Jobs at Draper

Designs, simulates, lays out, verifies, and tests analog and power electronics, including power conversion, battery management, and precision instrumentation circuits. Develops technical specifications, analyzes hardware configurations, supports product life-cycle activities, and collaborates with project teams and development partners. Contributes to technical reports, communicates project status and risks, and helps resolve engineering issues. Requires a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field, proficiency with schematic capture, PCB layout, SPICE or comparable simulation tools, and MATLAB or Simulink.

Develop and manage complex systems through product development, integration, testing, production transition, and deployment. Lead test architecture and execution, requirements development, compliance cases, test plans, systems upgrades, and technical data packages. Work with strategic sensors, MEMS, inertial navigation systems, fault-tolerant computing, and test equipment. Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams while analyzing system data, supporting requirements traceability, and communicating technical findings to project leadership.

Define, analyze, and verify system and subsystem requirements using systems engineering, MBSE, and digital engineering methods. Develop mission needs, use cases, functional models, requirement flow-downs, performance trades, verification strategies, and test designs. Lead multidisciplinary teams, customer requirements efforts, technical planning, risk management, and formal assessments. Serve as a systems engineering subject-matter expert, mentor engineers, develop mitigation strategies, and improve enterprise capabilities.

Lead systems integration and test engineering for laboratory operations, including test-cell risk mitigation, troubleshooting, maintenance planning, inventory and obsolescence tracking, facility upgrades, vendor coordination, and capital planning. Develop procedures and technical documentation, coordinate lab activities across programs, support acquisitions and certifications, present technical information, and mentor less experienced engineers. The role requires on-site support in Cambridge, Massachusetts four to five days per week.

Creates and documents moderate to highly complex printed wiring board layouts from schematics and engineering inputs. Responsibilities include constraint editing, manufacturability coordination with DFM engineers, applying fabrication criteria, supporting electrical hardware design, resolving conflicting requirements, and communicating project status. The role requires advanced packaging layout experience, knowledge of PWB fabrication and assembly, and proficiency with specialized CAD and drafting tools.

Designs, models, and tests RF and communications systems; uses laboratory instrumentation for validation and troubleshooting; contributes to technical reports; identifies and communicates technical challenges; collaborates with multidisciplinary teams.

Leads software test development, algorithm design, system architecture, requirements analysis, technical documentation, and risk mitigation for mission-oriented projects. The role independently solves complex customer problems, communicates with stakeholders, serves as a subject matter expert, and leads a multidisciplinary engineering team through design, testing, deployment, and delivery in an Agile environment.

The engineer will conceptualize and analyze GN&C systems, develop test plans, evaluate performance, and lead system integration tasks. Collaboration and mentorship are crucial.

Provides production support for ruggedized miniature electromechanical systems by developing and optimizing assembly processes, troubleshooting tools and process issues, performing root cause analysis, and monitoring production outputs. Creates CAD concepts, supports testing and manufacturing standards, maintains technical documentation, assists with training, and communicates design and production concerns to project leadership.

Design and simulate advanced digital ASICs from architecture and RTL through synthesis, optimizing performance, power, and cost. Lead complex chip designs, evaluate algorithm feasibility, guide physical layout and design-for-test activities, and contribute to system-level design and proposals. Develop specifications, solve ambiguous technical problems, mentor engineers, and lead multidisciplinary teams. The role requires advanced semiconductor design expertise, successful tape-out experience, and an active U.S. Secret clearance with onsite work in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Senior SMT Manufacturing Engineer responsible for designing and optimizing SMT and mixed-technology assembly processes from concept through production. Duties include CAD-based product concepts, reflow profile development, stencil and tooling design, automation programming, manufacturing oversight, testing, quantitative process improvements, technical risk mitigation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and supports high-reliability, mission-critical hardware programs.

Designs, verifies, tests, and documents digital ASICs and front-end systems. Responsibilities include chip architecture, HDL development, simulation, synthesis, hardware optimization, requirements development, technical problem solving, system-level design, proposal support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires an active U.S. Secret clearance and may involve leading small technical teams and managing complex ASIC design efforts.

Design and develop ruggedized electro-mechanical systems through concept exploration, trade studies, prototyping, testing, and delivery. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, produce technical reports, and ensure designs meet harsh-environment and performance requirements.

Manages Draper's treasury function, including investment portfolios, corporate insurance, cash flow forecasting, liquidity, debt administration, risk management, and regulatory reporting. Supervises a Treasury Analyst, coordinates with financial institutions and external providers, supports audits and retirement plans, maintains treasury procedures, and presents financial information to the Board's Finance Committee. Requires advanced financial modeling, corporate finance expertise, strong analytical and communication skills, and cross-functional leadership.

Plans, executes, and manages system integration and testing from test concept development through certification. Responsibilities include functional simulation, subsystem and system integration, verification and validation, performance evaluation, acceptance testing, requirements traceability, test infrastructure automation, and collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

The Senior Software Autonomy Engineer will design, develop, and evaluate autonomous behaviors for heterogeneous teams of vehicles, focusing on cutting-edge defense systems.

Develops verification strategies, plans, UVM agents, and block- and chip-level testbench environments for FPGA and ASIC designs. Responsibilities include constrained-random testing, formal analysis, coverage closure, SystemVerilog and SVA development, simulation, code reviews, and collaboration with RTL designers. The role also supports complex digital and mixed-signal hardware platforms involving security, cryptography, signal processing, navigation, and communications.

Leads a 500-person systems engineering directorate covering concept development, trades analysis, architectures, requirements, integration, testing, validation, and verification. Establishes technical vision, organizational strategy, staffing plans, budgets, performance standards, and continuous improvement initiatives. Partners with engineering and program leadership, manages customer and contract relationships, develops business opportunities, and advances digital engineering and continuous integration practices. The role requires extensive engineering leadership, DoD program execution experience, government acquisition knowledge, and frequent travel.

Manages security activities for designated program offices, integrating security into business capture, proposals, and program execution. Oversees NISP activities, classified-program compliance, contractual security documentation, security classification guides, secure-area administration, employee training, and regulatory procedures. Coordinates with government agencies, customers, suppliers, leadership, program teams, and business development to interpret requirements, resolve compliance issues, and tailor security programs to organizational needs.

Leads program planning and scheduling teams, develops and maintains integrated master schedules, and ensures compliance with government customer requirements. The role manages resource-loaded schedules, earned value and cost-schedule integration, performance analysis, estimates at completion, and master phasing schedules. It coordinates planning across finance, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, operations, and quality, while implementing program management processes and tools. The position requires substantial program scheduling experience and an active Secret clearance.