Communications Electronic Warfare Engineer

Description

Do you enjoy developing and evaluating communication systems to understand their vulnerabilities?

Are you interested in creating new algorithms and techniques that will be implemented on electronic warfare platforms?

Would you like to help design tests, interpret data, and turn results into practical recommendations?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL!

We are seeking a Communications Electronic Warfare Engineer to help characterize communication systems and evaluate their behavior in contested environments to be able to develop countermeasures. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with engineers and scientists to plan test events, analyze data, and use modeling and simulation to guide technical decisions.

Your work will help sponsors understand system capabilities, identify potential limitations, prioritize next steps, and create solutions. Our team partners with government and industry to deliver RF capabilities that support U.S. citizens, service members, and allies.

• Your primary responsibility will be to assess communication systems using analysis, modeling, simulation, and test, with an emphasis on electronic-warfare-relevant applications.
• You will contribute to system analyses by developing algorithms and techniques to be used as electronic countermeasures.
• You will apply communications theory, signal processing, and numerical tools to understand system behavior, estimate technique requirements, and evaluate practical trade-offs.
• You will communicate clear findings to sponsors and teammates, including recommendations for program direction, operational considerations, and areas for further investigation.

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you...

• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field with relevant coursework or experience in communications, signals and systems, RF, or digital signal processing.
• Have at least three years of relevant experience with commercial or military communications systems, RF systems, electronic warfare systems, or related activities.
• Are familiar with signals and systems or digital signal processing concepts, including Fourier transforms, sampling and aliasing, filtering and frequency response, time-frequency analysis, SNR analysis, and related RF analysis products.
• Have experience using MATLAB, Python, or similar numerical tools for modeling, simulation, measurement analysis, or digital signal processing.
• Are able to occasionally travel to off-site government facilities.
• Are able to obtain an interim Secret security clearance by your start date and can ultimately obtain and maintain a TS/SCI-level security clearance and meet SAP eligibility requirements. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you...

• Have experience characterizing communication systems in electronic-warfare-relevant environments, including identifying potential electronic attack approaches or estimating jamming power and technique requirements.
• Have assessed how jamming technique effectiveness requirements translate to platform-level performance, operational effectiveness, or tactics recommendations.
• Bring depth in advanced communications or signal-processing topics, such as spectrograms, wavelets, channel estimation, adaptive modulation and coding, error control coding, or multiple-access techniques.
• Communicate analysis and test outcomes clearly to technical and…