Senior RF Engineer (Radar)

Location: Mullica Hill, NJ, US; hybrid or onsite based on business and program requirements. Up to 50% travel may be required. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance are required.

Base salary: $165,000–$215,000 annually.

Company

Lyntris is a defense technology company developing integrated hardware, software, and mission systems for sensing and responding to threats across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains.

What you will do

• Translate mission and system requirements into RF subsystem requirements, architectures, performance budgets, interfaces, design criteria, and verification methods.
• Design and review antennas, apertures, transmit and receive chains, frequency sources, amplifiers, filters, RF distribution, calibration functions, microwave circuits, assemblies, and interfaces.
• Develop and correlate circuit, electromagnetic, antenna, propagation, link-budget, and system-level models using engineering tools and measured data.
• Plan and execute laboratory, integration-site, test-range, and field activities using specialized RF instrumentation; troubleshoot complex performance issues and test anomalies.
• Lead verification, qualification, production transition, supplier support, configuration management, and technical documentation across the product lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, customer briefings, design-review support, and evidence-based recommendations on RF performance, risks, and tradeoffs.

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 knowledge 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, and facilitation skills, including the ability to make defensible recommendations with incomplete data or constraints.
• Demonstrated experience briefing customer, program, or executive audiences on complex technical subjects.
• U.S. citizenship and current possession of, or ability to obtain and maintain, U.S. Government national security eligibility and a Top Secret clearance.

Nice to have

• Master’s or doctoral degree in electrical engineering, RF or microwave engineering, electromagnetics, applied physics, or a related discipline.
• Recent experience with advanced radar, sensor, or electronic warfare programs and U.S. Government technical stakeholders.
• Experience with active electronically scanned arrays, phased-array antennas, beamforming, array calibration, low-sidelobe design, interference mitigation, or distributed 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 or 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, OpenVPX, SOSA-aligned architectures, open RF and digital interfaces, or reusable defense electronics frameworks.
• Experience supporting surveillance, fire-control, counter-unmanned aircraft, maritime, airborne, space, missile-defense, or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance programs.
• Experience overseeing suppliers, subcontractors, or external design partners and supporting technical solutioning, basis-of-estimate development, or new-product introduction.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across integrated design, build, and test capabilities supporting defense programs.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with optional HSA and FSA.
• Base and voluntary life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, and an employee assistance program.
• 401(k) matching.
• Work may include laboratory, manufacturing, integration, field-test, outdoor, industrial, electromagnetic test-range, and operational environments; lifting up to 25 pounds and personal protective equipment may be required.