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Are you a postdoctoral scholar looking to begin your professional career in a world renown laboratory? Do you want to lead your own post-doctoral research project in applied physics? Then we’re looking for someone like you! The APL offers a rigorous and rewarding postdoctoral fellowship with our SEED (Science and Engineering Enrichment & Development) Program.
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Join the APL-UW Communications and Information Services team! We are looking for a creative, skilled website developer who can bridge the arts of design and software engineering. The incumbent will work with a team of graphic designers, content creators, videographers, and software engineers, and together, the team is charged with recasting the Laboratory’s public website to be as engaging, dynamic, and impactful as the people and research programs of APL-UW.
The Electronics and Photonics Systems (EPS) department delivers novel solutions to important defense problems. We are looking for an Electronics Tech to build advanced electrical/mechanical systems that are used in cutting-edge projects and deployed at sea. You will work as part of a team of engineers, creating wire harnesses, assembling mechanical chassis, and assembling computer motherboard-based systems. Your work will include testing, troubleshooting, and documenting the built systems, managing team schedules, developing multi-step system-wide maintenance plans, procuring supplies, and keeping asset and inventory records accurate and current.
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.
The Electronic & Photonic Systems Department of APL-UW is hiring a Principal Mechanical Engineer to work on cutting-edge applied ocean projects for a diverse set of customers and applications. The successful candidate will be part of an integrated engineering team that designs, builds, installs, operates, and maintains complex electrical/mechanical systems to solve challenging problems in novel ways. The incumbent hired will be responsible for the mechanical design, testing, and production of highly integrated ocean instrumentation packages. This position will be responsible for analyzing requirements, presenting material at formal design reviews, and documenting designed systems.
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.
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The Environmental and Information Systems (EIS) Department is recruiting for a full-time Signal Processor / Software Engineer to join their team. As an integral member of the signal processing group within EIS, the incumbent will support and develop complex specialty software for engineering research programs, and be primarily engaged in the development, both independently and as a part of a dynamic team, of complex software for detection, classification, localization, and tracking of targets in sonar applications, and sensor processing for autonomous systems.
See yourself at APL as a full-time Signal Processor / Software Engineer! As a valuable team member of the Environmental and Information Systems (EIS) Department, the incumbent will develop complex specialty software for engineering research programs, with a focus on detection, classification, localization, and tracking of targets in sonar applications, and senior processing for autonomous systems.
The Applied Physics Laboratory’s Information Technology (IT) team is seeking several full-time professionals who are proficient in executing both system and network administration tasks. Primary expertise in either Windows or Linux operating systems is required, including working knowledge of the other OS, and/or working knowledge of macOS. The incumbent will execute both system and network administration tasks in multiple networked enclaves. For itemized IT enhancement projects, the incumbent will provide support to project technical leads, including executing a wide range of tasking to support APL’s IT enterprise, to include system and network administration of infrastructure hardware and software, as well as aiding endpoint users with system provisioning and trouble shooting.