
Senior RF Engineer
Scientific Research Corporation
- Huntsville, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identifying, defining, and solving complex technical problems related to RF systems requirements, design, development, integration, testing and/or fielding which require a high level of ingenuity and innovativeness
- Encouraging optimum design within project schedule and funding limitations
- Interacting frequently as the organizational representative with the customer in the collection and translation of customer requirements to defined specifications
- Making frequent contact with customers, team partners, subcontractors, and suppliers to obtain/exchange information, providing technical direction, and assisting in the resolution of technical issues
- Developing and delivering complex technical presentations related to RF systems to high- level program management and customers. May lead major program and/or design reviews and major proposal activities
- Performing extensive research and complex analysis on a major project to enhance the technical and economic development of the product and/or service. Completed reports or studies may be deliverable engineering products to the customer. This includes providing theoretical expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Radio wave propagation
- Digital signal processing
- RF and/or digital hardware design and integration
- Threat RF systems exploitation
- Communications theory
- Waveform development and modeling
- Electronic Warfare systems
- Providing functional and technical guidance to engineers. Typically provides leadership and technical direction for a project team
- Actively seeking new business opportunities in related technical areas
- Identifying new customers and/or developing additional tasking with existing customers
- Additional responsibilities will vary based on specific areas of RF expertise to include some of the following tasks:
- Threat systems analysis
- Model development to match intelligence assessments, including waveform scheduling, correlation/tracking and signal processing
- RF signals processing
- RF algorithms / logic
- Antenna analysis
- Target tracking
- Writing technical briefings, papers and reports to reflect intelligence analysis and assessments of foreign threat systems
- System performance assessments of major subsystems including but not limited to phased array antennas, transmitters and receivers, RF signal processors and computer algorithms/logic
- This job requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and ten or more years of work related experience
- The primary or most necessary skills required for this job are analytical skills. Other important skills include communication, leadership and problem solving skills, and short-term and long-term planning skills
- Proficiency in the one or more of the following toolsets:
- Modeling Software: MATLAB, SimuLink, MathCAD
- Radar Signal and Data Processing Toolsets
- Experience with root cause analysis of RF systems and interoperability
- Knowledge of sensor signal processing, signal detection, probability & statistics
- Experience integrating sensor, shooter, and command and control systems
- Knowledge of sensor array processing methods, antennas, and propagation
- 10 or more years of work related experience
- N/A