Photonics Engineer

Responsibilities

• Research adversary warfare systems technology trends and techniques
• Participate in defining requirements for EW compact payloads
• Apply knowledge of adversary technologies and notional blue‑force concepts of operations to define requirements for EW compact payloads
• Derive RF requirements for mixed analog, digital and photonics design and translate into photonics specifications
• Apply novel trends in photonics RF such as wideband receivers and transmitters, oscillators, low‑noise amplifiers, high‑power amplifiers, filters, and photonics computation to EW applications including receive, process, and transmit
• Work with multi‑mode (mixed analog/digital/photonics) integrated circuit designers to develop requirements and specifications for fabricated and heterogeneously integrated electronics such as photonics integrated circuits
• Work with ARL photonics experts and utilize lab equipment to develop physical bench‑level and lab demonstrations of photonics EW applications
• Work with ARL manufacturing experts to integrate photonics RF into heterogeneous structures consisting of conformal antennas, photonics, analog and digital electronics, bio‑inspired computing and emerging energy storage layers

• Recent graduate of PhD program from an R1 university with specialization in Photonics RF to include receivers, transmitters, mixers, filters, oscillators, and photonics computation
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• US Citizen with ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Completion of Post‑Doc
• Experience with EW applications
• Working knowledge of MATLAB or Python
• Interest in advancing and prioritizing national security technologies