Engineer/Scientist - Radar Systems Engineer (Spectrum)

Location: On-site at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren in Dahlgren, Virginia, United States. U.S. citizenship and the ability to work on-site are required.

Salary: $120,000–$145,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides engineering and scientific support for U.S. government defense programs, including the U.S. Navy’s SPY-6 Radar Program.

What you will do

• Support systems engineering activities for the SPY-6 radar program throughout the system lifecycle.
• Develop, decompose, allocate, and manage radar system and subsystem requirements across hardware and software.
• Maintain system specifications, requirements baselines, capability documents, and interface control documents.
• Apply MBSE methods and tools to system architecture, requirements management, design analysis, and technical decision-making.
• Perform radar architecture, interoperability, spectrum engineering, EMC, electronic protection, waveform, clutter-management, and signal-processing analyses.
• Develop and validate engineering models, analyze radar performance data with MATLAB and laboratory tools, support integration and testing, and prepare technical reports and briefings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, computer, electronics engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics, or a related discipline; engineering degrees must be from a school with an ABET-accredited professional engineering curriculum.
• Four to six years of relevant engineering or scientific experience; advanced education may count toward the experience requirement.
• Experience applying systems engineering principles to complex radar, sensor, electronic warfare, combat-system, or comparable technical systems.
• Experience with requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, system specifications, interface definition, and MBSE methods and tools.
• Experience conducting analyses involving radar, RF, spectrum, or electromagnetic systems and preparing technical reports, analyses, and presentations.
• Current DoD Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one; U.S. citizenship and on-site work at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren are required.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics, or another STEM discipline.
• Experience with the SPY-6 radar program or advanced naval radar programs.
• Experience with radar signal processing, waveform development, clutter management, electronic protection, MATLAB, or MBSE tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler, MagicDraw, or Rhapsody.
• Experience supporting Navy or Department of Defense acquisition, systems engineering, research and development, or model verification and validation activities.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time engineering role supporting a U.S. Navy defense program.
• Work is performed on-site at the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren.
• Responsibilities include collaboration with Government program managers and technical stakeholders.