Senior RF Engineer (Radar)

Location: Mullica Hill, New Jersey, United States; hybrid/on-site based on business and program requirements. Travel up to 50% may be required.

Base salary: $165,000–$215,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global contributes RF, hardware, software, and mission expertise to Lyntris, a defense technology company developing sensing and action systems for U.S. and allied defense organizations across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains.

What you will do

• Translate mission and system requirements into RF subsystem requirements, performance budgets, interfaces, design criteria, and verification methods.
• Develop and mature RF and microwave architectures for radar and sensor systems, including antennas, transmit/receive chains, frequency sources, amplifiers, filters, distribution, calibration, and digital interfaces.
• Perform circuit, electromagnetic, antenna, propagation, link-budget, and system-level modeling; analyze phased-array and active electronically scanned array performance where applicable.
• Plan and execute laboratory, integration-site, test-range, and field testing using specialized RF instrumentation; integrate and troubleshoot RF hardware with digital receivers, FPGAs, signal-processing software, and mechanical and thermal assemblies.
• Lead root-cause analysis, performance correlation, verification, qualification, production transition, supplier support, and configuration control across the product lifecycle.
• Serve as the RF subject matter expert in design reviews, customer engagements, technical briefings, manufacturing activities, and multidisciplinary engineering decisions; mentor RF, electrical, systems, integration, test, and technician personnel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, electromagnetics, applied physics, computer engineering, or a closely related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
• At least 12 years of progressively responsible RF or microwave engineering experience, or at least 10 years with a relevant master’s degree. A relevant doctoral degree may substitute for additional experience under company policy.
• Substantial experience designing, analyzing, integrating, testing, or transitioning RF and microwave subsystems for radar, advanced sensors, electronic warfare, communications, missile defense, aerospace, or another complex defense application.
• Experience owning RF technical work across requirements, architecture, detailed design, integration, verification, qualification, production transition, and field support.
• Strong command of transmission lines, impedance matching, S-parameters, noise, nonlinear effects, frequency conversion, filtering, amplification, stability, electromagnetic propagation, and antenna interfaces.
• Experience developing RF budgets, conducting technical trades, interpreting measured data, and connecting component- and subsystem-level performance to mission performance.
• Hands-on experience with RF laboratory instrumentation, debugging, calibration, characterization, and disciplined test methods.
• Proficiency with one or more relevant tools, including Keysight ADS, Cadence AWR, Ansys HFSS, CST Studio Suite, FEKO, MATLAB, Python, Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or equivalent.
• Experience working with systems, digital hardware, firmware, software, signal processing, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, quality, and integration and test disciplines.
• Experience preparing and reviewing requirements, interface documentation, analyses, drawings or schematics, test plans, test reports, and formal design-review materials.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, presentation, interpersonal, facilitation, active-listening, and professional-disagreement skills; ability to make defensible recommendations under incomplete data or constraints.
• Experience briefing customer, program, or executive audiences on complex technical subjects.
• U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. national security clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance are required.

Nice to have

• Master’s or doctoral degree in electrical engineering, RF or microwave engineering, electromagnetics, applied physics, or a related discipline.
• Recent advanced radar, sensor, or electronic warfare experience with direct U.S. Government technical stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with active electronically scanned arrays, phased-array antennas, analog or digital beamforming, array calibration, low-sidelobe design, interference mitigation, or distributed and networked apertures.
• Experience with low-SWaP-C architectures, high-power transmitters, low-noise receivers, transmit/receive modules, RF system-on-chip devices, high-speed converters, or software-defined RF systems.
• Experience with antenna and RF measurement facilities and automated measurement and calibration methods.
• Experience applying MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-810, or equivalent electromagnetic compatibility and environmental qualification standards.
• Experience with modular open systems, open RF and digital interfaces, OpenVPX, SOSA-aligned architectures, or reusable defense electronics frameworks.
• Experience supporting surveillance, fire-control, counter-UAS, maritime, airborne, space, missile-defense, or ISR sensor programs.
• Experience overseeing suppliers, subcontractors, or external design partners and supporting technical solutioning, basis-of-estimate development, or new-product introduction.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid/on-site work is determined by business and program requirements.
• Work may include office, laboratory, manufacturing, integration, field-test, outdoor, industrial, electromagnetic test-range, and operational environments.
• Occasional work outside standard business hours may support integration, troubleshooting, demonstrations, testing, travel, or program milestones.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, short- and long-term disability insurance, 401(k) matching, and an employee assistance program.
• Physical requirements include prolonged computer work, movement through engineering and test environments, operation of specialized equipment, and lifting up to 25 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.