RF Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


San Diego, California, United States SAIC Full time
Job Summary

SAIC is seeking a highly skilled RF Systems Engineer to support the planning, integration, testing, and architecture design of RF capabilities within a portfolio of Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations (BAIO) capabilities for our DoD customer.

Key Responsibilities
  • Monitor RF and signal processing design and development, providing independent assessments and recommending system improvements and efficiencies.
  • Review and assess design and supporting analysis, ensuring compliance with technical requirements.
  • Perform systems engineering for surface-based RF systems, evaluating design solutions and assessing architecture analysis.
  • Provide technical support and independent risk assessment and evaluation of program management execution, technical review execution, and systems engineering.
  • Assess viability from a programmatic and technical execution perspective, identifying potential weaknesses and developing action plans to resolve current or future gaps in capabilities.
  • Translate technical requirements into work packages, evaluating technical proposals, managing modeling and simulation activities, and scheduling management to deliver an end product.
  • Provide technical and acquisition support to Government and contractor milestone reviews to assess progress, issues, and meeting mission requirements traceability.
  • Develop and review technical requirements, evaluating technical proposals, reviewing and assessing software engineering and algorithm development, and CONOPS development.
  • Provide subject matter expertise to the government in the oversight of RF system development, testing, integration, sustainment, and updates.
  • Assess electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (antennas, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance.
  • Review and assess electrical schematics and mechanical drawings for applications as they relate to reliability, maintainability, and feasibility.
  • Design and troubleshoot RF (such as UHF, S-Band, X, Ka, or Ku bands) test setups and associated support equipment to support execution of testing strategies.
  • Participate in development of new RF designs and drive optimization for manufacturability and cost.
  • Provide expertise for technologies, such as software-defined radios, digital signal processing, radio frequency (RF) hardware design, antenna design, waveform design, and wireless communications.
  • Participate in technical reviews, recommending and implementing appropriate corrective action to resolve technical and non-technical issues, define external dependencies and system support requirements, and perform technical research, innovation, leading-edge planning, and assisting with the implementation of new tools and methods.
  • Conduct independent investigations of system designs, attend program meetings, and provide briefings, meeting reports, lessons learned, and after-action reports, identifying and evaluating any potential weaknesses, and developing action plans to resolve current or future gaps in capabilities.
Qualifications
  • Ability to work with and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders, government technical representatives, and other supporting contractors.
  • Excellent written and oral communications.
  • Ability to work independently or in a team collaborative environment.
  • Ability to brief senior government personnel.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Science, Engineering, or Math and 5 years or more experience. 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
  • TS/SCI clearance.
  • Prior experience with high-powered aperture and complex RF systems.
  • Must have understanding of the systems engineering process and applications.
  • Must have experience utilizing system engineering or project management principles for requirements development.
  • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team environment.
Desired Skills and Certifications
  • INCOSE ASEP/CSEP.
  • Understanding of PEO C4I / NAVWAR organization structure, programs of records, and mission focus.
  • Basic familiarity of PoR, DOD, U.S. Navy acquisition documents.
  • Prior Military experience with IO/ISR systems.
  • Experience working with Model-Based Systems Engineering software tools, such as Enterprise Architect or No Magic CAMEO.
  • ELINT, SIGINT, COMINT, and/or MASINT collection processes, capabilities, and technical parameters.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

COVID-19 Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.


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