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Pasadena, CA, USA
2026-06-28
Jada Staffing Inc.
North America
Software Developer Intern TS / SCI
Role Description
**Job Summary**
We are seeking a highly motivated Software Developer Intern with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS / SCI) clearance to join our dynamic team.
**Responsibilities**
* **High-Fidelity Modeling:** Maintain, modify, and develop high-fidelity behavioral simulations of electromechanical actuators and sensors.
* **Model Validation:** Tune and validate simulations against actual testbed data to ensure physical accuracy.
* **Risk Reduction \& Requirements:** Utilize high-fidelity models to conduct risk reduction activities and establish technical requirements for future versions of mechanisms.
* **System Integration:** Create and maintain low-fidelity "surrogate" models that approximate actuator behavior for use in larger, integrated system simulations.
* **Study Support:** Execute rapid-turnaround tasks (2–3 week cycles) to support sponsor-driven studies, delivering results via plots and presentations.
* **Simulation Maintenance:** Provide ongoing maintenance and updates to the project’s primary simulation environment to ensure stability for other project stakeholders.
* **Vendor Technical Integration:** Participate in vendor meetings and technical reviews to absorb critical design information, ensuring that behavioral models accurately reflect external hardware and software specifications.
* **Technical Versatility:** Act as a flexible resource within a small team, providing overlap and support for other GNC functions as bandwidth requires.
* **Communication**: Translate complex simulation data into clear, concise plots and PowerPoint presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
**Education / Work Experience:**
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related STEM degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
***This position requires a U.S. Citizen who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization***
**Mandatory Skills:**
* · Expert-level proficiency in **Matlab** and Simulink.
* Familiarity with signal processing.
* Ability to create and maintain behavioral models that capture the critical aspects of complex electromechanical systems in a manner that is transparent, understandable, and modifiable for other team members.
* Communication: Demonstrated ability to communicate technical results through high-quality visualization (plots) and professional presentations.
* Experience with high-bandwidth mechatronics and dynamics.
* Experience in the research and development of precision pointing systems.
* Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and pivot quickly between different technical tasks.
* Experience working directly with external vendors and hardware suppliers.
* Ability to adapt to diverse vendor-delivered simulation environments and data formats, with the flexibility to operate within varied external workflows.
* Familiarity with the transition from high-fidelity research models to low-fidelity flight/system models.
Pay: $70\.00 - $85\.00 per hour
Benefits:
* AD\&D insurance
* Dental insurance
* Health insurance
* Life insurance
* Relocation assistance
* Vision insurance
Work Location: In person