Essential Functions
Lead radar architecture development and technical roadmaps, aligning simulation and algorithm development with mission requirements and program objectives.
Develop, integrate, and validate high-fidelity radar models spanning RF front ends, transmit/receive chains, antennas, propagation, target signatures, operational environments, and signal processing.
Design and evaluate radar waveforms and processing algorithms, including pulse compression, Doppler processing, beamforming, detection, and tracking.
Provide technical expertise in electronic protection algorithms, including waveform design, adaptive interference cancellation, and cognitive approaches.
Model RF impairments and hardware effects, including noise figure, gain and loss, phase noise, nonlinearities, dynamic range, I/Q imbalance, and channel mismatch.
Conduct performance assessments, trade studies, sensitivity analyses, using simulations under realistic operating conditions.
Verify and validate models and algorithms against analytical predictions, laboratory measurements, and field-test data.
Collaborate with systems, RF hardware, software, integration, and test teams to transition algorithms from simulation into implementable solutions.
Lead technical reviews and improve engineering processes, modeling methods, simulation tools, and reusable analysis capabilities.
Mentor engineers and provide technical direction across RF signal processing, algorithm development, modeling, and simulation.
Present technical findings, risks, and recommendations to engineering leadership, internal and external customers, and program stakeholders.
Support proposal development, including technical approaches, cost estimates, schedules, resource needs, and execution plans.
Travel up to 10%, as required.
Qualifications
Active US Secret security clearance.
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years of prior radar systems experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior radar systems experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior radar systems experience.
Preferred Additional Skills
Advanced degree in related technical discipline.
Experience with phased-array or active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, digital beamforming, or multichannel receiver architectures.
Experience in design, coding, and optimization of GPU-accelerated processing algorithms using NVIDIA CUDA.
