Radar Engineer

Requisition Number: 26522

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $90, $117,104.00

Security Clearance: Secret

Level of Experience: Mid

This opportunity resides with Warfare Systems (WS), a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. Warfare Systems comprises cyber and mission IT; electronic warfare; and C5ISR systems.

HII works within our nation's intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace and anticipate emerging threats. Our capabilities in cybersecurity, network architecture, reverse engineering, software and hardware development uniquely enable us to support sensitive missions for the U.S. military and federal agency partners.

Meet HII's Mission Technologies Division

Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense - the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that's right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

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Job Description
HII is recognized as one of America's top large company employers and is driven by strong values and ethics that puts people's safety and well-being first.

HII employees continuously rise to the challenge of setting the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct and perform in concert with our company slogan "Hard Stuff Done Right".

Candidate will assist with co-development and design analysis activities of multiple advanced, first-of-a-kind, ground-based radar systems in collaboration with partner vendors. The candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve objectives. This individual will be a team player and work well with technical professionals in an active, agile environment. The position requires knowledge and experience ranging from radar backend processing models to a complex, system-of-systems radar within a multi-discipline team.

This position requires on-site at WPAFB and is not eligible for remote or hybrid work arrangements.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Propose, research, develop, and document realizable solutions from modeling and simulation of radar processing and self-protection techniques
• Interact with program sponsors and customers to understand program priorities, share analysis results, and introduce new concepts
• Participate in design reviews, technical interchanges, working groups, and program status meetings, either as a presenter or as a reviewer
• Provide critical design feedback and offer potential solutions to any design deficiencies during design reviews, technical interchanges, working groups, and program status meetings
• Participate in meetings and collaboration events at DoD and vendor locations

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Radar or RF systems
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Self-starter - takes the initiative to research, learn, and deliver. Anticipates the play.
• Team player - humble, collaborative, focused on making sure the entire team succeeds, wiliness to share knowledge with junior engineers
• CLEARANCE: Minimum Secret clearance is required to start
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with advanced security checks

Preferred Requirements

• 3+ years of experience scripting and coding signal processing and radar domain problems with Python, MATLAB and MATLAB Toolboxes
• 3+ years of experience with analog, digital, and Radar/RF electronic components, antennas, phased arrays, digital radar
• 3+ years of experience with RF test equipment

Physical Requirements

Office or industrial environment. Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances. Lifting and moving materials may be required.

HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.

Why HII

We build the world's most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America's top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people's safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you'll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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