Use your fabrication skills to make an idea come to life! At APL-UW, the Fabrication Engineer is responsible for interpreting, analyzing, and troubleshooting engineering designs, planning and executing the production process, and assembling and testing the specialized — and often prototypical – parts that are critical to our oceanographic, marine renewable energy, and acoustic research. Your experience, creativity, and ingenuity are valuable contributions to the Fabrication Engineer team, and to the greater Laboratory.
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Careers at APL-UW span across research and engineering, field and technical roles, software, principal investigators, business operations and administration, postdocs, internships, and more.
Every member of the Applied Physics Laboratory, from brand-new team members to long-timers celebrating decades of work at the lab, is critical to the development of cutting-edge, impactful research. And our everyday work is all the more interesting because of it! Apply now for a role where your skills make a difference.
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Join the Security Team at APL-UW! The security team welcomes applicants for a Security Specialist. The core areas of responsibility for the position include administration of APL’s industrial security program, day-to-day physical security practices, personnel security clearance administration, and COMSEC accounting maintenance. If you are diligent and self-motivated security professional and interested in applying your experience to an active and vibrant research environment, this position is for you!
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Join the Security Team at APL-UW! The security team welcomes applicants for a Security Specialist. The core areas of responsibility for the position include administration of APL’s industrial security program, day-to-day physical security practices, personnel security clearance administration, and COMSEC accounting maintenance. If you are diligent and self-motivated security professional and interested in applying your experience to an active and vibrant research environment, this position is for you!
Come be a part of research with regional impact! The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) is adding a Grants and Contracts Manager to the research team. Bring your expertise with full-cycle research grant administration to support this complex program that has a long and rich history in the Puget Sounds.
Be a part of a newly created Finance Operations team! The Finance Operations Manager will lead a team of compliance analysts who implement and carry out key financial management products and processes for the Laboratory. You will collaborate with the Assistant Director of Business & Finance on budgetary decisions, long-range planning, and policy-making. You will also work closely with Laboratory leadership to deliver finance and budget support across the organization.
Bring your cybersecurity monitoring skills to bear in our unclassified secure computing enclave! The Cybersecurity Analyst’s primary responsibility is the design and maintenance of APL’s main Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) computing enclave. Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-171 and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will inform your work supporting our experimentation programs, whether they are deployed in a traditional laboratory environment, or out in harsh natural environments around the world.
Are you a Linux pro? Then APL’s IT team has a great opportunity for you to consider! The Applied Physics Laboratory’s Information Technology (IT) team seeks a full-time professional who is proficient in executing both system and network administration tasks. Primary expertise in Linux operating systems is required, and you’ll want strong working knowledge of Windows and/or MacOS. You will contribute as a member of the Applied Physics Laboratory’s Information Technology (IT) team, executing both system and network administration tasks in multiple networked enclaves. For itemized IT enhancement projects, you will provide support to the team’s project technical leads.
Join APL’s Electronic and Photonic Systems Department as a Software Engineer! We have multiple openings available for exceptional talent who possess specialization in either back-end Java development, front-end UI development, and/or signal processing algorithm development. This position will work on all phases of software application development ranging from requirements gathering through final release and life cycle maintenance for major software components, and small projects. In this position, you will lead small project teams of 2-3 software engineers, provide feedback and correcting, and test their work as needed.
See Yourself at APL as a member of the Electronic and Photonic Systems Department! We are seeking several full-time Software Engineers to join the team. This position will work on all phases of software application development ranging from requirements gathering through final release and life cycle maintenance for major software components, and small projects. This position will work closely with the team’s Technical Project Manager but must also operate independently and with other developers.
Join the Environmental and Information Systems Department as an Electrical Engineer. As a technical expert, the Electrical Engineer will assess project feasibility and will plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of the work in a part of a major project or a total project of moderate scope. The incumbent hired will perform work that involves conventional scientific or engineering practice but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of standard materials, and difficult coordination requirements.
Want to learn more about the people in APL’s Environmental and Information Systems Department? This story will introduce you!