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Draper is seeking a Manager of Time Charging Compliance, reporting directly the Chief Financial Officer. This role is instrumental in overseeing and optimizing Draper’s charging practices and ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, internal policies and procedures. This is a crucial role for optimizing efficiency and safeguarding against legal and regulatory risks related to charging practices as well as ensuring ethical standards and compliant business operations.   Responsibilities:   • Serve as a strategic business partner to Draper leadership, compile and analyze data related to charging and provide insights to...

As a Product Data Integrity Group Leader, you will:    - Manage administrative details and career development for group members - Maintain cognizance of group member activity and address issues - Convey relevant information from management to group members - Conduct performance evaluations of group members - Maintain awareness of staffing...

The Product assurance Group Leader will lead a multi-disciplinary group that is responsible for ensuring the integrity of Draper’s deliverable products.  The Group Leader is the first-level of engineering management and requires the ability to apply sound engineering and management principles for technical hands-on leadership of a group of approximately 18 technical staff with expertise in product assurance including calibration and metrology.   Specific responsibilities include:...

Draper’s Digital Design Team is seeking a motivated and experienced Senior UVM Digital Verification Engineer to tackle novel verification challenges in FPGAs and ASICs. In this role, you will apply modern verification strategies to complex digital and mixed-signal designs in the areas of embedded security, cryptography, signal and image processing, navigation and communications.   You will develop verification approaches, author and execute verification plans, and use formal analysis tools. You will work in multi-disciplinary teams with opportunities to learn, grow and...

Draper’s Digital Design Team is seeking a motivated and experienced Principal UVM Digital Verification Engineer to tackle novel verification challenges in FPGAs and ASICs. In this role, you will apply modern verification strategies to complex digital and mixed-signal designs in the areas of embedded security, cryptography, signal and image processing, navigation and communications.   You will develop verification approaches, author and execute verification plans, and use formal analysis tools. While leading verification teams, you will define the test-bench architecture...

- You will join a small, growing team of Program Configuration Managers responsible for formal Configuration/Change Management (CM) activities on various Draper research, development, and production programs with prominent customers such as the Navy, Air Force, NASA, commercial, bio-medical, and others. - You will apply your prior experience towards developing, documenting, and executing a new, modernized strategy for conducting formal Configuration/Change Management activities in a Model-Based Systems Engineering environment for a program concerned with redesigning and producing a significant Government guidance system...

Contract Data Management Analyst Draper has an exciting, new opportunity for a Data Management Contract Analyst.  As a Data Management Contract Analyst, you will help the company achieve on commitments by delivering customer requirements on time. In this role, you will be responsible for inputting, monitoring, and managing deliverables within Draper’s PLM system. The types of deliverables may include, but are not limited to, various types of reports, synopsis of the results of analyses or assessments, software, hardware, etc.

In this position you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams designing and developing power system architectures and requirements for a wide array of applications.  These applications include miniature power conversion and management circuitry, distributed power architectures, radiation hardened designs, novel battery management circuitry, small motor controllers, switched-mode power conversion and precision feedback systems.  As a Principal Member of the Analog, & Power Electronics Group you will help shape hardware architectures and support electronics development activities by applying sound engineering and project management...

In this position you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams designing, developing, and verifying high reliability digital electronics for use in a wide array of applications. These applications include processor boards, FPGA and SOC boards, memory applications including DDR and high speed I/O. As a senior member of the Harsh Environments Electronics Group you will help shape digital hardware architectures and lead electronics development activities by applying sound engineering and project management principles.

In this position you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams designing, developing, and verifying electronics for state-of-the-art sensors and actuators used in a wide array of applications. These projects are executed with a heavy emphasis on high performance, low size, weight, and power consumption. As a senior member of the Instrumentation, Electronics Group you will help shape hardware architectures and lead electronics development activities by applying sound engineering and project management principles.

We are seeking an enthusiastic entry-level electrical and electronics design engineer for the embedded electronics group within the hardware directorate.  Employees in the embedded electronics group tend to focus on electronic hardware design, but also have enough understanding of software and firmware in order to develop simple test code and proper hardware interfaces.  Design projects typically last 12 to 18 months.  You may be working on space-based systems, missile programs, or miniature electronic systems.  Strong fundamentals and a desire to learn are critical in this position.  Over time, you will develop your skills towards designing PCBs and electronics using...

We are seeking a Senior Electrical and Electronics Design Engineer to join the Embedded Electronics group. As a senior member of the technical staff, the candidate will play a critical role in the development of next generation processing, computing and sensor/actuator hardware within the electronics division. Members of the Embedded Electronics group support a variety of multi-disciplinary programs lasting an average of 12 to 18 months each. In addition to working on sponsored programs, group members are also encouraged to develop and participate in internally funded research and development programs. The ideal candidate is someone who works well in multi-functional teams and has recent experience...

Responsibilities: - Standing a fixed post during normal business hours or serving as a roving patrol.  - Checking badges of incoming employees and contractors. - Issuing badges to visitors who have been vetted through Visitor Control; - Ensuring that Lab...

In this role, you will provide essential support for Draper’s critical IT infrastructure, applications, and core services hosted on RedHat Linux systems. You will ensure continuous and optimized operation and provisioning of IT systems, focusing on product and technology areas like bare metal, cloud and virtualized hosts, base operating system, authentication and authorization, and enterprise-level systems management and monitoring. You will respond to and resolve incidents and alerts, fulfill service and change request tickets, and assist in process improvement, documentation, and automation.  This role is on a team approved for partial remote, with the...

Draper is seeking a Production Engineer with experience in electromechanical system design and manufacturing. The product engineer role at Draper is less about a specific “product” and more about providing a system-level perspective that will help mature advanced (often first-of-a-kind) prototype designs with an eye towards manufacturability, assimilability, and reliability (i.e., DFx). The role requires the candidate to support interactions between program subject matter experts and both outside vendors and internal services and help develop plans for how to get from prototype to low-rate production. Experience with vendor management and an understanding of the DOD...

Draper’s Biotechnology Systems business empowers national security through the delivery of innovative solutions in the areas of Biodefense and Biomedical solutions to address the most pressing challenges and hardest problems.  Our mission is to harness the cutting-edge potential of biotechnology to develop advanced solutions that safeguard our nations’ security and enrich people’s lives on behalf of current and future generations.  We are seeking a seasoned leader for the position of Director, Biomedical Systems, within our Biotechnology Systems business, to drive growth and impact...

Draper is seeking a senior aerodynamic/hydrodynamic system analyst to drive the design and development of novel solutions to customer driven problems surrounding ruggedized miniature electro-mechanical systems, systems for harsh environments (e.g. high-g, high temperature, high pressure, high vibration), and robotics and autonomous systems with a focus on aerodynamic/hydrodynamic performance.   Specific responsibilities include: - Perform analytical modeling and computational fluid dynamics analysis of complex electro-mechanical systems from an aerodynamic/hydrodynamic operational performance...

Draper is seeking a Principal aerodynamic/hydrodynamic system analyst to drive the design and development of novel solutions to customer driven problems surrounding ruggedized miniature electro-mechanical systems, systems for harsh environments (e.g. high-g, high temperature, high pressure, high vibration), and robotics and autonomous systems with a focus on aerodynamic/hydrodynamic performance.   Specific responsibilities include: - Perform analytical modeling and computational fluid dynamics analysis of complex electro-mechanical systems from an aerodynamic/hydrodynamic operational...

We are seeking a Principal Electrical and Electronics Design Engineer to join the Embedded Electronics group. As a principal member of the technical staff, the candidate will play a critical role in the development of next generation processing, computing and sensor/actuator hardware within the electronics division. Members of the Embedded Electronics group support a variety of multi-disciplinary programs lasting an average of 12 to 18 months each. In addition to working on sponsored programs, group members are also encouraged to develop and participate in internally funded research and development programs. The ideal candidate is someone who works well in multi-functional teams and has recent experience...

Responsibilities: - Perform subcontract management functions in support of U.S. Government and Commercial Contracts - Solicit subcontractors, supporting various award types and take a lead role on fact finding, proposal analysis and risk assessment with guidance from peers - Manage tactical and strategic aspects of subcontract relationship, which include interface with Program Management, Finance and Contracts. -