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Peraton

Diagnostic System Engineer

Woodbridge, NJ, United States

Target Salary Range $112,000 - $179,000.

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Pay: Target Salary Range $112,000 - $179,000.
Apply by: Nov 4, 2027
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 4, 2026

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Peraton Overview

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 peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

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.
Generate supporting documentation and reports that represent the system under test, objectives, and results in a concise and understandable manner.
Summarize and present test results for review by Peraton engineers and customers.
Support the development of proposal responses to support contract opportunities.

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Qualifications

Required Education and Work Experience

The successful candidate has diversified knowledge of principles and practices in engineering complex systems. A degree in Optical, Physical, Nuclear, or Electrical Engineering (lasers and photonics), or specialized Physical Chemistry is required for this role with the following experience levels:

BS with 5 or more years of experience.
MS with 3 or more years of experience.
PhD with 0 or more years of experience.

(Experience must be with relevant work in a professional setting)

Required Skills/Attributes

Extensive professional experience of working with and selecting appropriate detectors, coatings and materials for diagnostic and data acquisition systems.
Extensive professional experience with lab measurement equipment such as optical power meters (thermopiles), photodiodes, camera systems, oscilloscopes, waveform generators, digital volt meters.
Experience setting up and executing tests using equipment such as steering mirrors, beamsplitters, lenses, filters, collimators, diffusers, detectors, etc.
Experience drawing complete and representative models and experimental layouts
Proficient in writing technical documentation in MS Word and presenting it in MS PowerPoint.
Experience with common diagnostic control, processing and simulation software tools like Matlab, Simulink, Labview.
US Citizenship

Desired Skills/Attributes

Analyze designs to determine their efficacy in modeling environments such as Zemax, 3DOptix and MODTRAN
Experience with automated control of optical systems operating under harsh environmental conditions such as nuclear, vacuum and temperature extremes.
Familiar with electrical and mechanical engineering aspects of diagnostic system design
An understanding of complex magnetic systems and their effect on various system components
Ability to conduct a hazard analysis and document results.

Target Salary Range $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own. EEO EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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Skills

Work independently
Leadership
Research
Documentation
Presentation skills
Test procedures
Electrical engineering
Photonics
Data acquisition systems
Refractive power
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
LabVIEW
Zemax
Mechanical engineering

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