise in Government grant/contract proposal content generation
  • Strong ability to understand complex tasks and be responsive to customer need
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder)
  • Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
  • Critical thinker and practical problem solver
  • Agile and highly motivated by meaningful patriotic missions for technology applications
  • Excellent organizational and time-management skills – Ability to work directly on technical details while also planning at the strategic level

Desired Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications:

  • Experience with development of perception, planning, navigation, sensor fusion for localization and mapping, machine learning, and autonomy systems such as pinpoint and safe landing, space rendezvous, formation flying, precision pointing, autonomous initiation and environmental assessment, machine learning, and related behavior
  • Experience and knowledge of multi-robot architecture and behavior design
  • Experience and knowledge of project management systems
  • Defense industry experience; especially in the R&D realm
  • Previous Weapons Station experience

Physical Demands

  • Work is performed in an office, laboratory, or machine shop environment
  • Travel and local commute between AimLock offices and remote test sites, and other possible non-AimLock locations may be required
  • We are a small team of experts. When necessary, we will approach deliverables with all hands-on deck regardless of title or position 
  • Must be able to remain in a stationary position for more than 75% of the time
  • Must be able to travel approximately 10% for government and industry meetings
  • Must be able to occasionally move about inside the office to access equipment and office machinery
  • Must be able to regularly lift and /or move up to 5-pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
  • Must be able to position oneself to move in a manner required to perform the daily work associated with this role
  • Must be able to operate standard office productivity machinery and equipment including a phone, computer, mouse and keyboard, photocopy machine, scanner, and e-fax
  • Daily work environment and noise level is that of a standard office
  • Occasionally you may experience, or be in the vicinity of, outdoor weather conditions at a field test site, although basic shelter from the elements is provided it is not constant, based on the scope of tasks being performed
  • Occasionally you may experience, or be in the vicinity of, a noise level consistent with a warehouse work environment

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