HF Analyst - SME

About the Company

Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data, and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies.

About the Role

Altamira is seeking an experienced High-Frequency Radar Software Engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide technical leadership in the development, integration, verification, and sustainment of software supporting high-frequency radar systems in Dayton, Ohio. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in radar software architecture and development, real-time and embedded computing, signal-processing workflows, and the integration of software with radar hardware and operational systems. This individual will serve as a technical authority, helping guide engineering teams through complex technical challenges while contributing directly to the design and implementation of mission-critical radar capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and evaluate software architectures for HF radar systems, including real-time processing and distributed computing environments.
• Lead or contribute to software development supporting radar signal acquisition, processing, detection, tracking, classification, and data dissemination.
• Develop and maintain software in languages such as C++, C, Python, or other appropriate technologies.
• Work closely with radar, RF, DSP, systems, hardware, and algorithm engineers to integrate software with radar subsystems.
• Translate radar-system requirements into robust, testable software requirements and designs.
• Provide technical direction on software architecture, interfaces, algorithms, performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Analyze complex system problems and develop practical engineering solutions.
• Support integration, verification, validation, and field testing of radar software.
• Develop or review automated test frameworks, simulation environments, and tools used to validate radar performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with significant experience supporting radar, RF, DSP, or other complex sensing systems.
• Demonstrated expertise developing software for real-time, embedded, or high-performance processing systems.
• Strong proficiency in C++, C, Python, or comparable programming languages.
• Experience with software development throughout the engineering lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Strong understanding of radar systems and the relationship between radar hardware, signal processing, algorithms, and software.
• Experience troubleshooting complex, multi-disciplinary technical problems.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical authority and influence engineering decisions without relying solely on organizational authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance.