Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer
- Employer
- Chenega MIOS
- Location
- Reston, Virginia
- Posted
- May 24, 2023
- Closes
- Jun 18, 2023
- Ref
- 26666
- Function
- Engineer
- Industry
- Government and Public Services
- Hours
- Full Time
Summary
Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer
Reston, Virginia
The Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer will support a space and counter space program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Teleworking Details
Travel up to 15% locally, CONUS, or OCONUS.
Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Native preference under PL 93-638.
We participate in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program
Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer
Reston, Virginia
The Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer will support a space and counter space program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems.
Responsibilities
- Assist the program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems with Subject Matter Expertise.
- Conduct propagation modeling and analysis for communications, bistatic, multi-static, and monostatic
- Provide link budget analysis assuming standard propagation losses, atmospheric effects, environmental effects, and circuit effects.
- Conduct RF systems engineering and reverse
- Design, develop, produce, analyze, integrate, test, and deploy digital MASINT receiver applications.
- Plan and execute construction projects and deployments.
- Build transmitters and receivers for communications satellite systems and RF systems.
- Assist with the preparation of government CDRLs as requested by the Project Lead.
- Provide pre-deployment, and post-deployment support of current and future SCS technical collection capabilities, including but not limited to:
- Support system development, validation, verification testing, and acceptance.
- Support to pre-deployment surveys.
- Support to logistics, planning, and execution of asset installation.
- Fabrication and Field Engineering support.
- Maintenance and decommissioning of forward-deployed assets.
- Complete daily time recording as required in compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Complete annual training by contract and company policies and procedures.
- Travel up to 15% locally, CONUS, or OCONUS.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent is required.
- Bachelor of Science in a related field like Electrical Engineering is strongly preferred.
- 9+ years of related experience that demonstrates:
- A strong proficiency with RF communications or radar systems in system development and acquisition programs.
- Planning and executing construction projects and deployments.
- Fixing RF equipment in less-than-ideal conditions.
- Designing and building transmitters/receivers for communications satellite systems and RF systems.
- Satellite radio design, satellite ground system design, and operations.
- Understanding RF feeds across the spectrum, aperture design, phased arraying, and similar.
- Must be able to provide link budget analysis assuming standard propagation losses, and atmospheric, environmental, and circuit effects.
- Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain an SCI is required.
- Must pass CI polygraph and be granted SCI eligibility to start.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must be able to maintain a TS/SCI for the lifecycle of the contract.
- Ability to provide expertise for RF systems, receivers, digitizers, and hardware that operates from 10 MHz to 40 GHz RF spectrum preferred.
- Experience in designing, developing, producing, analyzing, integrating, testing, and deploying digital MASINT receiver applications to include low noise amplification, filtering, circuit isolation, timing and clocking techniques, high-speed digital sampling techniques, onboard data processing using FPGA, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), programmable logic devices (PLD), analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), Digital-to analog converters (DACs), and similar preferred.
- Experience in designing, developing, producing, analyzing, integrating, testing, evaluating, and deploying low and high-power transmission systems, including combining networks, transmit/receive modules (TR modules), traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWAs), Solis State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), and similar preferred.
- Must have strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize.
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks with time-related constraints in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to self-start and work independently or as a team.
- Ability to travel locally up to 15% with occasional CONUS or OCONUS travel for approximately one week in duration doing fieldwork.
Teleworking Details
Travel up to 15% locally, CONUS, or OCONUS.
Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Native preference under PL 93-638.
We participate in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program