Description:
As an RF Systems Research Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design, integrate, and test sensing and counter sensing systems for radar, electronic warfare, sonar, and other applications.
What you will do:
- Collaborate with the team to quantify goals, system performance objectives, metrics, dependencies, and risks to guide your work.
- Lead and work with small, multi-disciplinary teams to architect, implement, and test RF hardware systems enabling novel sensing, electronic warfare, and signal processing systems.
- Perform performance trade studies and analyses of proposed hardware architectures. Systems predominantly field deployable prototypes with the objective of transitioning to low-volume product systems.
- Build, perform bench-top unit test, integrate, calibrate, and demonstrate/document system performance.
- Work with signal processing team on sensing system test concept and execution methods.
- Design and implement over-the-air system demonstrations, identifying hardware readiness, test architecture, performance metrics, data management, operational procedures, and performance reports.
- Review system effectiveness and identify opportunities to advance and/or mature subsystems and system capabilities.
- Document system design and performance for customer review. Present results to customers.
- Support business development and proposal writing efforts for next-generation RF hardware system development opportunities
Who you are:
- This position requires the ability to obtain a security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is required by U.S. Government
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline
- 2+ years experience working with RF components and subsystems, including T/R modules, rotary joints, pedestal, filters, radiating structures, isolators, amplifiers, ADC/DAC, etc.
- Design experience in:
- RF systems, subsystem and/or component analysis (frequency planning, link budget analysis, transceiver architectures, cascade analysis)
- Electromagnetics & RF/wave propagation
- Skilled in RF component/subsystem/system test and measurement equipment and techniques (anechoic chambers, oscilloscopes, vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators)
- Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python and/or other higher-level languages
- Strong Mathematical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills