Communications Systems Engineer

Communications Systems Engineer

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. K  is seeking a mid‑level Communications Systems Engineer to support the design, development, integration, test, and vulnerability assessment of military communications systems in laboratory, simulation, and operationally relevant environments.

The role focuses on RF and non‑RF communications systems, including waveforms, datalinks, protocol behavior, interfaces, and end‑to‑end system performance. The engineer will work across hardware, software, RF, networking, and test boundaries to develop requirements, support lab design, develop and integrate waveforms and communications protocols, and evaluate system behavior using representative equipment, test data, and technical analysis.

• Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work:
  Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

• Design and document communications system architectures, lab configurations, interfaces, and test environments
• Research, select, and integrate communications hardware, software, RF equipment, networks, datalink systems, and test infrastructure
• Develop system requirements, interface descriptions, verification approaches, test plans, and supporting design documentation
  
  Develop, integrate, and evaluate waveforms, communications protocols, message flows, and data exchange behavior
• Assess communications systems and architectures for vulnerabilities, limitations, interoperability issues, and technical risk
• Execute lab, HIL/SIL, modeling and simulation, field test, exercise, and interoperability activities for communications systems
• Document test results, findings, and recommendations for technical reviews and customer deliverables

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Systems Engineering
• 3-8 years of experience in systems engineering, integration, test, evaluation, vulnerability assessment, or development of communications or other complex technical systems
• Experience developing or using requirements, interface descriptions, verification matrices, test plans, architecture diagrams, or system design documentation
• Experience integrating or testing systems involving hardware, software, networks, RF equipment, simulators, lab infrastructure, or fielded equipment
• Working understanding of communications behavior across physical, link, network, and logical layers, including waveforms, protocols, message flows, timing, interfaces, routing, or data exchange
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD security clearance

• Experience with military communications systems such as tactical radios, datalinks, SATCOM, IFF, Link 16, CDL, MANET, avionics communications, or related C5
  
  ISR systems
• Experience with RF communications, SDR‑based systems, waveform or protocol development, datalink systems, interoperability testing, vulnerability assessment, or protocol‑level analysis
• Experience designing, configuring, or sustaining communications labs using radios, SDRs, RF test equipment, network equipment, simulators, mission‑system interfaces, or representative fielded equipment
• Familiarity with RF fundamentals such as spectrum, modulation, antennas, link budgets, interference, signal paths, and RF test equipment
• Experience supporting DoD programs, laboratory R&D, acquisition, operational test, or prototyping environments

$100,000 - $140,000 (For Ohio Only). The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

K  is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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