Lead RF Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own system-level RF architectures for EW, radar, or high-reliability RF systems including receivers, transmitters, antennas, and countermeasure solutions
• Lead requirements development and decomposition, translating mission needs into executable system designs
• Perform system trade studies balancing performance, cost, schedule, risk, and manufacturability
• Develop and review block diagrams, ICDs, and interface definitions across RF, digital, mechanical, power, and software elements
• Guide and review modeling, simulation, and performance analysis to predict compliance with requirements
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to cross-disciplinary engineering teams
• Support integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) in laboratory and field environments
• Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies and alternative solutions
• Contribute to customer-funded projects, IRAD efforts, and technology roadmaps
• Communicate technical results to internal stakeholders and external customers
• Participate in occasional domestic travel for program reviews, industry days, and technical interchange meetings

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, Physics, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated experience leading RF system-level design decisions for complex, high-reliability systems
• Strong foundation in RF and microwave principles, including concepts such as dB, dBm, EIRP, G/T, noise figure, P1dB, and VSWR
• Experience creating or influencing system architectures, trade studies, and technical decisions
• Able to operate as a hands-on technical lead, balancing leadership with direct technical contribution
• Background in defense, aerospace, electronic warfare, radar, or comparable high-reliability industries

We Value

• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS or Jama
• Exposure to EW, radar warning, electronic attack, direction finding, or RF countermeasures
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches
• Laboratory experience using RF test equipment (e.g., network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes)
• Experience with simulation and analysis tools such as ADS, HFSS, CST, AWR, MATLAB, or Python
• Integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) experience for system compliance determination