Senior Embedded Systems Engineer — GPS​/Anti‑Jam Focus

Mayflower is a leading provider of innovative, highly reliable GPS SAASM (Selective Availability Anti‑Spoofing Modules) receivers, anti‑jam technologies, and wireless communications solutions and services for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and for international defense markets. Mayflower is the only U.S.‑owned small business in the SAASM, MGUE (Military GPS User Equipment), anti‑jam industry and consistently out‑performs our competitors. Mayflower is growing, enabling us to provide an even broader array of advanced products and services within U.S. and foreign government markets.

* All Positions offered at Mayflower Communications Company, Inc. require United States Citizenship.

Mayflower Communications Company is a technology leader in the research and development of GPS (Global Positioning System) related hardware and software, including specialized receivers, anti‑jam systems, and other advanced products for government and commercial markets. Our ongoing work in high performance anti‑jam solutions and integrated communication/navigation systems continues to create career opportunities for talented individuals interested in the development of cutting‑edge technologies.

Mayflower seeks a Principal Antenna Engineer to develop GNSS multi‑element antenna array designs to support Mayflower GNSS anti‑jam products. This applicant should have the ability to design, model, and analyze multi‑element arrays of monopoles, loops, dipoles, and other innovative microwave element structures. Antenna modeling expertise with HFSS is desired. The candidate must have experience designing impedance‑matched antennas and tuning circuits to impedance match antenna arrays over multiple bands, as well as modeling and measuring antenna active impedance.

Experience in GNSS bands is a plus. The candidate must have experience designing antennas for fabrication and maturing them into a final product. Experience in RF system‑level design including LNAs, mixers, filters, amplifiers, PLLs, VCOs, I/Q modulators, and RF dividers is also a plus.

Proficiency with laboratory measurements and equipment such as network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, noise figure analyzers, and power meters is required. The candidate must also be proficient with measuring antenna patterns in an anechoic chamber.

Required Skills and

Education:

• S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with experience in electromagnetics and antenna design, modeling, and development. Responsibilities will be commensurate with the level of education and experience.
• Proficiency with anechoic chamber antenna pattern measurements and laboratory measurements using equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, noise figure analyzers, power meters, and oscilloscopes is expected.
• Antenna modeling and design experience.
• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD clearance.

Mayflower Communications provides competitive salaries and benefits, tuition reimbursement, 401(k), profit sharing plan and health/dental/life/disability insurance. We are an equal opportunity employer.

We are looking for a highly motivated and qualified individual interested and capable of contributing to furthering Mayflower’s integrated GPS, inertial sensors, vision/visual‑aided, and other navigation sensor design and advanced technologies for the emerging markets.

The job involves research, design and development in the area of GPS and GPS/INS/vision sensor‑based navigation filters for real‑time implementation in resilient PNT (position, navigation and timing) systems when GPS is challenged and/or denied. The candidate is expected to come up with better algorithms/techniques in this area and evaluate their performance through simulations. The ideal candidate will also provide support in real‑time implementations of these algorithms on the target platforms involving digital signal processors and general‑purpose microprocessors.

Although the current job requires design/analyses experience in GPS/INS/vision‑based navigation filter design techniques, the successful candidate is expected to…