Wireless Network Engineer

About the role

Support concept development, prototype design, and solutions ideation for next-generation network capabilities. Translate customer needs and strategic objectives into actionable architectures and prototype implementations of new and novel solutions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth assessments of customer requirements
• Perform network modeling and simulation activities
• Evaluate and optimize performance
• Provide technical consulting to define solution requirements to optimize for mission application needs
• Refine technical roadmaps
• Deliver solution briefs
• Collaborate with stakeholders
• Represent innovative wireless capabilities at demonstrations and technical events
• Mentor emerging engineers

Requirements

• Experience designing, integrating, and developing advanced wireless network capabilities using flexible software architectures and commercial off the shelf hardware
• Knowledge of how applications, transports, and mission services interact across contested and bandwidth-limited environments
• Knowledge of military radio waveforms, transport, communications planning systems, and mission critical networking systems including interoperability across heterogeneous transports, routing frameworks, tactical-edge networks, and government mission systems supporting the Department of War
• Ability to work in Agile development environments with continuous integration and DevSecOps practices that enable rapid prototyping, iterative refinement, and accelerated delivery of fieldable wireless networking capabilities
• Establish trust, communicate effectively, and maintain strong relationships with clients, mission operators, network stakeholders, and technical partners to ensure alignment between operational networking needs and technical designs or capability roadmaps
• Travel up to 15% of the time

Qualifications

• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field

Skills

• Experience developing modular, service-based wireless and RF applications using microservices, well-defined API specifications, and distributed network-processing frameworks that support scalable, resilient wireless and spectrum-aware operations
• Experience with orchestration and containerized deployments, such as Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless platforms, to rapidly field wireless prototypes, automate scaling of network functions, and ensure reliable delivery of RF and mission-network services in contested or degraded environments
• Experience applying cloud technologies and modern data-engineering techniques to host, process, and fuse high-volume wireless, RF, and electromagnetic-sensing data to support real-time analytics, adaptive routing, and prototype network capability development
• Knowledge of advanced analytics, artificial-intelligence and machine-learning workflows, and disciplined MLOps pipelines that enable intelligent spectrum decision making, wireless performance prediction, and dynamic adaptation to RF interference or jamming
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for explaining wireless architectures, RF networking concepts, and EW/EMSO-relevant design decisions, and for delivering capability demonstrations to mission and technical stakeholders
• TS/SCI clearance
• CompTIA Security+ certification

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care
• Recognition awards program

Pay

$77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD)

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role.

Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.