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Req #: 228080 Department: APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY Job Location: Seattle Campus Posting Date: 10/31/2024 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Salary: $7,500 - $11,104 per month Other Compensation: Union Position: Yes Shift: First Shift Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here.
Please note that this position has been re-posted. If you have already submitted your application, you need not submit it again, as it has already been received.
As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities, and unique resources in an environment noted for academic excellence, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The Environmental and Information Systems Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington is hiring – See Yourself at APL!
The Environmental and Information Systems Department is seeking a full-time, regular Electrical Engineer to join the team.
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. Work requires a broad knowledge of precedents in the specialty area and a good knowledge of the principles and practices of related specialties.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning:
* Managing multiple or significant projects, while maintaining positive relationships with major funders and sponsors.
Electrical Engineering:
* Developing new engineering methods/approaches and intellectual property.
* Develop new engineering methods/approaches, and technical standards, and serve as a key leader in extending technical capabilities.
* Perform the electrical design, fabrication, field deployment, testing, and operation of complex oceanographic and acoustic systems and instrumentation.
* Independently solving complex electrical engineering dilemmas.
* Oversee the hardware and software development of power storage and management systems for long-duration vehicles.
* Developing and initiating technical standards.
External Proposal Efforts:
* Extend technical capabilities, while pulling from peer networks to enrich technical capabilities and collaborative efforts.
* Identifying and leading proposal efforts from inception to implementation.
* Collaborate and author reports, presentations, and papers.
Requirements:
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4 years of experience.
- US Citizenship.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
- Complex electrical design, fabrication, development and testing.
- Identifying and leading or significantly contributing to external requests for funding.
- Must be physically capable of working at sea in small to large vessels for extended periods and willing to perform such duties.
- Ability to work independently, and as part of a research team, interacting cooperatively with people from diverse backgrounds, academic levels, and nationalities.
- Creative/novel problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
The person hired into this position must be a U.S. citizen and successfully obtain and continue to maintain a Department of Defense (DOD) Personnel Security Clearance. The process for obtaining a DOD Security Clearance can be view using the following links: Processing Applicants (dcsa.mil) or General Investigations and Clearance Processes (dcsa.mil)
Desired:
Please note that this position has been re-posted. If you have already submitted your application, you need not submit it again, as it has already been received.
As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities, and unique resources in an environment noted for academic excellence, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
The Environmental and Information Systems Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington is hiring – See Yourself at APL!
The Environmental and Information Systems Department is seeking a full-time, regular Electrical Engineer to join the team.
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. Work requires a broad knowledge of precedents in the specialty area and a good knowledge of the principles and practices of related specialties.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning:
* Managing multiple or significant projects, while maintaining positive relationships with major funders and sponsors.
Electrical Engineering:
* Developing new engineering methods/approaches and intellectual property.
* Develop new engineering methods/approaches, and technical standards, and serve as a key leader in extending technical capabilities.
* Perform the electrical design, fabrication, field deployment, testing, and operation of complex oceanographic and acoustic systems and instrumentation.
* Independently solving complex electrical engineering dilemmas.
* Oversee the hardware and software development of power storage and management systems for long-duration vehicles.
* Developing and initiating technical standards.
External Proposal Efforts:
* Extend technical capabilities, while pulling from peer networks to enrich technical capabilities and collaborative efforts.
* Identifying and leading proposal efforts from inception to implementation.
* Collaborate and author reports, presentations, and papers.
Requirements:
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4 years of experience.
- US Citizenship.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
- Complex electrical design, fabrication, development and testing.
- Identifying and leading or significantly contributing to external requests for funding.
- Must be physically capable of working at sea in small to large vessels for extended periods and willing to perform such duties.
- Ability to work independently, and as part of a research team, interacting cooperatively with people from diverse backgrounds, academic levels, and nationalities.
- Creative/novel problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
The person hired into this position must be a U.S. citizen and successfully obtain and continue to maintain a Department of Defense (DOD) Personnel Security Clearance. The process for obtaining a DOD Security Clearance can be view using the following links: Processing Applicants (dcsa.mil) or General Investigations and Clearance Processes (dcsa.mil)
Desired:
• Electronics problem solving/troubleshooting.
• Acoustics knowledge and experience.
• Small vehicle embedded electronics design and fabrication.
• Battery Management Systems, Power Management for a long duration.
• PADS circuit design and fabrication software.
• MATLAB, Python, and embedded programming.
• Low noise/analog front-end electronic design for instrumentation.
• Propulsion system drive electronics experience.
About APL:
The Applied Physics Laboratory is a research unit at the University of Washington. Our research expertise is in ocean physics and engineering, ocean and medical acoustics and imaging, polar science, remote sensing, and signal processing. We conduct research and development that is sponsored by a variety of federal and state agencies and take great pride in our long-standing status as a US Navy-designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). Our work takes place not only on the University of Washington campus and medical centers, but in field locations around the world – at sea, in the air, and on polar ice caps. We apply rigorous scientific inquiry and engineering excellence in pursuit of solutions to important problems for the good of our region, nation, and world.
We are focused on building and sustaining a laboratory where all students, staff, and collaborators can realize success. We believe every member of our team enriches our research enterprise by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and discover, design, and deliver solutions. We invite you to explore our laboratory, to find answers to Common Questions about the University’s application process, and to See Yourself at APL .
About the University of Washington’s Application Process
The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.
About APL:
The Applied Physics Laboratory is a research unit at the University of Washington. Our research expertise is in ocean physics and engineering, ocean and medical acoustics and imaging, polar science, remote sensing, and signal processing. We conduct research and development that is sponsored by a variety of federal and state agencies and take great pride in our long-standing status as a US Navy-designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). Our work takes place not only on the University of Washington campus and medical centers, but in field locations around the world – at sea, in the air, and on polar ice caps. We apply rigorous scientific inquiry and engineering excellence in pursuit of solutions to important problems for the good of our region, nation, and world.
We are focused on building and sustaining a laboratory where all students, staff, and collaborators can realize success. We believe every member of our team enriches our research enterprise by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and discover, design, and deliver solutions. We invite you to explore our laboratory, to find answers to Common Questions about the University’s application process, and to See Yourself at APL .
About the University of Washington’s Application Process
The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.
Salary : $7,500 - $11,104
