Resume
Jason Karlin
Integration and test engineer with six years of experience across hardware–software integration, real-time simulation, field-deployed radar systems, and agile verification and validation. I build and troubleshoot across the full stack, from ICD-level interfaces to system-level acceptance.
Experience
Integration and Test Task Lead · Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
2024 – Present- Lead budget, tasking, and schedule for a navigation and guidance subsystem flight experiment.
- Established a V&V framework aligned to INCOSE and IEEE 1012-2024, defining inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test methods across the system lifecycle.
- Authored technical data packages for SCR, SRR, and PDR milestones with minimal rework.
Hardware-in-the-Loop / Real-Time Modeling Engineer · Draper
2023 – Present- Recovered and validated a legacy real-time IMU simulation for navigation and guidance testing, updating code and documentation under AS9100 configuration management.
- Diagnosed transformer faults, timing drift, and ICD mismatches across lab and customer field environments, isolating interleaved hardware/software root causes.
- Mentor junior engineers in structured troubleshooting and guide them through the performance review cycle.
Radar Systems Engineer · Raytheon Technologies, CENTCOM theater
Dec 2021 – Dec 2023- Deployed as the forward-positioned systems engineer, leading on-site diagnosis of radar anomalies and coordinating engineering change implementations.
- Engineered contingency process plans to minimize downtime during hardware failures, and assessed system compliance with MATLAB analysis scripts.
Systems Test Engineer · Raytheon Technologies, Woburn, MA
May 2019 – Nov 2021- Product owner for a five-person agile team: drove sprint planning and backlog prioritization, and translated customer needs into testable requirements.
- Led hardware–software integration test campaigns and developed automated verification scripts in MATLAB, Unix, DOORS, and Excel.
Projects
Personal AI assistant
Mar 2026 – Present- Architected and implemented a personal agent with Claude Code for daily briefings, email triage, and automated task creation, with confirm-first guardrails and audit logging on outward actions.
Home server & automated dashboard
Mar 2026- Provisioned a Linux home server and a dashboard integrating MBTA, Google Calendar, weather, kanban, and IoT sensor data.
Education
M.S. Aerospace Engineering · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · GPA 3.77
Oct 2020B.S. Aerospace Engineering · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · GPA 3.64
May 2020Skills
- Software
- MATLAB, Simulink, Python, Unix, DOORS, Fusion 360, LaTeX, Git, Claude Code
- Domains
- Integration & test, V&V (INCOSE / IEEE 1012), hardware-in-the-loop, real-time simulation, Agile/Scrum, AS9100