Boston Participating Exhibitors

About The Company:

AS&E X-ray inspection systems are used by governments and corporations around the world to combat terrorism, drug and weapons smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud.

AS&E specializes in detection technologies that can uncover dangerous and elusive threats, including explosives, plastic and metal weapons, and radioactive devices, such as dirty bombs and nuclear WMD. These X-ray systems are deployed worldwide at ports and borders, and military and high-threat facilities. Our signature technology – Z® Backscatter – gives our systems unparalleled detection capabilities, making it the technology of choice when the highest levels of security are required.

Job Titles and Descriptions:

Principal Electrical Engineer

AS&E produces X-ray inspection equipment for security applications and is experiencing significant growth. In this role, you will provide electrical systems leadership in X-ray imaging product development from the concept architecture stage through detailed design, verification and validation to production transition. The ideal candidate will possess a broad range of system level design skills including power distribution, interconnect design, motion control, sensor interface embedded computing and electromechanical design coupled with board level circuit design. The emphasis in this position is product level electrical design for electromechanical systems.

Requirements: • BS/EE • 10+ years of related experience and a systems engineering perspective • Possess a strong combination of systems engineering and hands-on detailed design skills • Prior experience developing electrical architecture for new products • FPGA and micro processor expertise is essential • A bility to do board level circuit design • Technical leadership of projects.

Senior Mechanical Engineer

It's a great time to be in a great industry. The qualified applicant will be responsible for large system design efforts while serving as lead engineer on major projects with responsibilities extending to project integration; Provide guidance to junior members of engineering staff and technical insight to all levels of engineering and management; Conduct in-depth quantitative analyses of design performance for proposed and developing designs using hand and computer aided methods; Make technical recommendations/decision on projects and develop engineering statements of work and cost and manpower estimates for proposed projects; Lead the development of and present technical design reviews; Report technical and programmatic status to program, functional and executive management.

Requirements: • BSME • 8-10 years related experience • Prior experience as a design engineer in a new product development setting • Direct experience with design and analysis of mechanical struc tures, electromechanical mechanisms, sheet metal packaging and high reliability motion mechanisms desired • Proficiency in engineering computer tools used for design analysis and verification required • Lean design experience in desired.

Principal Software Engineer

AS&E is currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design develop and unit test software components for state of the art X-ray inspection systems. Responsibilities: Design, develop, & unit test software components for state of the art X-ray inspection systems. Software components for capital equipment include control, imaging, and database systems. Software is developed using C# & C++ in a Windows environment using .NET 2005. Experience in either SQL Server 2005 Express, distributed systems, and networking is required. Knowledge of CORBA, DCOM, WCF, TCP/IP, UDP, & ATL desired.

Requirements: • BS CS is required, MS is desired • 15+ years experience in design and development of C#/C++ software systems • 15+ years developing encapsulated Windows (XP, XPE, Vista) applications using WFC or .NET remoting, linq, and older technologies such as: COM, MFC, STL, Win32 API • 2+ years experience in C# and 8+ experience in C++ in design & development of C#/C++ applications required • Knowledge of UML, OOD, multithreading, SW/HW integration, and Agile required • Experience with working in small cross functional and outsourced teams required.

Systems Engineer

The successful candidate will demonstrate a track record of leading systems design, integration and test activities. The systems engineering group engages in the architecture and development of complex X-ray imaging security systems in collaboration with cross functional development teams. The candidate will work effectively in a multi-disciplinary product development environment, balancing competing performance requirement to arrive at testable and maintainable system architectures. The candidate will have experience managing technical relationships with design partners. The ideal candidate will be experienced in X-ray imaging systems development, familiar with the demands of motion control, inter-module dependencies and communications and imaging processing technology. Some responsibilities include: Develop system requirements and architectures from defined user needs, working with marketing, science and engineering staff; Specify, design, prototype and debug complex X-ray inspection subsystems for new platforms; Conduct technical risk and tradeoff analysis from the top-down and bottom-up; Perform root cause analysis on a variety of system performance issues and develop solutions and performance verification; Support existing products by responding to issues arising from internal testing and field use of the systems. The qualified candidate must be able to communicate technical ideas effectively to a multidisciplinary audience, orally and in writing; Derive subordinate requirements from the top level product requirements; Formulate system technical concept of operations and feasible technical approaches; Synthesize system architectures that are deployable, testable and maintainable; Analyze complex subsystem interactions and develop, implement and verify the solutions; Operate flexibly in a multi-team environment having competing priorities; Solve subtle problems, assessing multi-domain solutions with a high attention to detail and demonstrate strong analytical and decision-making skills.

Requirements: • Advanced degree in Physics or Engineering with demonstrated success in practical industrial applications • 10 years experience in a similar role, with at least 5 years leading engineering development of capital equipment • Design and development of Electro-mechanical software controlled systems • Analysis tools such as Mathcad, Matlab, Mathematica or Maple is a plus • Design tool such as SolidWorks, MS, C++ and C# are a plus • Complex data acquisition electronics systems design a plus.

Proposal Specialist

High energy? Team-player? This may be the job for you! We are seeking a Proposal Specialist to lead the proposal process for Federal and Commercial opportunities. Responsibilities: In this role the qualified individual will assist the Proposal Manager on large complex proposals. As well, analyze the RFP; draft the project plan; manage the proposal schedule; track content input; conduct red team reviews; coordinate/manage final/deliverable documents; work with various function to complete proposal such as product management, finance, service, science, contracts, etc. Under the direction of the Proposal Manager, this person is responsible for developing, maintaining and updating the proposal generation knowledgebase.

Requirements: • BA/BS Degree in Communications, English or Technical Writing or equivalent work experience in a Federal government/commercial environment • 3-5 years experience managing compliant proposal responses and related technical documentation in respons e to RFPs • Excellent Interpersonal and English language communication skills • Excellent organizational skills • Ability to work in a fast paced environment and adapt to changing requirements/deadlines •Ability to understand and communicate technical/business solutions to personnel at all levels of the organization and with subcontractors • Proficiency in MS Office Suite (word, excel, PowerPoint) experience with Oracle is a plus.

Company Website URL:

www.as-e.com