1,815 Staff Engineer/Scientist, Research Engineering Jobs

“Challenging -- but sometimes frustrating”

Pros:  “Customers love us, we make awesome products and we get to solve technical challenges every day -- and the solution makes it into enterprise IT a couple of years later. The…”

Cons:  “Planning leaves something to be desired. Sometimes there's a lot of scrambling at the front end, and the tail end of the release.” – Full Review

“A good one, great benefits, easy of hours, and a lot of work to go around”

Pros:  “The benefits is primarily the best part of working in U.W. It is great for an employee who has family. The UW fairly compensates via health benefits to make sure their…”

Cons:  “The measurement of growth and reward is universally structured because of internal control. Departments can't do much to be flexible. It is good structure for…” – Full Review

“A good one, great benefits, easy of hours, and a lot of work to go around”

Pros:  “The benefits is primarily the best part of working in U.W. It is great for an employee who has family. The UW fairly compensates via health benefits to make sure their…”

Cons:  “The measurement of growth and reward is universally structured because of internal control. Departments can't do much to be flexible. It is good structure for…” – Full Review

“My experience was great. I worked there for 6 years.”

Pros:  “I enjoyed the energy of the research community. UW is a great place to do research. I enjoyed learning from visiting scientists through various seminar series.”

Cons:  “The pay is lower at UW for research jobs.” – Full Review

“A good one, great benefits, easy of hours, and a lot of work to go around”

Pros:  “The benefits is primarily the best part of working in U.W. It is great for an employee who has family. The UW fairly compensates via health benefits to make sure their…”

Cons:  “The measurement of growth and reward is universally structured because of internal control. Departments can't do much to be flexible. It is good structure for…” – Full Review

“Cushy place to in which to work, grow old, and retire...”

Pros:  “The work can be relatively interesting and you are given the ability to publish, attend conferences, etc., at least once you get on a project that allows it and a PI that…”

Cons:  “Established lines of work mean that working in new and different areas is difficult, if not impossible. Go work elsewhere if you don't fit nicely into one of BBN's…” – Full Review

“The work is challenging and rewarding but the disorganization can be very frustrating at times.”

Pros:  “The compensation is great and the union ensures that graduate research assistants are not taken advantage of. I found the work challenging and learned a great deal from my…”

Cons:  “At times it can be difficult to balance deadline driven research with graduate studies. Also most academics have a lot of projects going on so the project…” – Full Review

“It was very good, MIT takes very good care of its students and employees”

Pros:  “Excellent health facilities at MIT Medical Great Internet facilities Lots of social events for families A lot of opportunity to learn Very good gym”

Cons:  “For Research Assistants depending on professor work can be really hard, long hours Sometimes RA's are asked by advisor against taking good classes” – Full Review