Senior Radar Prototype Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Radar Prototype Engineer with Security Clearance
Location: Victor

Company Overview Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation.

With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

Group Overview:
Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.

Position Summary The Senior Radar Prototype Engineer is responsible for transforming radar research concepts into customer-ready prototypes by integrating reference implementations onto real-world radar hardware platforms. This role focuses on radar system integration, embedded development, and rigorous acceptance testing to ensure performance, reliability, and reproducibility. Acting as the bridge between R&D and field deployment, the Prototype Engineer owns radar hardware bring-up, lab and field testing, and optimization for real-time constraints, enabling RADLAB to deliver validated, high-performance radar solutions.

Role and Responsibilities Own system integration: adapt reference implementations to embedded radar hardware constraints while optimizing for latency, throughput, and power. Implement firmware and other embedded code to run R&D algorithms on target platforms. Build and execute lab and field acceptance tests using golden vectors; produce detailed demo and validation reports. Manage BOM, hardware bring-up, test rigs, bench testing, and CI/CD pipelines for hardware acceptance.

Lead lab testing in coordination with FRANCISLAB Test and Evaluation Manager. Drive performance tuning, fixed-point/quantization tradeoffs, and real-time scheduling. Provide early feedback on practical constraints and assumptions to the Radar R&D Engineer and Head of RADLAB. Coordinate customer demos and collect integration feedback for iterative improvement in coordination with the FRANCISLAB Test and Evaluation Manager. Skills and Experience BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or 8–10 years of equivalent industry experience, including at least 5 years in applied radar systems.

Proven experience transitioning radar software from engineering models to deployed radar hardware platforms, including integration, testing, and validation. Strong radar systems engineering skills: embedded C/C++, RTOS, and real-time constraints. Additional FPGA familiarity is a differentiator.

Experience with radar hardware bring-up, test fixtures, lab measurement tools, and RF chamber testing for radar/ELINT/communications. Proficiency in debugging across software/hardware boundaries. Experience in creating acceptance test automation and CI/CD for hardware targets. Strong communication skills for reporting integration risks and mitigation strategies.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications U.S. Citizenship
Ability to obtain and maintain a TS security clearance.
Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional team environments. Commitment to reproducibility, documentation, and…