Research Scientist: Sensemaking & Autonomous Control
Job in
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02140, USA
Listed on 2026-01-12
Listing for:
Prattwhitney
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, AI Engineer, Robotics, Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics -
IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, AI Engineer, Robotics
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Sense making & Autonomous Control page is loaded## Research Scientist:
Sense making & Autonomous Control locations:
MA105: BBN Headquarters 10 Moulton Street , Cambridge, MA, 02138 USAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
** Date Posted:
**** Country:
** United States of America
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* Location:
** MA105: BBN Headquarters 10 Moulton Street , Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA
** Position Role Type:
** Hybrid
* * U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
** The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
** Security Clearance:
** DoD Clearance: TS/SCIRTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity.
The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.
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** The following position is to join our BBN team:
** Our Sense making and Autonomous Control (SMAC) group is seeking experienced professionals for exciting technology development positions in its Cambridge MA or Rosslyn VA office. The successful candidate will be self-motivated with an ability to work independently, solve solving complex technical challenges as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, and support business growth opportunities.
If you enjoy working in a culture that emphasizes innovation, teamwork, and technical excellence in a collegial work environment that values creativity and initiative, we'd like to hear from you.
Unlike other small business defense research companies, BBN is uniquely positioned to collaborate and transition technology within greater RTX. When our goals are aligned, we support greater RTX in the actualization of our key insights into next generation products.
The following position is to join our BBN SMAC team:
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* What You Will Do:
** In support of chiefly DoD and Intelligence Community missions, BBN’s Sense making and Autonomous Control (SMAC) group specializes in the development and deployment of cutting-edge, trustworthy, third-wave Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to enable the advanced machine reasoning needed for autonomous and trusted systems of tomorrow.
The SMAC group works challenging, often resource constrained (e.g. edge computing), inference and optimization problems collaboratively with sensor, hardware, and platform providers to coordinate and/or synergize assets. The group blends classical optimization, probabilistic, model-based estimation and control, computer vision, and physics-based approaches with AI architectures for supervised learning and deep reinforcement learning to provide performant, robust, and trustworthy solutions.
You will support SMAC in developing novel analytics and algorithms to address complex, open-ended, DoD and intelligence problems requiring unprecedented speed, performance, and trustworthiness. You will work with globally recognized R&D leaders in their field to develop the technologies of tomorrow for our defense and intelligence communities. You will be work side by side with leading scientists, engineers, and program managers of all levels to enable tactical and strategic decision-making using Python, Java, C, and/or C++.
You will work with senior and junior technical staff to grow our business with both current and new customers.
** Qualifications You Must Have:
*** Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience
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