NAVWAR Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

JST is currently seeking a NAVWAR Engineer to join our team.

This is a full-time position at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM. JST offers a full benefit package, a collaborative work environment and strong company culture.

Veterans and military spouses are encouraged to apply.

In support of the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) contract, you will be a part of our team's efforts to empower the Department of Defense's navigation warfare (NAVWAR) mission ensuring positioning, navigation and timing superiority.

Our mission is to provide combatant commanders and joint force commanders with subject matter expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR by providing knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR Order of Battle and PNT-related successes and threats.

NAVWAR Engineer Responsibilities

• Modeling and Simulation SME provides executive-level insight to NAVWAR engineering support.
• Provide research and development of multi-function small form factor payloads for completing NAVWAR-based missions.
• Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic sensing effects for NAVWAR payloads.
• Utilize EW signal processing algorithms that enable threat detection and identification for employing countermeasures.
• Develop systems to support GPS system hardening to prevent NAVWAR effects on blue force systems
• Develop RF hardware and software solutions for integrating EW, Comms, and Radar missions into a small form factor payload.
• Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across different platforms (i.e. manned and unmanned, high altitude ISR, ALE, etc.

Investigate sensing approaches with passive modes.

• Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware portions of software defined radio frameworks
• Reverse engineer existing NAVWAR signal processing solutions
• Synthesize and allocate system requirements, and derive requirements to ensure the system architecture is fully defined, understood, and compliant to mission needs
• Support development and implementation of client requirements for RF solutions including services, products, technologies and capabilities which encompass airborne mission environments.
• Performs Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testing on systems that can be impacted by denial / deception of PNT / GPS
• Support technical reviews of vendor hardware and software products and deliverables, interface development and development of software algorithms and models for simulation.
• Research of the state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms.
• Work with customers (both internal and external to JNWC) to help integrate solutions into a wide variety of applications and use cases
• Debug, test, and validate our capabilities using both unit tests as well as scenarios reported by the JNWC or JNWC Customers

NAVWAR Engineer Qualifications

• From 3 to 10 Yrs. Relevant experience
• Must have prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles
• BS in an engineering discipline or a related field.

NAVWAR Engineer Desired Qualifications

• Professional Engineer License (PE) for senior level
• MS Degree

Required Clearances and Screenings

• MUST have an active TS / SCI security clearance
• MUST be able to pass a US Government Security Clearance

About Joint Strategic Technologies (JST)

No objective is beyond reach! Joint Strategic Technologies (JST) enables successful mission outcomes from the back office to the battlefield.

Our team includes leading experts from military, government and the private sector, all working together to help federal customers make a difference.

Our goal is to Elevate the Impact that our employees have on our customers and treat every employee as a valued member of our team.

JST empowers employees to make decisions and take-action, thus improving overall organizational growth and employee development.

Culture isn't something you talk about. It's something you do. JST is committed to creating a positive environment 'that reaches beyond work and careers' to support every employee's professional and personal objectives.

JST values the well-being of every employee and encourages healthy lifestyles, family activities and community involvement.

JST is a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

JST will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

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