RF Communications Engineer

13 hours ago

Bloomington, Illinois, United States The MITRE Corporation Full time
About the Role

The MITRE Corporation is seeking a highly skilled RF Communications Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our Border Security department, you will be responsible for improving our impact on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations in the areas of border security, law enforcement, and immigration.

Key Responsibilities
  • Engage with stakeholders to analyze operational requirements, address challenges, and apply sound technology solutions to benefit the sponsor mission.
  • Lead tasks including planning and execution of the work, leading teams, and developing and presenting results to the sponsor.
  • Perform analyses of current and future communications and networking problems, derive results from modeling and simulation tools, develop data-driven actionable recommendations, and present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Perform wireless and network engineering, analysis, modeling & simulation, prototyping, and experimentation.
  • Identify additional project opportunities to expand the technical work portfolio through sponsor and internal engagement.
Requirements
  • Requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  • Active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fitness and/or component suitability.
  • Able to effectively employ system engineering principles with an understanding of communications and network systems and how they can be applied to solve government problems.
  • Adept at engaging customers through excellent written and verbal communications, including engaging and convincing presentations.
  • Understands the details of communications and network system devices and systems, wireless and wired protocols, and the challenges of communications and networked systems.
  • Able to develop independently and lead teams to develop engineering trade studies, performance analyses, and architecture design and evaluation activities.
  • Technical expertise in one or more of the following communication areas: cellular (5G, LTE), satellite communications (SATCOM), mesh radios, land mobile radio (LMR), Wi-Fi, microwave, and millimeter wave communications.
  • Technical experience with one or more of the following networking devices and tools: IP networking analysis tools, switches, routers, modems, access points, and other networking equipment.
  • Experience with at least one network and communications system modeling and simulation tool, such as Ansys Systems Tool Kit (STK), MATLAB, Planet, Atoll, SpectrumE, SignalPro, Riverbed Modeler, ns-3, ExtendSim, QualNet, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
  • An advanced degree in radio frequency (RF) communications, wireless networks, electrical engineering, radar/sensor analysis, network engineering, or a related field.
  • Active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain DHS fitness and/or component suitability.
  • Understanding of and experience with network engineering concepts including network architecture, cybersecurity, cloud environments, and virtualization.
  • Hands-on experience performing wireless and/or SATCOM engineering trade studies, analyses, modeling & simulation, prototyping and experimentation.
  • Experience planning, developing and executing test and evaluation (T&E) for network and communications systems.
  • Proficiency in more than one network and communications system modeling and simulation (M&S) tool (e.g., STK, MATLAB, Planet, Atoll, SpectrumE, SignalPro, Riverbed Modeler, ns-3, ExtendSim, QualNet, Python, C++ programming, etc.)
  • Experience using network and communications field and lab testing and analysis equipment (e.g., oscilloscope, network analyzer, bit error rate tester (BERT), or spectrum analyzer).
  • Understanding and experience with RF communications theory, including modulations, link budgets, error correction coding, channel effects, communications protocols, etc.

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