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Responsibilities
Empower AI: As a Radio Frequency Electronics Engineer - Level 3, you will work with a team of professionals who are responsible for designing, implementing, and administering security systems for the safety of the United States. In assuming this position, you will be a critical contributor to meeting Empower AI's mission to fundamentally improve how the government conducts business and help its leaders achieve their missions by realizing the promise of AI.
Highlights of Responsibilities:
- Provide a broad range of support to various organizations of the US Government.
- Duties include assisting with the design, modification, operation, maintenance, and support of complex computerized electronic and RF (Radio Frequency) receiver equipment and systems.
- Performs directly or oversees researching, selecting, installing, testing and/or development of RF components as antennas, cables, switches, down converters, etc. and systems mainly for Technical Surveillance Countermeasures purposes.
- Applying various methods of modulation and utilizing different types of test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers.
- Assists to resolve difficult and complex Technical Security problems, both independently and as part of a TSCM team.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Clearance Required: US Department of Defense (DOD) issued TS/SCI clearance and able to obtain a US Department of Energy (DOE) Q Clearance, or an active DOE Q Clearance
- Must be knowledgeable in the following:
- Common antennas and RF cable designs and their characteristics
- Harmonics
- 3d order intercept point
- Comb generators
- Receiver sensitivity and selectivity
- Analog and digital modulation techniques
- Intermodulation
- Programming test and measurement equipment via a computer interface
- System engineering, including interconnecting and configuring various pieces of test and measurement equipment directly and over a network.
- Project engineering, including developing goals and milestones, monitoring progress, quality control, developing bills of material (BOM), and estimating labor requirements.
- System engineering, including interconnecting and configuring various pieces of test and measurement equipment directly and over a network.
Required Education and Experience:
- BS Engineering (Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering preferred) or equivalent experience.
- 7 years of professional, hands-on Engineering experience in RF, analog and digital system level troubleshooting, and equipment calibration, maintenance, and repair.
- Technical Security training is a plus
Physical Requirements:
This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:
- Sitting for long periods
- Standing for long periods
- Ambulate throughout an office
- Ambulate between several buildings
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
- Repeatedly lift and carry weight up to 50 pounds
- Travel by land or air transportation 5 %
About Empower AI
It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Employment Type: FULL_TIME