Sr. RF Engineer Signal Mitigation Systems

Company Overview

ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs cutting edge antenna technologies to keep our joint forces secure, superior and safe. We create and deliver a vast array of products for both military and civilian applications that combine innovative discoveries from companies we’ve acquired, including SI2 Technologies and AQYR, whose technologies complement and enhance our trusted systems. Our capabilities span from Electronic Warfare and Military Communications to Radar and Satellite Systems. For more than 60 years, ARA has provided our military with unparalleled information, improved situational awareness, immediate threat detection and precision targeting.

From ideation to installation, ARA supplies unique antenna systems in both high-volume and smaller quantities to meet our customers’ needs and ensure success. Our US locations have fully staffed outdoor antenna test ranges, engineers, and on-site manufacturing lines and machine shops.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Sr. RF Engineer Signal Mitigation Systems (SMS). They will work individually with our team’s engineers, management and subcontractors to develop competitive solutions for contract R&D and product development proposals.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop RF/Microwave SMS solutions to meet requirements using steady-state modeling and dynamic modeling; assess cost, risk, and compliance for the solution; and ensure all design work has been validated and thoroughly documented prior to release.
• Assess product performance against requirements through direction of verification/validation testing, evaluation of compliance matrix, and failure mode analysis.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines as required and appropriate to coordinate systems activities and ensure thorough, accurate documentation of those activities.
• Work in an integrated product team to incorporate SMS solutions into products including participation in the assessment of performance.
• Communicate challenges, approaches, and results both within the team with customers, and support the Project Line Manager in setting and meeting costs and schedules.
• Maintain knowledge of state-of-the-art signal mitigation system solutions through participation in professional organizations, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and engaging in educational opportunities.

Position Qualifications

Competency Statement(s)

• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
• Communication - Ability to clearly communicate and interact with others.
• Decision Making - Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions.
• Employee Management - Defines responsibilities, motivates employees, delegates well.
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
• Initiative - Ability to take on task before being asked.
• Leadership - Provides strong leadership, sets a good example, skilled decision maker, motivator, and encourager.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.

Requirements

• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Proven track record of solving complex RF and microwave electronic design challenges.
• Technical expertise in the area of radar cross section (RCS) reduction for radomes and antennas
• Demonstrated experience in analysis, design, and testing of RF materials, subsystems, and systems, especially for DoD applications, radars, low observables (LO) and signal mitigation systems.
• Experience developing models and simulations for low observable systems using codes such as HFSS, CST, MATLAB
• “Hand’s on” experience in fabrication process development, testing and characterization of LO components, subsystems, and systems.
• Ability to support concurrent activities and tasks in multiple programs.
• Experience in writing, winning, and executing R&D contracts and grants for DoD and/or other US government agencies.
• Ability to work with Defense Prime Contractors and DoD SMEs
• Understanding of electromagnetic fundamentals.
• Experience in the application of design of experiments (DOE) methodologies
• Ability to work in an integrated product/process team environment.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Ability to travel, as required, to prospective and existing customers and vendors, attend conferences and trade shows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interface with internal and external stakeholders, document and present results, analyses and design efforts

Education

• PhD or MS with 5+ years of experience in RF, microwave frequencies or related.

Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran