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RF Systems Engineer

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Booz Allen Hamilton
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-09
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Test Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
RF Systems Engineer

The Opportunity:

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution.  As a leader in RF systems engineering, we’re looking for you to solve complex challenges and shape RF collection, geolocation, and EW systems by providing technical leadership for our RF product development team.

Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. Share your expertise through leadership and mentoring, while broadening your skillset into areas like quantum sensing and unmanned systems.

What You’ll Work On:

Develop and maintain system-level requirements for RF collection systems, geolocation systems, digital radio frequency memory, and special communications systems, ensuring traceability from mission concept of operations through subsystem specifications.

Conduct trade studies and analyses to evaluate design alternatives, performance margins, and technical feasibility.

Perform advanced RF design modeling using electromagnetic (EM) and RF simulation tools to optimize performance, signal integrity, and link budgets.

Lead concept development, system architecture, and detailed design of integrated RF systems, connecting custom hardware modules with software-defined radio (SDR) and digital signal processing (DSP) layers.

Drive the integration, testing, and debugging of RF systems across various hardware, firmware, and operating systems.

Author a test plan, and lead system validation and verification of the system requirements.

Serve as the primary technical interface for multidisciplinary teams and government clients, providing strategic mentorship to junior engineers.

Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical performance measurement (TPM) tracking throughout the program lifecycle.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have: 8+ years of experience in RF engineering and systems engineering focused on the design, development, integration, and testing of custom or COTS-based RF hardware and software systems

Experience with advanced RF simulation platforms such as Ansys STK, HFSS, FEKO, or MATLAB, link budget and link analysis, RF HW designs, and DSP algorithms

Experience leading Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) and Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), test readiness reviews, and final acceptance test reviews

Experience performing trade studies or analysis of alternatives

Experience creating marketing whitepapers, proposal technical volume materials, and project technical reports

Knowledge of engineering documentation processes, including creating systems requirements documents and test plans

Ability to present technical solutions clearly to stakeholders TS/SCI clearance

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Nice If You Have:

Experience with Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) principles, SDRs, and open standards such as SOSA and VITAPossession of strong collaborative skills

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Systems Engineering Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave,…
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