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Summary:
The Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer will support a space and counterspace program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist the program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems with Subject Matter Expertise.
- Conduct propagation modeling and analysis for communications, bistatic, multi-static, and monostatic radar.
- Provide link budget analysis assuming standard propagation losses, atmospheric effects, environmental effects, and circuit effects.
- Conduct RF systems engineering and reverse engineering.
- Design, develop, produce, analyze, integrate, test, and deploy digital MASINT receiver applications.
- Plan and execute construction projects and deployments.
- Build transmitters and receivers for communications satellite systems and RF systems.
- Assist with the preparation of government CDRLs as requested by the Project Lead.
- Provide pre-deployment, and post-deployment support of current and future SCS technical collection capabilities, including but not limited to:
- Support system development, validation, verification testing, and acceptance.
- Support to pre-deployment surveys.
- Support to logistics, planning, and execution of asset installation.
- Fabrication and Field Engineering support.
- Maintenance and decommissioning of forward-deployed assets.
- Complete daily time recording as required in compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Complete annual training by contract and company policies and procedures.
- Travel up to 15% locally, CONUS, or OCONUS.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)
- High school diploma or equivalent is required.
- Bachelor of Science in related field like Electrical Engineering strongly preferred.
- 9+ years of related experience that demonstrates:
o A strong proficiency with RF communications or radar systems in system development and acquisition programs.
o Planning and executing construction projects and deployments.
o Fixing RF equipment in less-than-ideal conditions.
o Designing and building transmitters/receivers for communications satellite systems and RF systems.
o Satellite radio design, satellite ground system design, and operations.
o Understanding RF feeds across the spectrum, aperture design, phased arraying, and similar.
- Must be able to provide link budget analysis assuming standard propagation losses, and atmospheric, environmental and circuit effects.
- Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain an SCI is required.
- Must pass CI polygraph and be granted SCI eligibility to start.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must be able to maintain a TS/SCI for the lifecycle of the contract.
- Ability to provide expertise for RF systems, receivers, digitizers, and hardware that operates from 10 MHz to 40 GHz RF spectrum preferred.
- Experience in designing, developing, producing, analyzing, integrating, testing, and deploying digital MASINT receiver applications to include low noise amplification, filtering, circuit isolation, timing and clocking techniques, high-speed digital sampling techniques, onboard data processing using FPGA, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), programmable logic devices (PLD), analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), Digital-to analog converters (DACs), and similar preferred.
- Experience in designing, developing, producing, analyzing, integrating, testing, evaluating, and deploying low and high-power transmission systems, including combining networks, transmit/receive modules (TR modules), traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWAs), Solis State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), and similar preferred.
- Must have strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize.
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks with time-related constraints in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to self-start and work independently or as a team.
- Ability to travel locally up to 15% with occasional CONUS or OCONUS travel for approximately one week in duration doing fieldwork.
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Benefits
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