Staff Engineer, Electronics – Hardware Integration

Responsibilities

• • Perform as a member of an interdisciplinary team developing novel hardware integration and testing for developmental NGAS programs
• • Contribute to development of hardware subsystems by developing functional architectures, analyzing performance, managing requirements and interfaces, and verifying/validating allocated requirements
• • Design, develop, build, and test electrical components, equipment, systems, and networks with key suppliers
• • Translate customer requirements into hardware specifications
• • Collaborate with engineers and program stakeholders to integrate avionics and mission subsystems
• • Work with hardware, software, and firmware engineers
• • Develop supplier procurement specifications and statements of work, and review supplier development artifacts
• • Document designs using detailed schematics, diagrams, and specifications
• • Support development and integration of hardware subsystems and components
• • Develop integrated hardware integration and test
• • Perform functional and performance analyses and detailed trade studies
• • Estimate component, subsystem, and system performance according to governmental and commercial standards
• • Configure, test, document, and troubleshoot avionics and mission systems
• • Travel up to 10%

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university and 12 years of related professional/military engineering experience; OR Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related professional/military engineering experience; OR Ph.D. and 8 years of related professional/military engineering experience
• Knowledge of electromagnetics in the RF spectrum (VHF through Ka bands)
• Familiarity with one or more RF sensing modalities and their applications
• Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing RF equipment for airborne platforms
• Active U.S. Government-issued Top Secret SCI Security Clearance and Special Program Access (SAP) within a reasonable period determined by the company
• U.S. Citizenship required for positions with a government clearance
• Preferred:
  Experience in RF/EW applications, including MATLAB, Python, and/or C/C++, tracking and algorithm development
• Preferred:
  Experience designing, developing, integrating, and/or testing EW or Radar subsystems for airborne platforms
• Preferred:
  Experience with RF antenna and component design and performance analysis
• Preferred:
  Experience with model-based systems engineering using Cameo or similar SysML tools
• Preferred:
  Experience generating and managing requirements in DOORS
• Preferred:
  Experience with performance analysis using MATLAB and Excel or similar tools
• Preferred:
  Familiarity with Atlassian collaboration tools (Jira and Confluence)
• Preferred:
  Experience in supplier/subcontract management
• Preferred:
  Experience developing supplier documentation, performance-based specifications, and statements of work
• Preferred:
  Knowledge of NGAS Sector Engineering procedures
• Preferred:
  Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and conducting technical evaluations
• Preferred:
  Experience decomposing, deriving, allocating, and tracing requirements from system to component level
• Preferred:
  Experience working on multidisciplinary teams and writing technical proposals
• Preferred:
  Knowledge of systems engineering design methods, including requirements analysis and flow-down, specification derivation, and interface control documentation

Demonstrates expertise in hardware integration and testing, with a strong focus on RF equipment design and performance analysis. Proficient in managing requirements and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to deliver complex avionics and mission subsystems.

• RF Equipment Design
• Hardware Integration
• Requirements Management
• MATLAB Programming
• Top Secret SCI Security Clearance

• Electromagnetics Knowledge
• RF Sensing Modalities
• Performance Analysis
• Subsystem Testing
• Technical Documentation

• Collaboration
• Interdisciplinary Teamwork
• Communication

• Top Secret SCI Security Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship

• NGAS Programs
• RF/EW Applications
• Supplier Management
• Systems Engineering
• Technical Proposals

• MATLAB
• Python
• C/C++
• DOORS
• Cameo