Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer

Employer
Chenega MIOS
Location
Reston, Virginia
Posted
May 24, 2023
Closes
Jun 28, 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
  • 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.

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