Lead Radar Engineer

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The Defense Sector is seeking a highly qualified Lead Radar Engineer to support the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Reagan Test Range (RTR) Operations, Sustainment, Improvement, and Engineering (ROSIE) program. RTR is a Department of Defense Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) supporting two primary mission areas:
Space Operations and Test and Evaluation of DoD weapons systems, including offensive and defensive missiles, hypersonic systems, and space testing. RTR missions are executed from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the RTR Operations Center-Huntsville (ROC-H), using sophisticated radar, telemetry, optical, command-and-control, and mission systems.

The Lead Radar Engineer will serve as a senior technical authority for the operation, sustainment, performance, modernization, integration, and mission readiness of RTR radar instrumentation. The successful candidate will combine deep radar engineering expertise with hands‑on problem solving and technical leadership to ensure RTR radar systems deliver the accuracy, availability, reliability, and data quality required for missile test and space operations.

The Lead Radar Engineer will work across operations, maintenance, systems engineering, hardware and software engineering, mission planning, data analysis, cybersecurity, and Improvements & Modernization (I&M) teams to resolve complex radar problems and transition improvements into the operational baseline. The position requires an engineer who can move comfortably between mission performance, radar phenomenology and data, hardware/software troubleshooting, systems engineering, sustainment, and modernization.

This position is contingent upon contract award to Leidos.

Serve as the program’s lead radar engineering subject matter expert, providing technical leadership for RTR radar operations, sustainment, troubleshooting, modernization, integration, and test. Analyze radar performance and mission data to identify performance degradation, anomalous behavior, emerging technical issues, and opportunities to improve radar capability, availability, reliability, maintainability, and data quality. Lead technical troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis of complex radar hardware, software, RF, signal‑processing, timing, control, instrumentation, and system‑interface problems;

develop and drive corrective actions through verification and closure. Ensure radar systems meet required mission performance, calibration, accuracy, sensitivity, and operational availability requirements and provide the technical analysis necessary to substantiate system readiness. Evaluate radar metric, imaging, and signature data and support mission Quick Look analysis, post‑mission assessment, lessons learned, and identification of radar performance issues and corrective actions. ROSIE requires post‑mission analysis of instrumentation performance and Quick Look data products.

Analyze radar reliability, availability, and…