Jobs at HRL Laboratories

Develops system-level validation plans, test criteria, documentation, and release-readiness coverage for advanced electronic assemblies and IMUs. Performs hardware assembly, testing, characterization, troubleshooting, and data analysis using electronic test equipment and automation tools. Partners cross-functionally on requirements flow-down, configuration control, engineering changes, prototype preparation, production transition, and external qualification. Reports results to technical teams and management while supporting embedded hardware, firmware, and instrumentation integration.

Designs superconducting component layouts for silicon spin quantum computing using Virtuoso and related CAD tools. Develops layout automation for routing, via placement, ground-plane slotting, and metal or dielectric fill. Applies foundry constraints, RF design principles, and manufacturability requirements while collaborating with process, integration, packaging, and design teams. Troubleshoots DRC/LVS issues, supports simulations and reviews, and documents layout methodologies, automation scripts, and design rules.

Build, integrate, test, operate, and maintain cryogenic and vacuum systems supporting silicon quantum dot technologies. Perform electro-mechanical assembly, troubleshooting, leak checks, maintenance, documentation, and subsystem integration. Use SolidWorks for fixture and tooling design, coordinate system builds, manage equipment and inventory, support procurement, and contribute to laboratory infrastructure and process improvements.

Performs thermal, structural, and dynamic analysis of electro-mechanical systems using nonlinear FEA, thermal modeling, CAD, and simulation tools. Develops and validates models through testing, correlates predictions with measured data, interprets results, and provides design guidance. Supports design reviews, technical documentation, process improvement, proposals, and analysis planning while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Develop and validate thermal and mechanical finite element models for superconducting interposer systems operating at millikelvin to 4 K temperatures. Build CAD geometries, define material models and simulation conditions, analyze stress and deformation, and validate predictions against low-temperature measurements. Collaborate with packaging, process, and device engineering teams on design, manufacturing, reliability, and failure mitigation. Document methodologies and communicate technical findings and recommendations to engineering teams and senior management.

Lead analog and mixed-signal verification for cryogenic CMOS quantum-control circuits. Develop AMS verification strategies, behavioral models, SystemVerilog/UVM environments, assertions, regressions, and coverage methodologies. Perform transistor-level simulations, corner and Monte Carlo analysis, model correlation, DFT verification, silicon bring-up, lab debugging, and measurement validation. Automate workflows with scripting and maintain Git/Jenkins continuous integration. Collaborate across design, modeling, DFT, digital verification, and validation teams from block development through tape-out.

Designs, characterizes, and validates cryogenic mixed-signal electronics for qubit control and readout. Responsibilities include RF/microwave and high-speed digital design, low-temperature measurements, PCB and silicon bring-up, FPGA/ASIC verification, automated laboratory testing, data analysis, debugging, and hardware-firmware co-design. The engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to improve control fidelity, noise performance, reliability, and system robustness in an on-site laboratory environment.

Leads automated cryogenic testing and yield characterization for semiconductor-based spin-qubit devices. Analyzes electrical and statistical measurement data, investigates failures, connects results to fabrication and device design, and develops scalable testing architectures. Builds Python- and SQL-based automation and database tooling, collaborates with materials, device, and process engineering teams, and communicates recommendations through reports and presentations.

Designs and analyzes superconducting and non-superconducting integration components, including packages, connectors, transmission lines, and RF interconnects. Performs RF simulations of cryogenic superconducting structures, evaluates signal behavior and parasitics, and integrates foundry, materials, packaging, and test constraints into manufacturable designs. Collaborates across engineering teams, supports foundry problem-solving and process development, interprets test data, documents methodologies, and communicates technical recommendations to leadership.

Designs, fabricates, integrates, and tests RF and millimeter-wave subsystems for communications, radar, and sensing applications. Responsibilities include electronic modeling and simulation, circuit analysis, customer problem solving, invention disclosures, technical presentations, proposal support, and collaboration with scientists, engineers, program managers, and customers. The role requires familiarity with RF components, FPGAs, DSPs, microcontrollers, programming tools, and electronic test equipment, with travel of approximately 20%.

Design, integrate, and test RF and electromagnetic components and subsystems for communication, radar, and electronic warfare applications. Develop low-level embedded software and test/control software, evaluate circuit boards and PCBs, rapidly prototype with evaluation platforms, and operate RF and digital test equipment. Collaborate with scientists, engineers, customers, and program managers while supporting technical analyses, proposals, invention disclosures, publications, and customer briefings.

Develop and lead embedded control systems for RF subsystems used in communications, radar, and electronic warfare applications. Responsibilities include low-level programming, FPGA and microcontroller development, RF system integration and testing, test automation, technical documentation, customer support, proposal contributions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with scientists, engineers, program managers, and customers. The role requires approximately 20% travel and U.S. citizenship.

Designs, fabricates, integrates, and tests RF and millimeter-wave subsystems for communication, radar, and sensing applications. Collaborates with scientists, engineers, customers, and program managers; performs circuit and integrated-circuit analyses; operates electronic test equipment; develops models and simulations; prepares technical presentations and invention disclosures; supports proposals and customer problem-solving. Requires willingness to travel 20% and U.S. citizenship.

Develops next-generation synthetic aperture radar systems and processing capabilities. Designs and optimizes SAR algorithms for waveform processing, motion compensation, image formation, autofocus, detection, and exploitation. Builds end-to-end radar processing architectures spanning data acquisition, ADC, DSP, and backend pipelines. Analyzes datasets, validates performance, supports customer technical challenges, prepares documentation and presentations, publishes research, contributes to proposals, and participates in testing and integration. Travel may be required for testing, customer engagement, and technical reviews.

Designs, builds, tests, models, and analyzes optical, optoelectronic, and photonic experiments for quantum communications systems. Responsibilities include working with free-space and fiber optics, semiconductor device fabrication, data collection and analysis, process improvement, and troubleshooting complex systems with mechanical and electrical engineering teams.

Develop, integrate, and test software and architectures for radar systems operating from HF to 200+ GHz. Collaborate with scientists and engineers on radar algorithms, embedded systems, system design, and prototypes. Solve customer problems, prepare invention disclosures, publish technical papers, brief customers, support proposals, and help market HRL expertise. The role requires strong software development, systems engineering, technical communication, teamwork, and willingness to travel.

Leads strategic planning, scheduling, execution, and risk management for multidisciplinary sensor and advanced materials R&D projects. Manages resources, staffing, subcontractors, suppliers, financials, proposals, and technical deliverables. Communicates cost, schedule, and technical risks to customers, principal investigators, and leadership while maintaining integrated schedules and performance reports. Recommends execution improvements and dynamically replans projects as constraints and technical results change.

Model and simulate semiconductor and quantum nanodevices using commercial and proprietary TCAD and multiphysics tools. Analyze semiclassical and quantum transport, electrostatics, thermal and stress responses, and collaborate with fabrication and test teams to interpret data, optimize performance, and present technical results.

Develop ML and multimodal AI systems that integrate neurophysiological, behavioral, and sensor data for cognitive state estimation and decision support. Build algorithms and prototypes, apply cognitive science to improve explainability and human-AI collaboration, contribute to proposals/publications, and demonstrate capabilities for mission-driven R&D.

Join a multidisciplinary team to develop metal additive manufacturing processes and materials for aerospace. Operate LPBF metal 3D printers, design and fabricate prototypes, perform materials characterization (XCT, pycnometry, metallography, microscopy), run mechanical tests (tensile, fatigue), coordinate vendor testing, and communicate results in reports and presentations.