Mission Application Engineer (NAVWAR)

Radiance Technologies, a 100% employee-owned company, is seeking candidates for a Mission Application Engineer to support a U.S. Space Army program. This position requires a talented and experienced Mission Application Engineer with experience in Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) to contribute to a larger multidisciplined engineering team to support the analysis/feasibility, planning/requirements, design, system development, testing, deployment, maintenance, evaluation, and disposition/disposal of a spacecraft payload. The Mission Application Engineer will design, simulate, synthesize and test payload designs and be required to apply out-of-the-box thinking to develop novel, non-traditional designs. Must work well in a small, fast-paced and mission-driven environment.

Desired Qualifications

• MS in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other relevant fields
• Modeling and Simulation SME provides executive-level insight to NAVWAR engineering support.
• Experience in formulating operational concepts; performing mission, functional, cost-benefit and risk analysis; developing signal processing architecture and overall system architecture.
• 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.

Required Skills/Experience

• US citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance

• BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other relevant fields
• Knowledge of RF hardware systems and testing equipment.
• Seven (6+) years NAVWAR experience
• Experience implementing complex designs in Verilog/VHDL for FPGA platforms
• Hands-on experience with JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers and protocol analyzers
• Knowledge of Linux and Petalinux.
• Will require innovation, quick learning, excellent communication skills and adaptive thinking.
• C/C++ or other embedded programming languages

Required Tool Experience

• Microsoft Office Products

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