Photonics Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Photonics/Electrical Engineer to support our work with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD. The Photonics Engineer will work on-site in an integrated, results-oriented, research and development team environment with the Electronic Warfare (EW) Branch.

Responsibilities

• Research adversary warfare systems technology trends and techniques
• Participate in defining requirements for EW compact payloads
• Apply knowledge of adversary technologies and notional blue force concepts of operations to define requirements for EW compact payloads
• Derive RF requirements for mixed analog, digital and photonics design and translate into photonics specifications
• Apply novel trends in photonics RF such as wideband receivers and transmitters, oscillators, low-noise amplifiers, high-power amplifiers, filters, and photonics computation to EW applications including receive, process, and transmit
• Work with multi-mode (mixed analog/digital/photonics) integrated circuit designers to develop requirements and specifications for fabricated and heterogeneously integrated electronics such as photonics integrated circuits
• Work with ARL photonics experts and utilize lab equipment to develop physical bench-level and lab demonstrations of photonics EW applications
• Work with ARL manufacturing experts to integrate photonics RF into heterogeneous structures consisting of conformal antennas, photonics, analog and digital electronics, bio-inspired computing and emerging energy storage layers

Requirements

• Recent graduate of PhD program from R1 university with specialization in Photonics RF to include receivers, transmitters, mixers, filters, oscillators, and photonics computation
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• US Citizen with ability to obtain a Secret Clearance

Qualifications

• Completion of Post Doc
• Experience with EW applications
• Working knowledge of MATLAB or Python
• Interest in advancing and prioritizing national security technologies

Skills

• Basic understanding of RF and photonics technologies
• Collaboration with various engineering and non-technical staff

Benefits

HII has been providing engineering and management support to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for over 20 years, conducting innovative research to provide the Army with affordable enabling technologies in sensors, EW, quantum information sciences, and photonics.

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this role is $104,336.00 - $175,000.00.

Schedule

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII’s Mission Technologies division.