NAVWAR Engineer

Position: NAVWAR Engineer

Location: Albuquerque, NM

Clearance: Top Secret

Our great client currently has an opening for a NAVWAR Engineer in the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) to help empower the Department of Defense's navigation warfare (NAVWAR) mission ensuring positioning, navigation and timing superiority. Serve a s a member of a team providing 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. You will support the Government with the integration, at the theater strategic level, of C4, cyber, and cyberspace operations into JNWC's strategic and operational objectives.

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

Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and 3 years in Radio Frequency
• Top Secret clearance
• Experience conducting multi-discipline intelligence analysis