RF Systems​/Hardware Engineer

RF Systems / Hardware Engineer

US Citizenship is required. An active TS/SCI w/CI Polygraph is required. Occasional CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required. Annual Base Pay: $150-180k with 25% company funded 401k based off base pay.

DPG Solutions is seeking a qualified and experienced RF Systems / Hardware Engineer to support engineering analysis, baseline management, operations and maintenance, system enhancement, and integration activities for a complex, high-priority operational communications system.

This role is best suited for an engineer with hands-on experience supporting RF ground systems, satellite communications systems, hardware sustainment, troubleshooting, requirements management, and operational system support. The selected candidate will help ensure the successful operation, maintenance, sustainment, and enhancement of hardware associated with mission-critical communications capabilities.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable working across engineering, operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, and system improvement activities. This person should be able to diagnose system issues, collect and analyze diagnostic data, restore system operations, develop workarounds, support new capability development, and provide recommendations that improve system performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.

RF Systems / Hardware Engineer responsibilities include:

• Support operations, maintenance, sustainment, and enhancement of RF ground systems and satellite communications system hardware.
• Provide engineering analysis, baseline management, system enhancement, integration, and operational support.
• Troubleshoot, document, and resolve system outages and other operational issues.
• Collect diagnostic data, analyze system behavior, document discrepancies, and support restoration of system operations.
• Develop workarounds and corrective actions necessary to recover or improve system performance.
• Store, retrieve, manipulate, and analyze data to support troubleshooting, system capability assessments, and requirements analysis.
• Use RF test and diagnostic equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Monitor equipment performance and make required modifications to ensure systems operate in accordance with specifications.
• Generate, analyze, track, and manage system and hardware requirements.
• Develop and maintain schematics, analysis products, block diagrams, system bills of material, and design review packages.
• Support engineering change activities, including design performance and cost trade studies.
• Provide recommendations for new operational concepts, system architecture, system enhancements, and process improvements.
• Support the development and refinement of operational and engineering processes and procedures.
• Support the generation of concepts of operations and provide technical recommendations for system architecture.
• Identify and document RF capability enhancements through white papers, technical recommendations, and other formal submittals.
• Contribute effectively on design teams and provide technical insight to engineering team members.
• Provide occasional after-hours call-in support when required.
• Support occasional CONUS and OCONUS travel, including emergency repair trips with little or no advance notice.
• Work at heights when required and complete applicable safety requirements for antenna or tower training.

Qualifications you must have:

• Prior experience supporting operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, and sustainment of RF ground systems or satellite communications systems.
• Experience in maintaining, repairing, and enhancing mission-critical communications system hardware and related RF/SATCOM infrastructure.
• Proficiency using RF test and diagnostic equipment, including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, Field Fox, and similar tools.
• Experience troubleshooting loss-of-signal issues across antenna, RF, modem, cabling, and signal-processing paths.
• Experience performing periodic maintenance on moveable antenna systems, including familiarity with antenna control units, servos, and related mechanical/electrical subsystems.
• Familiarity with up converters, down converters, modems, encoders, modulators, antenna control units, servos, and related SATCOM/RF components.
• Hands-on experience with Via Sat equipment and AMERGINT modems.
• Strong knowledge of RF cabling, connectors, cable construction, termination, testing, and validation.
• Understanding of signal loss over distance, frequency-dependent cable loss, and cable selection for different frequencies, power levels, environments, and mission applications.
• Experience in collecting diagnostic data, documenting technical issues, supporting discrepancy reporting, identifying root cause, and restoring system operations.
• Experience in generating, analyzing, tracking, and managing technical requirements.
• Experience developing and maintaining RF systems engineering…