Senior Principal Radar Systems Engineer

Description

Leidos Dynetics is seeking a Senior Principal Radar Systems Engineer to join a talented team of engineers and scientists within the RF & Intelligence Solutions Department.

The department's goals include comprehending, exploiting, and evaluating foreign threats. The department performs radio frequency (RF) design, custom hardware builds, algorithm development, and analysis across a variety of both research and development and operational tasks.

The candidate selected for this position will support projects for the DoD, Intelligence Community, and other Prime contractors.

Primary Responsibilities

The Sr. Principal Radar Systems Engineer duties include performing systems requirements evaluation, functional studies, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance.

The candidate will promote development of innovative approaches, solutions, and architecture development. Frequent interaction with the customer through in-process reviews, customer visits and demonstrations are part of the role.

Basic Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering (or related technical discipline) from an ABET accredited institute and seventeen (17+) years of relevant work history is needed.

If candidate has an MS in a related field fifteen (15+) years of relevant work history is needed.

Candidate must have a comprehensive understanding of RF transceiver system architecture and cascade analysis

Candidate should have design experience working in bands from UHF to Ka

Familiarity with software development, integration, and test and as well as requirements development and verification (modeling and simulation background a plus)

Materials, production, and configuration management history is needed

Prior work with Open Air Range integration

Candidate must have experience working with lab test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.

Candidate must understand fundamentals of antenna theory (types, designs, beam patterns, etc.)

Candidate must be a US citizen with eligibility for TS clearance

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to candidates who possess one or more of the following qualifications :

Position requires candidates to be capable of performing in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with a multidisciplinary team.

Junior team mentoring is highly encouraged

The ideal candidate will have hands-on work in developing, documenting, and executing test processes and procedures for electronic and electromechanical products.

Fundamental understanding of DSP concepts (matched filtering, coherent integration, etc.)

Programming in at least one high-level language (MATLAB, C++, Python)

Experience with Linux operating systems

Experience working / integrating RF transceivers with FPGA-based systems.

Experience working with high-speed ADCs and DACs

Candidates with TS clearance with SSBI are preferred but not required

Original Posting Date :

2024-10-18

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $144,300.00 - $260,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.