Diagnostic System Engineer

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit  to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

The successful candidate will possess the ability to work independently in a small multi-disciplinary team utilizing their experience to drive the analysis, design, prototyping, testing, maturation and manufacture of complex diagnostic systems. They will possess deep understanding and executional experience modeling and designing systems utilizing tools that capture data from key aspects of the phenomena being studied. They will possess a keen ability to identify any deviations in these processes and communicate them to project leadership in a clear and timely manner with effective courses of action provided.

Their career to date will have garnered experience evaluating existing experimental designs before, during and after operations, enabling them to identify a systems fitness of intent. This ability to analyze existing mature designs for manufacturability and develop tests to prove manufactured articles can pass requirements verification and validation tests is a key capability for this role.

On a professional level consummate with their role, the successful candidate will be organized, detail oriented, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively with other technical staff.

Job Purpose

This position will support the design, manufacture, testing and operational phases of projects

undertaken at Peraton Labs, the research and development arm of the Peraton Corporation. The successful candidate will work closely with a diverse team of engineering, scientific and technical staff to develop novel solutions in support of such projects. The primary job location is a Peraton Labs facility in Woodbridge, NJ with some occasional travel required.

Duties and

Responsibilities Include:

• Understand and evaluate concepts, models, designs and existing diagnostic systems to facilitate lab testing, prototype development, software simulation, manufacture and validation.

• Interact with vendors to specify and procure both custom and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components, incoherent light sources, lasers, detectors, filters, camera systems, and mechanical mounting components.

• Engage other subject matter experts to evaluate designs, tests, facilities, components and other related system items to confirm fitness for use, design understanding, procedure efficacy, test validity and other key aspects of a system.

• Design and execute prototyping and lab testing to validate designs to test and mature concepts.

• Creating, reading, analyzing, comprehending and generating professional quality documentation is a required skill for this role.

• Prepare professional material such as presentations, simulation summaries, analysis and other key communicable material for both internal and external reviews for design, testing and manufacture.

• Propose and review test procedures for complex optical systems such that their design objectives, performance, and ultimately manufacture can be verified.

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