# Principal Underwater Acoustics Engineer

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.The Maritime and Acoustics Department in MITRE’s Signals and Electronics Division is a cross-domain team of engineers and scientists working at the intersection of underwater acoustics, HF propagation, sonar analysis, acoustic communications, and prototype sensing systems. We work on some of the most technically demanding problems in undersea and mar

- **Id**: 3516618
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- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
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- **Locations**: Bedford, United States
- **Countries**: US
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- **Experience years min**: 10
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- **Status**: live
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- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
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- **Days open**: 11
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- **Industries**: Space & Aerospace, National Security, Homeland Security

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## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Radar Signal Processing** — Optional: no

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- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

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- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T10:35:29Z

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