Radio Frequency

Space Systems Integration (SSI) is a fast-growing engineering company that provides aerospace solutions to a variety of government and commercial customers. Our employees are forward-thinking, self-directed individuals who are committed to solving our customers' technical challenges.
SSI is searching for a Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer located in Albuquerque, NM. This handpicked candidate must possess technical expertise and experience with developing, designing, building, and integrating advanced mission payload hardware and software. Engineering responsibilities span technology domains including space-rated/qualified RF and communications hardware, software, sensors, and processors. A successful candidate should be a leader and problem solver with a proven ability to deliver superior results as part of a high-performing team in a high-profile, fast-paced environment. The candidate will apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts for highly classified systems, while also effectively communicating complex results with management and executive leadership. You will work in a small, highly empowered team where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the programs.
Role and Responsibilities include: · Supports design, interpretation, and analysis of technical solutions to complex projects · Leads or supports technical programs, projects, or tasks whose technical complexity requires engineering oversight · Ensures completion of tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints · Provide input to the government customer concerning risks to performance, schedule, and budget due to either proposed contractor plans or the contractor's execution of accepted plans · Ensure the quality of the program, project, or task deliverables meet or exceed standards or metrics and assess such deliverables to ensure that the final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended · Plans and performs engineering research, design development, and other engineering assignments in conformance with the design, engineering, and customer specifications · Responsible for the overall technical/engineering portions of major projects or programs · Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support delivery milestones · Tracks and advises design trades and associated cost, schedule, and technical impacts to requirements · Initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs · Provides strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to program and project staff · Provides detailed analysis, evaluation, and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission-critical challenges/issues · Consult with client to define needs or problem · Supervises studies and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions · Communicate, concisely, and with technical accuracy—oral and written · Other duties as requiredRequired Qualifications

• Minimum ten (10) years DoD/IC, or relevant industry work experience
• An applicable engineering degree from a program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or possess a Professional Engineering license
• Relevant MA/MS/ME degree
• Skilled in development and fielding RF and communication systems
• Understanding of space operational environment and corresponding mission user needs
• Knowledge of space mission engineering, development, and manufacturing
• Experience in DoD program management including program development and transition
• Experience with Integrated Master Schedules, and risk management
• Active TOP SECRET clearance with sensitive compartmentalized information (SCI) and special access program (SAP) eligibility
• No less than five (5) years total SAP and/or SCI environment experience and 1-year total within last 5 years
• Candidate must maintain a TS/SCI clearance as a condition of employment and willingness to submit to a Counter-Intelligence polygraph
• This position is full-time, on site at Kirtland AFB, NM and will require travel up to 30% of time within the continental United States

Desired Qualifications.

• Fifteen (15) years of relevant DoD and/or Industry work experience with SAP/RSV and/or SCI
• System Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) to Government program office
• Experience with rapid prototyping
• Experience with integrated air, space, and cyberspace capabilities
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining ground mission planning architecture and software
• Experience with ACAT I/II level acquisition programs
• Experience in planning and executing test campaigns for space systems

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Space Systems Integration provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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